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Anastasi Raw Bar opens in Manayunk

The Anastasi seafood family's fourth generation has added a bar-restaurant on Main Street.

    by Michael Klein
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The Anastasi seafood family's fourth generation is casting its net a bit wider.

Four years after adding the BYOB Pescatore in Bala Cynwyd, siblings Mia and Tommy Anastasi and Pescatore general manager Frank Kemp have opened Anastasi Raw Bar in Manayunk.

They're in their early days at 4161 Main St. (215-482-1800), which has been Beast & Ale, Bisou, Gemelli, and MangoMoon in the last several years. It's a light redecoration in the industrial space - whimsical fish-head paintings replacing Beast & Ale's mounted game and subway tiles taking up the wall behind the bar to lend a fish-house feeling. (They've left the home-spun charm at the family's flagship seafood market/eatery at Ninth Street and Washington Avenue in South Philadelphia.)

Anastasi Raw Bar's street-level bar has five beers and a cider on tap, as well as four draft wines, seven cocktails, oyster shooters, wines by the glass and bottle, and other beer in bottles and cans. Cocktail list is here.
Upstairs, there are two dining rooms, with butcher-paper-topped tables. There's a roof deck, too.
The raw bar selections can be ordered by the piece, by way of a paper slip attached to a clipboard. Chef Ken Wallace's menu is not voluminous by any stretch - a half-dozen appetizers, a few salads, and eight entrees, from a lobster roll ($18) to branzino and halbut (each $26). There's chicken and pork belly for landlubbers.

In the early going, it's open every day at 5 p.m.

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    Michael Klein