Steel City Brewing, a new brewpub helmed by local chef and restaurateur Phil Ferro, is set to open in Coatesville’s original YMCA building located at 132 E Lincoln Hwy later this year, as just one of a few different projects Ferro has lined up to rejuvenate the downtown district.
According to Ferro, the brewpub will be a “multi-functional building,” as the ground floor houses a restaurant and a bar with banquet seating around the perimeter, while the basement will function as a “beerhall-slash-rathskeller concept with pool tables and darts and a dining room for private events.”
What’s more, the brewery itself will also be able to keg and can the beer for Ferro’s other concepts – including Chadd’s Ford Tavern and Kings Tavern – and to make good on Steel City’s exclusive beer agreement with the forthcoming Velodrome and sports complex development.
As for the brewpub’s food program, Ferro says it will be “all the food that people love to drink beer” with, including wings, nachos, and burgers, adding that menu will be “very simple, straightforward food,” as “that’s what the people want.”
Incidentally, Steel City Brewing sits just three doors down from another concept that Ferro recently finalized the details for – 30 Prime Seafood and Chophouse, which will open in the former National Bank of Coatesville building when renovations are complete next year.
And if that weren’t enough, the work that’s going into the bank building concept will be documented on Ferro’s newly established YouTube Channel, Million Dollar Chef.
“The YouTube channel came about because of the buildings – because we wanted to document the revitalization of Coatesville somehow. So it was my idea to brand it the Million Dollar Chef, to show people we’ll take an abandoned building that nobody wanted and turn it into a million dollar property.”
Ferro continues, “Once we get into the construction we’ll start releasing more episodes about why we do things the way we do, how to take a bank building with 18-inch think concrete floors and vaults, and how to transform that into a restaurant.”
To follow along with the Million Dollar Chef and the saga of the National Bank of Coatesville project, amongst others, check out the YouTube channel here.
