Conshohocken's New Restaurants Are Opening at Addresses Everyone Already Knows

Bread is coming out of 79 Jones Street again. For 51 years the Gambone family's Conshohocken Italian Bakery supplied hundreds of restaurants and shops across the region from that building. When it closed in 2024, those kitchens had to find bread somewhere else. The ovens are now run by Angelo's Baking Co., the bakery arm of the South Philly pizzeria. As MONTCO Today put it in August, getting a loaf still "means knowing someone."

That building fits a pattern that runs through Conshohocken's whole 2026 food calendar. Almost every arrival worth tracking this fall is moving into a space residents already have a name for. That includes the old Pizza Time, the old bakery, the bridal shop on Fayette Street and the Five Guys at Plymouth Square. The handoffs also take longer than the "coming soon" signs suggest.

Pizza Time came down so Rick's Tavern could go up

The fastest handoff on the list took about three years. Rick and Gale Mahoney, both Conshohocken natives, bought Pizza Time/Old Time Saloon in 2023. Through their RG Restaurant Group they have since added Guppy's Good Times and Tony & Joe's Pizzeria. With Kooma, they also opened Kaede Sushi & Noodle in a converted upstairs apartment at Guppy's.

They didn't renovate the old building. Anyone who drove down Maple Street last year saw it demolished and a new restaurant built from the foundation up. In February the group brought in Derek Davis as culinary director. Davis spent about 25 years as a fixture of Manayunk's dining scene, and Inquirer critic Craig LaBan once called him the "King of Manayunk," according to MoreThanTheCurve's March report.

Rick's Tavern held its grand opening on Thursday, May 28, 2026, at 201 W. Seventh Avenue. The new building still serves the old Pizza Time pizza, customizable as before. The rest of the menu is Italian-American tavern food: meatballs, chicken parmesan, a shareable roasted spatchcock chicken, house-made pasta with a daily ravioli, plus hoagies, cheesesteaks and burgers. By September it had outdoor seating too. The dish that got FOX29's attention was the Italian Nachos: pasta chips with braised short rib, fonduta, mozzarella, plum tomatoes, Calabrian chili salsa cruda and scallions.

Rick's has already become a spot on the local calendar. Patch listed a "Witches Night Out" there on October 20.

The bakery that went back to wholesale

The Pizza Time rebuild shows how long a change of hands can take even when a building comes down and goes back up. Jones Street shows a different kind of wait. There, the ovens work and the front counter doesn't.

According to the Inquirer's June report, owner Danny DiGiampietro said the building needs more work before customers can buy at the counter. He didn't say what kind of work. By August there was still no timeline for retail. In the meantime, Angelo's bakes its seeded rolls on Jones Street for its own shops.

The bigger plan is to return the building to its old role. A large Polin oven from Italy is meant to add capacity for kaiser, potato, steak and hoagie rolls headed back out to the same kitchens the Gambone bakery used to supply. That would mean DiGiampietro baking for sandwich shops that compete with his own. He has said he sees that as an opportunity rather than a conflict. Conshohocken bread is already showing up in the city. The Inquirer's fall restaurant forecast notes that chef Chaz Brown will serve his Caribbean fish at Rumblefish, opening on North Third Street, on po'boy-style rolls from Angelo's Bakery in Conshohocken.

An Angelo's restaurant in Conshohocken has been talked about since mid-2025, but 2026 coverage gives no confirmed address or opening date. Late in 2025, MoreThanTheCurve pointed out the practical problem. The bakery sits on a short street with essentially no parking, in a residential zoning district.

Elm Street by the trail is the slowest build on the list

The Garden by Pieri Winery at 127 E. Elm Street is the one project on this list building something new on its land, and it has been the slowest. MoreThanTheCurve first reported the plan in June 2024, ahead of a July zoning hearing on relief for a wine garden and outdoor recreation venue. According to its report on the decision, the board granted relief on August 19, 2024, with three conditions:

• File the parking agreement for the neighboring corporate-office lot and garage, which was leased for customer parking
• Use newer-technology pickleball paddles to cut down on sound
• Secure loose items whenever the venue is closed

The quiet-paddle rule is a detail only a neighborhood ruling would produce, and it tells you how closely the borough considered the courts' neighbors. Ground broke in 2025.

Winery owner Christina Pieri, whose Pieri Winery is in Coopersburg, is developing The Garden with restaurateur Brian Pieri, whose restaurants include StoneRose, Bar Lucca and Cerdo. The Inquirer reported that they planned a year-round indoor-outdoor restaurant beside the Schuylkill River Trail. A wood-fired kitchen will serve brick-oven pizzas, focaccia sandwiches, salads, steaks and fish at lunch and dinner, Tuesday through Sunday. Outside there will be a covered patio, fire tables and a turf area, plus two pickleball courts and two bocce courts.

The target was mid-October. The venue's website still says the food menu is "Coming Soon" and asks visitors to "Check back soon" for court reservations. Its event-request form is already up, for on-premise events and large-party reservations. More than two years have passed since that first June 2024 report. Trail walkers heading down Elm Street can check on its progress from the path. Bar Sera, farther along at 382 E. Elm Street, is already open.

Fayette Street gets one new tenant, not until 2027

Fayette Street itself has one confirmed change of hands on the way. The bridal shop La Bella Moda, at 200 Fayette Street for many years, closed at the end of May. In August, Goodness Bowls signed a lease for the space. Co-founders Sue and Corinne Persichetti plan to use the building as both a café and the company's corporate headquarters. It will be their tenth store and a corporately owned one. The menu runs to açaí, pitaya, green and protein bowls, plus smoothies, juices, toasts and wraps. The projected opening is early 2027, so this one is still months away.

Plymouth Square is trading tenants faster than downtown

The turnover on Ridge Pike moves on a different clock, and it's the clearest contrast to the slow builds above. Federal Donuts & Chicken opened at Plymouth Square Shopping Center in June 2025. It had closed by mid-July 2026, a run of about a year. In the same month, New York-based smash-burger chain 7th Street Burger was reported to have signed a lease in the center. MoreThanTheCurve noted that when the burger lease surfaced, the former Federal Donuts space was the only vacancy that made sense. The exact storefront still hasn't been confirmed. By late September the chain was hiring a general manager and forecasting an opening in late 2026 or early 2027.

A few doors away, NAYA took over the former Five Guys space at 200 Ridge Pike with an opening scheduled for September 25. The location was announced as the Lebanese chain's first suburban Pennsylvania location and its first in the state open seven days a week. The menu is customizable bowls, rolls and salads, with mezze and sides. Nothing Bundt Cakes was added to the center's tenant list in March for the former Happy Maki space. As of August, no work on that space had been seen.

What's left on the October calendar

Conshohocken's big fall dates have already passed. Funfest filled Fayette Street on September 19. Restaurant Week ran September 21 through 27 across 16 restaurants in Conshohocken and West Conshohocken. The borough's Halloween Parade stepped off from Mary Wood Park House on October 17. Two dates are still ahead:

1. Sunday, October 25, noon: a Halloween-themed drag brunch at The Rabbit Hole, 201 West 6th Avenue, per the Patch Conshohocken calendar.
2. Any day now: the first lunch service at 127 E. Elm Street, if The Garden lands close to its mid-October target. The menu and court pages on its website will show when it does.

If you've spent this year watching Pizza Time come down, the bakery windows on Jones Street or the courts going in on Elm Street, the agents at Keller Williams Main Line follow those changes as closely as you do. Our Ardmore office is a short drive away, and we're glad to talk about what the new Conshohocken means for your corner of it.