Restaurants

The closure comes just months after The Circuit’s owner sold its building to a local developer. The Circuit was among the first trendy, entertainment-focused bars to arrive in Scott’s Addition.

“I wanted the customer to tell me, ‘Man, that’s not just a Philly. That’s a bad-ass Philly,” founder Mohamed Salama said of the origins of the restaurant’s name.

Fueled in part by his winnings from the HBO Max show “The Big Brunch,” Daniel Harthausen will open his first full-time restaurant in the space where Carytown Cupcakes currently resides.

Its future home, Jewett-Bass Hall, is a two-story building that dates to 1870. The new restaurant’s name is a reference to the year the structure was built.

“There’s been a lot of versions of Sincero, but this is the first time we’ll actually get to open a door,” Karen Negvesky said of the business, which started as a pop-up in 2019.

The restaurant at 800 Cleveland St. in the Museum District was sold last week to a first-time restaurant owner who’s trying out a career change after years in the transportation industry.

The new location will open in an old Pet Valu and would be the wing joint’s fifth location in the region, adding to two others in Chesterfield County and two in Henrico.

The space has sat vacant and been boarded up since Asado’s closure in 2020, but local entrepreneur Jon Lillyman recently leased it for his new concept, El Taco Guapo. 

As a multibuilding project in Scott’s Addition approaches the finish line, particulars about one of its restaurant tenants have been revealed. 

The new from-scratch coffee shop shows the chain’s continued appetite for sites in the western areas of the Richmond region. Its first free-standing store in Goochland is also in the works.