Photography by Adam Englehart

John Longacre knows cool.

While most developers and real estate investors were running far, far away from the Point Breeze section of South Philadelphia, Longacre was busy opening one of its coolest restaurants, American Sardine Bar. Local IPAs. Vegan fried chicken sandwiches. Sweet-potato falafel. Twentysomethings with tattoos. Seven years after American Sardine opened, it’s hard to find a spot to lock up your bike most nights.

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