In a recent restaurant report titled “Mapping out our favorite hoagies, and more | Let’s Eat“, The Philadelphia Inquirer included a snippet about The Fort Kitchen & Bar in Fort Washington.
The family-friendly bar-restaurant located at 325 Pennsylvania Avenue opened on Friday, November 22.
From The Inquirer’s coverage:
The Fort Kitchen & Bar. Fort Washington is not exactly a restaurant destination, perhaps because Ambler is less than 10 minutes away. You might argue that every town needs at least one neighborhood bar-restaurant that’s suitable for lunch, a drink and apps over happy hour, dinner on nights you don’t feel like cooking, and possibly a late-ish-night snack.
Enter the Fort, which opened a few months ago in what was a Friendly’s on Pennsylvania Avenue across from the Regional Rail station. The crew from Jasper’s Backyard, a similarly family-friendly spot in Conshohocken, is behind the smart-looking bar, loaded with TVs and separated from the dining rooms by glass.
The Fort has a something-for-everyone menu, studded with vegan and a few gluten-free items. It includes smash burgers (available as singles, doubles, and triples), flatbreads, a fried chicken sandwich, and a warm grain bowl with farro, rice, roasted butternut squash, spinach, mushroom, and grape tomato (what you see above was $16, plus $12 for the salmon — and enough food for lunch and dinner).
After 5 p.m., there are a few entrees such as rigatoni Bolognese and eggplant ravioli (both based on pastas from Sorrentino’s, a shop in Ambler), plus the likes of airline chicken, ribs, and blackened salmon. Top ticket is filet, served with harissa-tomato butter over crispy potatoes, blistered cherry tomatoes, and asparagus. There are $12 and $15 cocktails and a decent wine list. Drawback is the draft beer selection — just Miller Lite, Levante Cloudy IPA, Peroni Nastro Azzurro, and Guinness on tap. There are cans and bottles, but this is more of a Stateside crowd, anyway.
The Fort Kitchen & Bar, 325 Pennsylvania Ave, Fort Washington. Hours: 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday, and 11 a.m.- 9 p.m. Sunday. Closed Monday. Wheelchair accessible.
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