Downtown Camden, long regarded as an urban wasteland as soon as the sun goes down, will get two new restaurants this year, as well as a pop-up restaurant on the waterfront, city officials say.
The Newtown Kitchen & Lounge, forced to move from its location on MLK Boulevard last year due to a construction project, will reopen this spring on the 300 block of Market in a bigger space with a liquor license.
A few doors away, plans are in the works to open a franchise of Marino’s Bistro to Go, a chain of casual Italian eateries started by Collingswood chef Jim Marino. The restaurants will be a block from Hank’s, a pub that reopened last summer on Second and Market.
And several blocks away, city officials are developing a pop-up space for the waterfront that could showcase a revolving series of local restaurants.