• The Restaurant Club gets the first bite of the fluffy Japanese batter balls at Maru Global Takoyaki, opening January 25. [Philly Mag]
• One of the founders of Philly Beer Week, Bruce Nichols, will open The Headhouse, a beer bar in the location that once housed Zot. [Beer Radar]
• Meal Ticket has details and an early look at Sidecar Bar owner Adam Ritter’s under-construction Fishtown bar. [Meal Ticket]
• The chef of Cape May’s Ebbitt Room will open a BYOB called Hoof and Fin in the Queen Village space that was last home to Daniel Stern’s Gayle. [Inquirer]