Neighborhood Watch

Little Baby’s Ice Cream Freezes Out Frankford Ave.; Khyber Taps Into Tsar Power

Fishtown: Little Baby’s Ice Cream’s peeps and friends are performing their tribute act Bruce Ice Cream and the Freeze Street Band tonight at Johnny Brenda’s to help raise money for their forthcoming joint venture with Pizza Brain on Frankford Ave. [Meal Ticket]

Old City: The Khyber brings back TsarPower, its Russian Imperial stout fest on Saturday. The lineup of big, dark and heavy brews that are going on tap is staggering, figuratively speaking, and literally. Beers start pouring at noon. [Grub Street]

City Hall: La Colombe’s cafe near City Hall now sports a vending machine that only dispenses Pure Black. [LaColombeCoffee/Twitter]

Center City: Rather contribute to the city’s blight as its first local outpost comes together, Shake Shack has dressed up the corner at 20th and Sansom with some greenery. [CBS Philly]

Midtown Village: The gaping hole that housed Tweed for a minute on 12th Street reportedly has a new tenant lined up, but it’s neither Jen Carroll nor Luke Palladino. [Insider]

West Philly: Mariposa Co-op’s has its new, larger location up and running at 4824 Baltimore Ave. [Naked Philly]

Chestnut Hill: With the recent addition of Mica, Iron Hill and Heirloom, Chestnut Hill’s restaurant scene is blowing up on Germantown Avenue. [Daily News]

Little Baby’s Ice Cream Freezes Out Frankford Ave.; Khyber Taps Into Tsar