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Rosy’s Taco Bar sets its opening in Center City

FCM is billing Rosy's — named after James "Rosy" Roosevelt, older half-brother to Franklin Delano Roosevelt — as a cross between a neighborhood pub and Mexican cantina.

The future Rosy's Taco Bar at 23rd and Walnut Streets.
The future Rosy's Taco Bar at 23rd and Walnut Streets.Read moreROSE BROWNELL

FCM Hospitality, behind such spots as Morgan's Pier, and Concourse Dance Bar, has set a Sept. 5 opening for Rosy's Taco Bar, a Mexican-inspired pub at 2220 Walnut St., underneath the Roosevelt Apartments. It was Roosevelt's Bar back in the day.

FCM is billing Rosy's — named after James "Rosy" Roosevelt, older half-brother to Franklin Delano Roosevelt — as a cross between a neighborhood pub and Mexican cantina. The airy bar area with floor-to-ceiling windows will open up to the intersection of 23rd and Walnut Streets. The rear of the space features a dining room, private event space, and a second bar.

Rodrigo Bolanos, who helped open El Vez as a Jose Garces line cook, is chef, turning out made-from-scratch dishes such as familiar al pastor and pollo tinga, as well as such twists as a Korean barbeque taco, spice grilled chicken wings, Mexican-style sandwiches, and for dessert, a choco rolles, a Mexican spin on a Swiss roll. Lost Bread Co., an FCM partner, will provide masa for the tortillas.

There will be a hot sauce bar, too.

Beverages will include draft margaritas and sangrias — but shaken to order with fresh fruit. Ten rotating beers will include Mexican and domestic options. Plenty of tequila.

FCM Hospitality says it will donate a portion of sales throughout the entire year to National Immigrant Justice Center to show support for immigrant families.

Opening-week hours for Rosy's will be 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. Beginning Sept. 14, hours will be 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. Monday to Thursday, noon to 2 a.m. Friday (with brunch kicking off on Sept. 15 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.), and 11 a.m. 2 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays.