{"id":340294,"date":"2025-10-29T08:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T08:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/340294\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T08:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T08:06:12","slug":"sao-is-a-seafood-forward-second-restaurant-for-james-beard-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/340294\/","title":{"rendered":"Sao is a seafood forward second restaurant for James Beard winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByTimothy Walton  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WPVI logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/origin-wpvi.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, October 28, 2025 3:09PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Sao is a seafood forward second restaurant for James Beard winner\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Garlic fried chicken is one of the signature dishes you can find at Sao from James Beard winner Phila Lorn<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">EAST PASSYUNK (WPVI) &#8212; Phila Lorn and his wife Rachel along with partner Jesse Levinson opened Sao on East Passyunk Avenue in September. It is the second restaurant for Phila and Rachel following the critically acclaimed Mawn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Phila won a James Beard award this summer for emerging chef for his work at Mawn. At his new restaurant the food has a similar style with some dishes carried over from the first restaurant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The new space has a raw bar at the heart of the restaurant featuring a rotating menu of crudos and oysters. There is also a bar serving craft cocktails created by Jesse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Sao has 33 seats, and they do hold room for walk-ins at the bar which is something they are unable to do at Mawn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><strong class=\"vtkaO \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saophilly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sao <\/a>| <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/saophilly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook <\/a>| <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/saophilly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/strong><br class=\" \"\/>1710 East Passyunk Avenue, Philadelphia PA 19148<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByTimothy Walton Tuesday, October 28, 2025 3:09PM Garlic fried chicken is one of the signature dishes you can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":340295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[167665,5229,16374,40469,167663,1448,2830,167664,1311,167662,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-340294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-167665","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-fyi-philly","11":"tag-james-beard","12":"tag-mawn","13":"tag-pa","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-phila-lorn","16":"tag-philadelphia","17":"tag-sao","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115456428762023402","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}