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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:11:00

A boxer's corner bar became the club that turned Fishtown around. Johnny Brenda's, at 1201 Frankford Avenue on the corner of Girard in Philadelphia, is a gastropub, taproom and 250-capacity upstairs music venue widely credited as the catalyst of one of America's most storied neighbourhood revivals. The name predates the hip: boxer John Imbrenda opened Johnny Brenda's in 1967, and it served Fishtown's workingmen for decades. In 2003, Paul Kimport and William Reed - owners of the pioneering Stand...