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Chick-fil-A is having a wild month.

While the Atlanta-based chicken chain continues to gain steam with new restaurant openings around the country — plus plans by affiliate Red Wagon Ventures LLC for a new retail concept — the company's controversial history related to gay marriage has flown back into the public's consciousness.

While a New Yorker article decrying Chick-fil-A's ''creepy infiltration” of Big Apple somewhat restarted the conversation in April, the narrative took another turn this…

The Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission is on track to receive a funding boost of more than $1.2 million in next year's budget, a shot of cash that Treasurer Deborah Goldberg said is “desperately” needed at the “terribly under-resourced” agency.

The Food Fort wants to add another outpost.

The food business incubator and part of the Economic Community Development Institute is planning a new, 5,000-square-foot building at 1700 Old Leonard Ave., on a vacant lot just catty-corner from ECDI’s offices and the current Food Fort facility. The new space would be in addition to the current operation.

“We’ve been at capacity for more than a year and a half,” Food Fort Director Terry Traster told me. “We have a long waiting list and we…

Three weeks after extreme flooding devastated Ellicott City homes and businesses for the second time in two years, one historic district restaurant is preparing to reopen its doors.

Manor Hill Tavern will serve lunch and dinner starting this Saturday from noon to 8 p.m. The restaurant will also be open Sunday during the same timeframe. Manor Hill will not be accepting reservations and may not be able to serve all of the items on its menu over the weekend, according to a post on its Facebook page.…

In time for Fourth of July, Philadelphia residents and visitors will get a taste of the much-anticipated Bourse Marketplace with a week's worth of festivities that includes a pop-up beer garden, block party and hard-hat tours of the multimillion dollar renovation's progress.

Set to open this summer, The Bourse is in the final stretch of its $22.5 million transformation into an upscale food hall. The final project will have about 30 food tenants (see below).

From June 29 through July 3, The Bourse…

The workshop is a feast of old-fashioned craftsmanship: the smell of sawdust, the lightshow of sparks showering off metal and the sound of blades biting through wood.

A 60-foot-tall building with wind tunnels could rise at an increasingly higher-profile intersection on the Cumberland River's east bank.

The restaurants would share an existing green space with public seating in front of 2121 Crystal Drive.