Beer Radar

The Far Northeast is finally getting itself a high-end takeout store. If it gets the go-ahead from city licensing poo-bahs, the Craft Beer Outlet will open this weekend at Morrell Plaza Shopping Center (Frankford Avenue and Knights Road, near Holy Family College).

Owner Mark Sablowsky told me at least 16 to 17 of the store’s 22 separate cooler doors (!) will be dedicated to craft beer and imports.

Sablowsky, who also operates the nearby Beer Outlet distributorship at Franklin Mills, said he was inspired to open the sixpack and bottle shop because of all of the customers who would come into the distributor and say, “I’d really like to try one bottle of Chimay, but not a whole case.”

With a nod to the Foodery, the city’s best takeout shop, Sablowsky said, “There’s no reason that a Center City idea like that can’t work up here.”

Directions from I-95: Exit at Academy Road, turn right at Frankford, drive 1.5 miles, store is in shopping center on left.

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