James Beard Award-winning chef Tyson Cole and his Hai Hospitality group are bringing their acclaimed sushi restaurant, Uchi, to Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square in late 2025. The new location will be a fine-dining experience with 165 seats, including a sushi bar and outdoor seating.
The lauded Austin chef Tyson Cole is adding his sushi stylings to a wave of new Japanese restaurants around Rittenhouse in 2025. a high-style, fine-dining Japanese restaurant from James Beard Award-winning chef Tyson Cole and his Austin, Texas-based group Hai Hospitality, will join Hai has signed a lease for a ground-floor space at the Josephine, the new high-rise at 1620 Sansom St.
The projected opening is late 2025, setting the scene for a collection of new, big-budget Japanese restaurants within several blocks in the Rittenhouse Square area.. Renderings are not yet available, though it’s known that Philadelphia’s Uchi will have 165 seats, with 24 of them shared between the bar and sushi bar, and 14 in an outdoor seating area. Uchi debuted in 2003 in a refurbished bungalow — the name means “house” — and has expanded to seven locations around the country. A location in Charlotte, N.C., is being readied for 2025, while new deals are on the table in the Washington and New York markets, said Tony Montero, Hai’s chief executive. At Uchi, whose Philadelphia budget is over $5 million, “we take the sushi bar experience and bring it to the table,” Montero said. “What I mean by that is when you order, say, eight different types of nigiri pieces, they’re going to come out separately, or maybe two at a time, so that you feel like you’re at the sushi bar.” Philadelphia has been on Hai’s radar since 2018, said Doug Green of MSC, who brokered the deal. Hai’s then-president, Daryl Kulik, visited for what Green called “very soft recon.” The pandemic shut down the search. When it resumed in early 2024, the Josephine was well under construction and a deal there forhad just fallen through. Green connected Uchi with the developer, Southern Land Co., “who got it.” (There is a further Philadelphia connection: Hai’s growth is funded by KSL Capital Partners, the private-equity group that, an izakaya, at 1710 Sansom St., a block from Uchi’s future sit
CHEF TYSON COLE UCHI RITTENHOUSE SQUARE PHILADELPHIA JAPANESE RESTAURANT HAI HOSPITALITY
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