One Kitchen Now Runs Three of Wayne's Biggest Tables

Walk west on Lancaster Avenue from the Radnor Hotel on any evening this month and the block reads differently than it did two years ago. The old Glenmorgan sign is long gone. The former Bertucci's storefront has scaffolding and a build-out that's been going for months. A new bakery line spills onto the sidewalk before most people have had coffee. If you live here, you've clocked the changes one at a time. What's easy to miss is that most of them trace back to the same family.

Fearless Restaurants, the Philadelphia hospitality group run by Marty Grims and his daughter Sydney, now operates three of the most significant addresses on this stretch of Wayne: Rosalie inside the Wayne Hotel, Triple Crown at the Radnor Hotel, and the still-arriving Martini & Roz in the old Bertucci's space. That's not three restaurants opening near each other by coincidence. It's one operator building a footprint, and it changes how this corridor actually functions for the people who eat here regularly.

One Name Behind Three Doors

Rosalie has been the anchor since it opened inside the Wayne Hotel, built around a regional Italian menu and a wine list deep enough to draw its own following. Triple Crown came next, taking over the old Glenmorgan Bar and Grill space at the Radnor Hotel and opening in July 2025 with an equestrian theme built around tack, jockey silks, and a bar designed for solo business travelers. Martini & Roz is the newest piece, confirmed as of an August 2026 update to be opening this fall in the former Bertucci's at 523 West Lancaster Avenue.

Three doors, one ownership group, and a chef who now runs the kitchen at two of them.

Same Chef, Two Dining Rooms

That last detail matters more than it looks. Merick Devine, who built Rosalie's regional Italian menu, will also lead the culinary program at Martini & Roz once it opens. That's not a coincidence of staffing. It's a signal that Fearless is treating these properties as a connected system rather than three unrelated bets, sharing kitchen talent, sharing design language, and increasingly sharing a reservations book.

The design lineage tells the same story. When Sydney Grims described what she wanted from Triple Crown, she didn't reach for generic hotel-restaurant language.

"We wanted Triple Crown to feel like a Main Line estate," she said, pointing to Ardrossan as inspiration.

Ardrossan is the Radnor estate that inspired The Philadelphia Story, once home to Hope Montgomery Scott, the horsewoman widely understood to have shaped Katharine Hepburn's character in the film. That's a specific, local reference point, not a mood board pulled from anywhere else. It tells you Fearless isn't just filling vacant real estate on Lancaster Avenue. It's building a version of Wayne that reflects the town's own history back at the people eating in it.

The Math That Built the Bigger Room

Here's the part that's easy to miss if you only track openings one at a time: Martini & Roz wasn't the plan a year ago. Fearless had originally intended to bring a second Testa Rossa location into the old Bertucci's space. That plan changed, and according to Sydney Grims, the shift was driven directly by what happened at Triple Crown. The demand for a similarly high-end experience outpaced what the existing footprint could support, so the company built a bigger room instead of a second version of something smaller.

The numbers back that up. Martini & Roz will occupy roughly 7,500 square feet and seat more than 300 guests, broken out as 180 in the main dining room, 20 at the bar, 20 at a tasting counter, 20 in a private dining room, and 70 outdoors. Compare that to Burtons Grill a few blocks east, which seats up to 175 across its dining room, bar, and patio. Martini & Roz isn't just another restaurant on the block. It's built to absorb overflow that Triple Crown alone couldn't handle, which tells you something about how fast reservations at these Fearless properties have been moving.

The interior, designed by Philadelphia's Rohe Creative, leans into curved banquettes, sculptural lighting, and dramatic arches, with two open kitchens, a glass-enclosed cheese cave, and a nightly tasting counter menu. None of that changes the underlying point: this is capacity being added to solve a problem the operator already had, not competition arriving from outside.

What's Actually Changing on the Block

The consolidation shows up in smaller ways too. A few storefronts down from the Martini & Roz build-out, Eagle Village Shops picked up Wild Yeast Bakehouse, a storefront from founder John Goncher, who started baking sourdough at home in Rosemont during the pandemic. Eagle Village has historically been a lunch stop anchored by chain retail. A named-baker sourdough shop sitting steps from a 300-seat Italian house changes who's walking that stretch in the morning, not just in the evening.

Burtons Grill, which opened as the chain's first Pennsylvania location at 312 West Lancaster Avenue, remains the corridor's steady mid-tier option, and OSushi has settled in nearby under chef-owner Sam Li, who hand-selects fish daily and runs a BYOB menu built around rock shrimp aioli and hibachi entrees. Neither is connected to Fearless. Neither had to be, because the corridor's growth isn't purely a single-operator story. A separate, unrelated project is underway a few blocks over at 166 East Lancaster Avenue, where Radnor Commissioners approved a relocated liquor license for a new steakhouse-style grill from owner Larry Kagan, led by a chef who grew up in Wayne. It's a reminder that not every seat on this street runs through the same reservations system, even as the biggest ones increasingly do.

The Corridor Meets Its First Real Test

All of this lands right before the 35th Annual Radnor Fall Festival, the largest event the Wayne Business Association hosts each year, set for Sunday, September 20, 2026. The lineup runs from classical performances to rock cover bands, with dance sets from Contempra Dance Studio filling the gaps between acts. It's the kind of day that pulls foot traffic up and down the entire length of Lancaster Avenue at once, which means this is the first real stress test for a restaurant row that now has three of its busiest tables owned by the same family, one still mid-construction.

If you've eaten at Rosalie or Triple Crown on a Friday night recently, you already know how tight those reservations have gotten. What's changing is the scale of the fix. Martini & Roz isn't a new competitor easing that pressure from the outside. It's the same operator building more room to answer demand it already created.

That's the part worth understanding if you live on this stretch of Wayne: the story isn't that more restaurants opened. It's that one operator is quietly becoming the answer to its own waitlist, and the corridor's rhythm, from morning bakery lines to festival-weekend parking, is starting to move around that fact.

If you're weighing a move onto this stretch of Wayne or just want a local read on how a changing block like this affects day-to-day life, few people track these details as closely as Ainlay Dixon. Reach out for a grounded, neighborhood-level conversation, no pressure, just someone who's paying attention to the same streets you walk every day.