Join us for an elegant night of Live Music!

Every Sunday from 6-9pm, enjoy the musical stylings from a different live performer each week. This Sunday we will be welcoming Gumbo Noveau back to the Royal stage!

Live music is can be heard throughout our dining room, bar area and outdoor patio. No covers needed, but reservations are encourage.

Reserve your table now before they’re all gone!

Unwind and recharge at our Burger Night!

Join us at the bar and outdoor patio every Wednesday, and dig in to our signature Rex Burger, a 7oz patty grilled to perfection, topped with pimento cheese, crispy red onions, bibb lettuce, bacon and sandwiched between two toasted brioche buns. Gluten free buns are available as well.

Don’t forget to wash down it with a pint of our privately labeled Sojourn Lager and a shot of hand-selected Whiskey.

All for only $19. Start from 5-10pm, every Wednesday.

Join us for an elegant night of Live Music!

Every Sunday from 6-9pm, enjoy the musical stylings from a different live performer each week. This Sunday we will be welcoming Naomi & Clayton back to the Royal stage!

Live music is can be heard throughout our dining room, bar area and outdoor patio. No covers needed, but reservations are encourage.

Reserve your table now before they’re all gone!

Unwind and recharge at our Burger Night!

Join us at the bar and outdoor patio every Wednesday, and dig in to our signature Rex Burger, a 7oz patty grilled to perfection, topped with pimento cheese, crispy red onions, bibb lettuce, bacon and sandwiched between two toasted brioche buns. Gluten free buns are available as well.

Don’t forget to wash down it with a pint of our privately labeled Sojourn Lager and a shot of hand-selected Whiskey.

All for only $19. Start from 5-10pm, every Wednesday.

Join us for an elegant night of Live Music!

Every Sunday from 6-9pm, enjoy the musical stylings from a different live performer each week. This Sunday we will be welcoming Ikechi Onyenaka to the Royal stage!

Live music is can be heard throughout our dining room, bar area and outdoor patio. No covers needed, but reservations are encourage.

Reserve your table now before they’re all gone!

Unwind and recharge at our Burger Night!

Join us at the bar and outdoor patio every Wednesday, and dig in to our signature Rex Burger, a 7oz patty grilled to perfection, topped with pimento cheese, crispy red onions, bibb lettuce, bacon and sandwiched between two toasted brioche buns. Gluten free buns are available as well.

Don’t forget to wash down it with a pint of our privately labeled Sojourn Lager and a shot of hand-selected Whiskey.

All for only $19. Start from 5-10pm, every Wednesday.

Join us for an elegant night of Live Music!

Every Sunday from 6-9pm, enjoy the musical stylings from a different live performer each week. This Sunday we will be welcoming Buddy Boy back to the Royal stage!

Live music is can be heard throughout our dining room, bar area and outdoor patio. No covers needed, but reservations are encourage.

Reserve your table now before they’re all gone!

Unwind and recharge at our Burger Night!

Join us at the bar and outdoor patio every Wednesday, and dig in to our signature Rex Burger, a 7oz patty grilled to perfection, topped with pimento cheese, crispy red onions, bibb lettuce, bacon and sandwiched between two toasted brioche buns. Gluten free buns are available as well.

Don’t forget to wash down it with a pint of our privately labeled Sojourn Lager and a shot of hand-selected Whiskey.

All for only $19. Start from 5-10pm, every Wednesday.

Join us for an elegant night of Live Music!

Every Sunday from 6-9pm, enjoy the musical stylings from a different live performer each week. This Sunday we will be welcoming Gumbo Noveau back to the Royal stage!

Live music is can be heard throughout our dining room, bar area and outdoor patio. No covers needed, but reservations are encourage.

Reserve your table now before they’re all gone!

Unwind and recharge at our Burger Night!

Join us at the bar and outdoor patio every Wednesday, and dig in to our signature Rex Burger, a 7oz patty grilled to perfection, topped with pimento cheese, crispy red onions, bibb lettuce, bacon and sandwiched between two toasted brioche buns. Gluten free buns are available as well.

Don’t forget to wash down it with a pint of our privately labeled Sojourn Lager and a shot of hand-selected Whiskey.

All for only $19. Start from 5-10pm, every Wednesday.

Join us for an elegant night of Live Music!

Every Sunday from 6-9pm, enjoy the musical stylings from a different live performer each week. This Sunday we will be welcoming Greg Farnese back to the Royal stage!

Live music is can be heard throughout our dining room, bar area and outdoor patio. No covers needed, but reservations are encourage.

Reserve your table now before they’re all gone!

Unwind and recharge at our Burger Night!

Join us at the bar and outdoor patio every Wednesday, and dig in to our signature Rex Burger, a 7oz patty grilled to perfection, topped with pimento cheese, crispy red onions, bibb lettuce, bacon and sandwiched between two toasted brioche buns. Gluten free buns are available as well.

Don’t forget to wash down it with a pint of our privately labeled Sojourn Lager and a shot of hand-selected Whiskey.

All for only $19. Start from 5-10pm, every Wednesday.

Join us on June 16th for our 5th installment of the Chef Series at Rex at the Royal. Chef Angie Brown has partnered with Chef Nana Wilmot to produce a 5-course southern inspired dining event. Dishes will be served on vintage plateware from Chef Angie’s private collection.

Meet Nana Araba!

Nana Araba Wilmot is the Chef/ Owner of Georgina’s Private Chef and Catering Co. and Curator of Love That I Knead, a West African-focused dinner series. Holding degrees in Culinary Arts and Culinary Management from the Art Institute of Philadelphia, Chef Nana has worked for numerous Culinary Luminaries, including Wolfgang Puck, Iron Chef Jose Garces, Stephen Starr and Chef Daniel Rose at Le CouCou in NYC, which won a James Beard Best New Restaurant 2017 and a Michelin Star in 2018.

Chef Nana’s Culinary focuses on celebrating foodways across the African Diaspora, using her dishes to explore her identity and help others “find their way back”. Spanning locations in Philadelphia, NYC, and Accra Ghana, her work has been featured in numerous publications including Bon Appetit, Forbes, New York Times, Eater, and Eater NY.

Most recently, Chef Nana has been seen on Food Network’s CHOPPED and featured in the highly anticipated Cookbook “The Contemporary African Kitchen” by Alexander Smalls, released in October 2024.

Tickets are available now. $95 per person for the five-course menu OR $145 per person for the five-course menu, plus additional craft-cocktail pairings.

May is just around the corner, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to announce the next installment of Chef Angie Brown’s Chef Series!!

Join us on Monday, May 19th from 6-9pm, and get the chance to meet, have dinner and chat with Chef Angie and guest chef— April McGreger!

For those you who may not know, April is a writer, chef, urban homesteader, and the founder of Farmer’s Daughter, an award-winning pickling and preserving company, that she has operated in North Carolina for 11 years. Her passion for social justice and food justice in particular led her to 215 People’s Alliance and then People’s Kitchen Philadelphia, where she is excited to share her fermentation and food preservation skills to help build food security, sovereignty, and community in Philadelphia. She is the author of two books, Sweet Potatoes (UNC Press) and Canning and Preserving (Centennial Media). Follow her on Instagram @preservingthesouth.

We are so excited to see what Chef April will have cooking up for us!

Tickets are available now. $95 per person for the five-course menu only, $145 per person for the five-course menu, plus additional craft-cocktail pairings.

Treat your mom to an unforgettable Mother’s Day this weekend at Rex at the Royal!

We’re serving up a specialty menu for brunch and dinner services, featuring exclusive dishes such as Crawfish Deviled Eggs, Dandelion Salad, Stuffed Trout and more!

Come for mimosas, and stay for dinner with live music from Greg Farnese! Music starts at 6-8pm.

Our Mother’s Day menu will be available all day long. Reserve now, but act fast before our books fill up!

Saturday, May 10th, Rex at the Royal will be closed for Mid-day Happy Hour and Dinner services. We will be hosting a private event for the entire restaurant.

Regular services, including brunch, happy hour and dinner, will return back to normal operating hours on Sunday 5/11.

We hope y’all are hungry, because we’re cooking up another Chef Series this April!!

Our own Chef Angie Brown has gathered various local chefs to join her in the kitchen each month to create and collaborate on an innovative menu and tasting experience. These collaborations infuse ingredients, skills, and personal stories and experiences into a five-course tasting menu. Secure a seat to the table and discover the connections and community you can make over the culture and cuisines these chefs love.

Join on April 14th from 6-9pm, for the third installment of this recurring series with local chef— Kieth Taylor of Zachary’s BBQ and Soul.

Tickets are $95 per person, and include tax and gratuity, an intimate dining experience at our 40-foot bar, five-course dinner of chef-driven and inspired cuisine created in collaboration, personal one-on-one interactions with the chefs, and a curated cocktail and wine menu available a la carte.

Elevate you dining experience further by purchasing our $145 ticket option, which includes tax and gratuity, all of the perks of the $95 ticket, plus an additional petite cocktails that perfectly pairs with each course.

Tickets are available now, but act fast, bar seats are limited.

We are so excited to partner again with our good friends and neighbors at The Bethesda Project for a fun and an interactive fundraising event— Cocktails for a Cause!

For those of you who don’t know, The Bethesda Project is a non-profit organization, located at 11 different locations all across the city. Since 1979, their organization strides to offers a home and safe environment where guests and residents can stabilize, regain their dignity and self-worth, and find community. No matter how the world changes, Bethesda Project remains committed to its initial calling — to find and care for the abandoned poor and to be family with those who have none. They do so by providing shelter, housing, and supportive services to adults experiencing homelessness in Philadelphia.

Looking to show your support and get involved? Join us in our mezzanine on 4/4 for Cocktails for a Cause! From 6-8pm, be apart of a guided cocktail class from our in-house beverage expert, James, and learn lessons on how to build, shake & pour a selection of our takes on popular cocktails. Learn to craft high quality cocktails that are easy to repeat all on your own. There will be non-alcoholic cocktails options for any of us who don’t partake in alcoholic drinking as well.

Tickets are $60 for one person, $100 for two people. For each ticket sold, a portion of sales will be donated to The Bethesda Project. Every ticket includes a fully guided and interactive cocktail course featuring three cocktails & special take-home gift!

Tickets are available now, but act fast, seats are limited.

Happy Women’s Month! We are so excited to announce that we’ll be participating in Women’s Way Wednesday!

For the whole month of March, Sisterly Love Collective have held a weekly pop-up at the stratus lounge, celebrating various women-owned and operated culinary and beverage establishments in the great city of Philadelphia. From 5-7;30pm, enjoy thoroughly curated bites from different chefs, with additional featured drinks, music and mingling.

Join us on Wednesday 3/26 for the finale of Women’s Way Wednesday! Our very own Chef Angie Brown will be closing us off in style. She’ll be serving up her own Creole Royale bites. A twist on a classic Creole Vol-au-vent, featuring our signature biscuits.

100% of proceeds from each event will benefit the non-profit organization Women’s Way and Sisterly Love Collective. Tickets are available now, but act fast, before they’re all gone!

Join us for dinner!

On March 25th, We will be closed for regular Happy Hour and Dinner services to host Muhibbah Dinner. A recurring dinner series from the mind of owner and chef of Kampar— Ange Branca. Founded in 2017, The Muhibbah Dinner Series provides the opportunity to come together in fellowship over food and celebrate the diversity of Philadelphia’s cultures, cuisines, and communities. At their dinners, aspiring and professional chefs share dishes that feel like home – wherever home may be. Their communal meals celebrate true diversity: the differences, and similarities, that define America.

This upcoming dinner is more than a just dinner— its also a fundraiser! 100% of proceeds from this chef driven and community dining experience will be donated to benefit Esperanza Immigration Legal Services. EILS was established by Esperanza, a nationally recognized nonprofit organization founded in 1986, as part of its mission to strengthen Hispanic communities through education, economic development, and advocacy. This non-profit organization provides direct legal services, advocacy, and community education for underserved immigrants and their families, so they have the opportunity to contribute to and participate in American society.

Tickets are available now and included dinner, welcome drinks, and tax. Gratuity is NOT included but very much appreciated for our volunteers. As it is tradition, the dinner will be BYOB, so please feel free to bring libations for yourself and to share if you would like. Finally, due to the nature of the event, we are not able to accommodate dietary restrictions. Dinner will be served family style.

Saturday, March 15, Rex at the Royal will be closed for Mid-day Happy Hour and Dinner services. We will be hosting a private event for the entire restaurant.

Regular services, including brunch, happy hour and dinner, will return back to normal operating hours on Sunday 3/16.

You Guys Loved It So Much, We Brought It Back For Another Night!

Join us on March 10th for our second installment of the Chef Series at Rex at the Royal. Chef Angie Brown has partnered with Chef Tanesha Trippett of Jacob's Northwest.

Trippet’s culinary excellence has been spotlighted by Forbes magazine, Philadelphia Eagles, Budwiser, NBC, PHL17, FOX29 and Disney/Pixar. She is a 2014 culinary graduate of the Art Institute of Philadelphia and a member of the prestigious global group of women in hospitality called Les Dames D’Escoffier*.*

Guests will have the opportunity to directly chat and interaction with the chefs as they introduce courses, and share stories, recipes, and their passion for the cuisines and causes that inspire them.

Tickets are $95 per person + tax & included:

• YOUR $95 TICKET INCLUDES TAX & GRATUITY

• Enjoy personal interactions with the chefs

• 5-courses of chef-driven, inspired cuisine created in collaboration

• An intimate dining experience at our 40-foot bar

• Great food and a great time

• Curated cocktail and wine menu available ala carte

Join us for a celebration of history— Black History!

Travel back in time and uncover heart-wrenching letters of the past when your join us on February 23rd for our Letters to Lincoln luncheon! Based off of the compelling book To Address You as My Friend, edited by Jonathan W. White, this historical collection of letters from African Americans to Abraham Lincoln are coming to life on our main stage. Award-winning author, Michael Twitty, actor Elijah Pringle, journalist and professor, Ernest Owens will be reading excerpts of letters written to Lincoln expressing the “dilemmas, doubts, and dreams of both recently enslaved and free people in the throes of dramatic change. These letters, most of which have never been published, offer unflinching, intimate, and often heart-wrenching portraits of Black soldiers’ and civilians’ experiences in wartime.”

From 3pm-5pm, experience a three-course luncheon and a show like no other! Tickets are $65 and inclusive of tax and grat! This is will be a luncheon and live reading on our stage from the book To Address You as My Friend: African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln. Tickets available now.

Friday Bottle Shop Tasting are back! Join us this Friday, February 21st, as we welcome Delta Dirt to our Bottle Shop.

Delta Dirt Distillery is a family-owned and black-owned, craft distillery located in the richest farmland in the country - the Arkansas Delta. They grow their own produce and grains in the same community where these authentic spirits are distilled, which makes them unique in the American distilling industry. The Williams family have deep roots in Arkansas and have farmed their land in Phillips County for four generations.

We can’t wait to welcome them into our space, here at Rex at the Royal!

From 5pm to 7pm, meet with a representative and get the insider’s scoop, as you will have to the opportunity to chat and try samples of their signature vodkas. Then, head over to the bar for a specialty happy hour, featuring craft cocktails spotlighting Delta Dirt Vodka.

No cover or reservation are needed. Bar seats are on a first come, first serve basis.

Love is the air! Why not celebrate your Valentine’s Day at Rex at the Royal!

This February 14th, join us for an unforgettable night of romance and southern classics at our special Valentine’s Day dinner service. From 5pm to close, we will serving up three courses of love with our exclusive prix-fixe menu. This will be ONLY menu available to order from, expect for our Bar Menu (which is only at the bar).

Additional wine pairing will be available to elevate your intimate dining experience further!

Reserve your lovers table now & check out our menu below.

 Chef Angie Brown has partnered with Michelin-trained Chef Ja’mir Cole from The Avery to introduce an elevated and intimate dining experience to our bar. Join us on February 3rd at 6pm for the first ever, Chef Angie Brown’s Chef Series!

Recurring monthly tickets event for guests 21 and older, this His-story & Her-story dining experience highlights the evolution of culinary creativity. Indulge a one-night-only menu imagined by Chef Angie and Chef Ja’mir sharing stories, recipes and their passion for creole and cajun cuisine together. Menu features a five-course dinner with additional wine pairing for an added cost.

Chef Ja’mir Cole is a young, rising star chef. He is set to lead the culinary direction at newly opened restaurant “The Avery” this winter at 2nd & Chestnut. Be the first to enjoy his creations before they open.

Tickets cost $125 per person for the five-course dinner + tax. For five-course dinner with additional wine pairings, tickets will cost $200 per person + tax.

Seats are limited.. Secure your bar stool now!

After a celebratory night of partying and reminiscing about the past year, recharge for the new year with the most important meal of the day— Brunch!

Join us for a Wednesday Brunch from 11am-3pm and enjoy an exclusive New Year’s Day Brunch Menu! Book your Resy or view the menu by clicking below.

We are so thrilled to partner with local brewery— Attic Brewing Co. Located in Germantown, this brewing company has been a staple in the Philly beer scene since 2020. They’re known to brew a variety of beer styles including West Coast IPAs, Hazy IPAs,  lagers, pilsners, stouts, porters, Belgian beers, sour beers, barleywines, barrel-fermented beers and barrel aged beers. Not only do they brew awesome beers, but they’re also known to work with local non-profits and local organizations, actively giving back to their surrounding neighborhoods and communities. Truly a treat, we are so grateful to have the opportunity to be able to collaborate with them too!

They’ll be taking over our bar on August 28th for an extra special Burger Night! Featuring a menu that celebrates Attic, we’ve hand-selected a variety of beers from their rotating collection for you to enjoy with our recurring Burger Night deal. In addition, a representative from Attic Brewing Co. will be joining us day of, to share samples and chat with y’all from 5-7pm.

No cover or reservations need!