After 14 years, the popular Center City sports bar Cavanaugh’s Rittenhouse will close Sunday, July 31 in advance of an opening in September in a larger space in The Harper building, one block west on the 1900 block of Sansom Street.
Owners Kenneth Hutchings and Patrick Pawliczek, whose other holdings include locations in Head House Square and University City and Cavanaugh’s River Deck on Penn’s Landing, have signed for 4,000 square feet on two levels. The first floor will seat 45 people at the bar and 70 at tables, while the mezzanine will seat 25 at the bar and 40 at tables, plus 10 seats overlooking the bar. There will be 22 TVs and a 6-foot by 11-foot wall screen.
Pawliczek and Hutchings met as coworkers at Cav’s University City in the early 90s after its move from 31st and Market Streets to 39th and Chestnut Street. That location, which was owned by Pawliczek’s grandfather, is now operated by Pawliczek’s brother Brian.