{"id":157353,"date":"2026-04-04T19:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157353\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T19:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:20:13","slug":"portofino-to-join-merchant-street-business-district-in-audubon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157353\/","title":{"rendered":"Portofino to Join Merchant Street Business District in Audubon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"940\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The-new-ownership-group-at-Portofino-Audubon-from-left-Ron-Poulin-Robert-Parllaku-and-Elis-Haxhistas.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>\t\t\tThe new ownership group at Portofino Audubon (from left) Ron Poulin, Robert Parllaku, and Elis Haxhistasa. Credit: Matt Skoufalos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-excerpt\">The trattoria will occupy the former Pops location at the corner of Merchant Street and East Atlantic Avenue, with a planned mid-May opening. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.njpen.com\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a> or subscribe to continue reading\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tBy<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMatt Skoufalos\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tApril 3, 2026\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"subscribe-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.njpen.com\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"187\" src=\"https:\/\/www.njpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Want-to-keep-reading.svg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new ownership group at Portofino Audubon (from left) Ron Poulin, Robert Parllaku, and Elis Haxhistasa. Credit: Matt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[71291,71292,62334,62337,69,71,70,71293,71294,71295,71296],"class_list":["post-157353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-elis-haxhistasa","tag-la-cucina-ristorante","tag-matt-skoufalos","tag-njpen","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-pops-trattoria","tag-portofino-audubon","tag-robert-parllaku","tag-ron-poulin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}