Restaurant shuttered since September
The sailing has been anything but smooth and the outlook is as clear as mud for the property of the former Phillips Crab House at 2004 Philadelphia Avenue.
Right now, no one seems to know for sure what the plans are for the property, which shuttered as Phillips in late 2021 before it was bought by local franchisee Mike Ramadan, who leased the property to the owners of Fast Eddie’s, a restaurant on 118th Street, in April 2022.
The owners reopened the restaurant as Union Chesapeake Seafood House, with a similar style to Phillips, and operated for one summer.
But a few months later in September, a fire broke out. The fire was likely caused by faulty wiring, according to the Worcester County Fire Marshall’s Office at the time. Though it didn’t spread past its point of origin, firefighters needed to chainsaw through the roof to contain it.
Eddie Johnson of the Fast Eddie’s group said in a text message that they’re in the process of backing out of the lease after Ramadan did not remodel the establishment in October like he said he would, according to the plan at the time the lease was signed.