Three Dining Pop-Ups Coming to Northside Dining Terrace

Dinner Out Catering (Image courtesy of The Enterprise Center).
Happening now through March 2025, Drexel Campus Dining will host three local businesses at Northside Dining Terrace, located at 203 N. 34th Street, as part of Aramark’s Local Restaurant Row program. Each business will host pop-up dining experiences. The Drexel and West Philadelphia communities are invited to support these businesses through March 6, 2025.
Local Restaurant Row is a partnership between Drexel University, Aramark, and The Enterprise Center. It is aimed at giving neighborhood restaurateurs the opportunity to showcase their menus to a broader audience.
The Local Restaurant Row Winter 2025 Lineup
Now until Thursday, February 6, 2025, Dinner Out Catering is serving food and beverages, including acai bowls, vegetarian chili, hot chocolate, warm cookies, and taco bowls with either a bed of rice, spinach, or a baked potato.
Next from Monday, February 10 to Thursday, February 20, 2025, Sweet T’s Bakery & Snack Shop will host their pop-up shop. Sweet T’s Bakery & Snack Shop is owned by husband and wife Mark and Tia El. Growing up, Tia loved baking sweet potato recipes passed down from her grandmother, Delores Trutti. As Tia honed her baking skills, she began experimenting with other food combinations, such as creating a graham cracker crust for her sweet potato desserts. When people took notice of her original concept and loved it, Tia knew she wanted to make this her career. Currently, Tia and Mark manage a stall at the Reading Terminal Market.
Last but not least, from Monday, February 24 to Thursday, March 6, 2025, The Jamaican Pattie Shop will serve their delicious curry crab patties, oxtail patties, and curry chickpea and jackfruit patties, a great option for vegetarians and vegans.
The Drexel and West Philadelphia communities are invited to support these businesses through March 6, 2025. Local Restaurant Row is located in Northside Dining Terrace at 203 N. 34th Sweet T’s Bakery & Snack Shop, and The Jamaican Pattie Shop will be at Northside Dining Terrace, Monday through Thursday, from 4 to 8 p.m. Dinner Out Catering will serve dinner from 4 to 8 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and bite-sized appetizers for lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday.
About the Enterprise Center
The Enterprise Center’s Culinary Enterprises Commercial Kitchen supports local businesses in West Philadelphia by creating dynamic and engaging pop-up shops that showcase retail products and culinary masterpieces from diverse small businesses.
For many years, Aramark at Drexel University has included products from the Enterprise Center in its campus dining program. Drexel Campus Dining sells items from the Enterprise Center to support small businesses in the Market at the Northside Dining Terrace. In Fall 2023, Drexel Campus Dining relaunched the Local Restaurant Row program.