After being sold by owner Chip Roman, Mica will reopen Sept. 6. (Photo by Nina Lea Photography)

by Lucy Curtis

Mica, a restaurant serving “progressive American cuisine” on the 8600 block of Germantown Avenue was recently sold by its owner, Chip Roman, to Yianni Arhontoulis, the chef de cuisine at another one of Roman’s restaurants, Blackfish.

On Tuesday, Sept. 6, Arhontoulis will reopen Mica. Philly.com reports that the restaurant “will be much as it was before (staff included), though it will become a BYOB. Arhontoulis bills the food as "tasty and technical."

Arhontoulis, 28, graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and has an impressive resume that, besides Blackfish, includes time as a chef at the Glasbern Inn, a “farm-to-table restaurant just west of Allentown in Fogelsberg, Pa.”

"I have had the great opportunity to work for Chip Roman over the past few years, but now, like so many other great chefs here in Philly, it is time for me to take what I have learned from Chip and create my own space," Arhontoulis told Philly.com.

Roman told the publication that he sold the restaurant to Arhontoulis because he wants to have more time for his family. He will continue to run his flagship restaurant, Blackfish, the destination BYOB in Conshohocken, and his Tradestone Confections, an artisanal chocolate maker that is a partnership with chef Fred Ortega.