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Craft kitchen chain to replace Naples restaurant closing at Mercato

Tap 42 Craft Kitchen & Bar is moving into the space formerly occupied by AZN Asian Cuisine.


  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 12:00 p.m. December 12, 2023
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Tap 42 Craft Kitchen + Bar will open at Mercato in Naples next year.
Tap 42 Craft Kitchen + Bar will open at Mercato in Naples next year.
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A growing — and popular — restaurant concept out of South Florida is coming to Naples.

The Fort Lauderdale chain Tap 42 Craft Kitchen & Bar plans to open a 6,622-square-foot eatery in the city next year. The restaurant will be at Mercato, the upscale 455,000-square-foot lifestyle center managed by North American Properties, in the space just vacated by AZN Asian Cuisine and below the soon-to-open Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.

The space where Tap 42 will move into opened up when AZN shuts down Dec. 9 after a nearly 15-year run at the mall. In a statement on its website, AZN says Saturday was its final day and thanked supporters.

 


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Louis Llovio

Louis Llovio is the deputy managing editor at the Business Observer. Before going to work at the Observer, the longtime business writer worked at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Maryland Daily Record and for the Baltimore Sun Media Group. He lives in Tampa.

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