Walnut Grill inks deal to open new restaurant in vacated Max & Erma’s in South Strabane

SOUTH STRABANE, Pa. — Walnut Grill is ready to expand again and open its second new restaurant during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The homegrown and growing chain has inked a deal with the owner of a former Max & Erma’s on a parcel in front of the Old Mill shopping center on Route 19 in South Strabane in Washington County and is shooting to open the 6,400-square-foot restaurant by late January.

It’s a stretch of Washington County that spans from Racetrack Road to the South Strabane development for which Walnut Grill Founder and President Kirk Vogel said, “we’ve been eyeing … for the better part of five years now.”