PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- We're heading to a South Philly neighborhood tavern that first opened in 1936, and was just saved from closing its doors.

At Bomb Bomb Bar and Grill, it's like an Italian Seven Fishes feast there every day.

Whether you host Christmas Eve, or you're a seafood lover, we got the secrets to their famous clams casino.

"It's important to me to keep this in the neighborhood," says Joey Baldino, the new owner of Bomb Bomb at the corner of Wolf and South Warnock in South Philadelphia.

He kept the original signage, which features the images of two bombs.

The name tells the story. In the 1930s, the neighborhood bar and grill was bombed twice.

An 8-time James Beard semifinalist, Baldino is from the South Philly neighborhood.

"I grew up on 12th and Tasker, so it's not f

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