A popular seafood and steakhouse is moving a few miles east, from Monroeville to Murrysville.
Coast & Main Seafood and Chophouse, currently on the Monroeville Mall property, will relocate to the former Berkshire Hathaway office on Route 22, between KFC and the Rosa Court shopping center, likely in early 2027.
“We had our lease shortened and got about 18 months to figure things out once Walmart bought the property,” owner Michelle Kirsop said.
Walmart officials, in partnership with Texas-based real estate firm Cypress Equities, purchased the 186-acre mall property for about $34 million in early 2025. Part of a subsequent $7.5 million state grant request indicated plans to tear down the mall and rebuild on the property.
In addition to the physical challenge of moving an entire restaurant’s worth of materials, Pennsylvania liquor laws prohibit transferring Coast & Main’s Allegheny County liquor license to Westmoreland County. In early June, Murrysville Council held a public hearing to transfer a Westmoreland liquor license from the now-closed Johnny L’s in South Greensburg to the new Coast & Main location.
“It’s a big challenge,” Kirsop said. “We’re a family business and not a big corporate anchor like some of the other mall stores. We’ve put a lot of money and effort into that location, and now we’re basically starting over from scratch.”
Coast & Main’s future address, 4420 William Penn Highway, also will need work before it can open.
“It used to be a restaurant, but no longer, so it’s not a second-generation restaurant space,” Kirsop said. “We’ll have to do quite a bit of construction to convert it back.”
While they have plenty of work ahead of them, Kirsop said she is excited about the prospect of reopening in Murrysville.
“We have a very loyal following of folks from Murrysville, so it made sense to relocate there and try to write the next chapter of our story,” she said.
Kirsop said Walmart officials set a March 2027 deadline to vacate the Monroeville Mall location.
“Our most successful days are the big holidays, so it will be nice to remain open for New Year’s Eve this year,” she said. “For a lot of return customers, eating here on a holiday has become kind of a tradition.”
Coast & Main has about 50 employees, Kirsop said.
“We don’t want anyone, including our family members, to be out of work,” she said. “So we’ll start hiring and training in the fall for people who want to work in Murrysville. It’s all very fluid at this point, based on the amount of construction we need to do.”
Murrysville Council is scheduled to vote on the liquor license transfer at its meeting June 16.