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The Kimmel Center will be getting the celebrity chef treatment. (Photo courtesy of the Kimmel Center)

More exciting news.

Just a few days after learning about Stephen Starr’s new restaurant opening this weekend at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, now comes word that Wolfgang Puck — the world-renowned master chef and restaurateur — will be coming to Philadelphia to open a new restaurant at the Kimmel Center.

It’s part of a plan to enliven the city’s central performing arts hub.

While the Kimmel Center’s old restaurant, Cadence, was located off street level on the Kimmel’s balcony level, Wolfgang Puck will develop an entirely new restaurant and it will be located on ground floor on the Spruce Street side of the Kimmel, where the gift shop is currently located.

The new restaurant won’t open until fall 2011, but Wolfgang Puck will begin consulting on the Kimmel’s catering offerings this fall, both in the former Cadence space and in the plaza cafe in the Kimmel’s lobby.

More from The Philadelphia Inquirer:

Puck’s presence comes through an existing partnership with Restaurant Associates, the Kimmel’s current food-service vendor, which continues its relationship with the Kimmel and be a tenant in the Kimmel’s basement kitchen…

[Kimmel president Anne Ewers] said that the new restaurant, as yet unnamed, will be open for lunch and dinner, and open all the time, unlike Cadence, which was open only around Verizon Hall performance days and times.

The Kimmel Center will also be adding a new high-definition, digitally-animated, 7-foot x 7-foot video cube at the northeast corner of the building, at Broad and Spruce Streets.

Click here to read the full report from the Inquirer.

Kimmel Center to liven up its street look [Philadelphia Inquirer]