I’d been at Megobari for five minutes when I texted Laura, my wife, to tell her: I love it here. I live here now. I’m […]
There is a part of me that always believed I would find myself alone at a metal bar drinking gin at the end of the […]
Under the tall ceilings at an old firehouse in Kensington near where Front meets Cecil B. Moore is Michael Solomonov’s second attempt at an oyster […]
Across the way, a photographer is bent double, trying to get a dramatic hero shot of a stack of baklava on the counter at Kamal’s. […]
Black Dragon Takeout is a place born of food deserts and demographic change. Local chef and activist Kurt Evans knew that Chinese takeout was often […]
There’s this scene in Ratatouille where Remy the rat is trying to show his brother (Emile, also a rat) that he can do better than […]
Old City needed a late-night fried chicken joint. A brunch spot. A BYOB. A place to get mac and cheese, hand pies, deviled eggs, and […]
The white walls at Sorellina seem to glow when the sun begins to set. And at the bar, the plates never stop coming — spreads […]
Breezy’s is what a Wawa would be if there were only one, and it were run by a chef and baker with an incurable hoagie […]
The server at Little Walter’s looks around the dining room. It’s early yet. Quiet. In the kitchen, the crew are still setting their mise, hauling […]
It’s early on a Saturday at Amy’s Pastelillos, and already there’s a line. Well, not a line. A crowd, really. A bunch of Philadelphians milling […]
The first time I walked into Rosemary, “Afternoon Delight” by Starland Vocal Band was playing. The cream-colored walls and green ferns in the bar made […]
At the bar, they’re trying to invent a coconut-water daiquiri. It’s a custom job, a one-off, an experiment made with homemade rice milk and coconuts […]
When Soko Bag first opened in January of this year in the old Sal’s Pizza Box on Nutt Road in Phoenixville, the lines snaked out […]
Ding Feng Tang is never really quiet. Slow, sure. On Sunday afternoons and Wednesdays between shifts, maybe. There are days and hours where everything downshifts […]
