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Center City Sips alts at Jet and Rex

Hump day blues got you down? Remedy your midweek ennui with relaxing cocktails on South Street West at either Jet Wine Bar or Rex 1516. […]

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Tonight: Rex 1516 Launches A New Happy Hour Program

Okay, so maybe the middle of Philly Beer Week isn’t the best time to try to roll out a new happy hour program, but you […]

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Mint Julep in Liquid and Dessert Form at Rex 1516

Tonight and all day tomorrow the Mint Juleps are on special for $8 at Rex 1516. The South Street bar and restaurant has the timeless […]

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Weekend: Crawfish Boil to Celebrate One Year At Rex 1516

It’s been a helluva first year for Rex 1516, so they’re throwing a party. The Rex 1516 one-year anniversary crawfish boil and jazz weekend kicked […]

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Rex 1516 Rolls Out New Menu This Friday

Rex 1516 is rolling out a new menu for early Spring. It is the first menu fully devised by executive chef Justin Swain. Chef Swain’s […]

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Philly’s 51st-Best Restaurant

Picking the 50 best restaurants in a city shouldn’t be this tough. So what does it say about Philly that it was? Rex 1516—the modern […]

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REX 1516’s Regis Jansen Stepping Down to Battle His Cystic Fibrosis

Chef Regis Jansen who has been the chef at REX 1516 since it opened earlier this year is stepping down due to medical reasons. Jansen […]

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50 Best Restaurants Poll: Rex 1516

On Foobooz, we’ll be running daily surveys, polling readers about where they believe certain restaurants will land in the Philadelphia magazine list of the 50 […]

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Rex 1516 is Ready For Fall

It’s getting really cold, really fast. So what better way to warm yourself than with booze? Southern comfortable Rex 1516 is revamping their cocktail list […]

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Rex 1516 Rolls Out New Menu This Evening

The crawfish pot-pie is still on the menu Chef Regis Jansen is rolling out his new menu at Rex 1516 tonight. Check out the Scotch […]

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Celebrate Frank Furness, a Philadelphia Legend, at Local Restaurants

With that mustache, he’d fit right in in Fishtown This year marks 100 years since the death of famous Philadelphia architect Frank Furness. Furness’ designs […]

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Modern Southern Fusion a Hit at Rex 1516

Trey Popp enjoys the Southern cooking of chef Regis Jansen at Rex 1516, especially during the brunch hours. Rex is best at brunch. The Monte […]

City Life

Philadelphia Restaurant Review: Rex 1516

It’s taken the nearly five years since Gourmet magazine cemented Southern food’s trendy status by devoting an entire issue to it, but Philadelphia may now […]

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Gluten Free Menus at Rex 1516

Rex 1516, the Southern inspired restaurant on South Street, has released gluten free menus for brunch, dinner, and dessert. They will be preparing their own […]

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Six Pack: Best Sweet Potato Fries in Philadelphia

[imagebrowser id=81] Though sweet potato fries can be a sometimes divisive food, here are our picks for six of the best sweet potato fries in […]