Best of Philly

2010 New Concept

Garces Trading Company

Is it a gourmet grocery? A BYOB? A coffee shop? Who cares? Customers can’t get enough of the convenience of a PLCB wine store plunked directly inside this market/cafe or of Jose Garces’s pan-European fare. Could this be one tiny step for the modernization of the state store system and one giant leap for wine-lovers (and diners) in PA? Here’s hoping.

1111 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107; 215-574-1099; garcestradingcompany.com/