El Cafeito is a Rose on Cecil B. Moore


Rick Nichols visits El Cafeito, the Puerto Rican cafe at the unlikely corner of 3rd and Cecil B. Moore.

[T]he cafe has still planted a flag here – put life on the gap-toothed street, and umbrellas on the patio; made good on its promise of a clean, comfy, welcoming place in a Kensington that hasn’t shared, so far, in the hip revival that has visited parts of Northern Liberties and Fishtown.

Puerto Rican comfort food [Philadelphia Inquirer]