Pumpkin

1713 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19146

Phone: 215-545-4448

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#43 on the 2009 Philly Mag 50

#42 on the 2008 Philly Mag 50

The bold orange logo announces Pumpkin’s place on the 1700 block of South Street, and the view through the expansive plate-glass windows entices diners into the lively one-room restaurant. Chef Ian Moroney is hard at work in the open kitchen (when he isn’t pulling up a chair in the dining room to chat with patrons), and owner Hillary Bor—Ian’s girlfriend—oversees the BYOB’s boisterous, sage-colored dining room, casually decorated with butcher-paper table coverings and salvaged-window wall hangings. Moroney’s rustic, mostly French flavors are familiar and comfortable, a match for this we-don’t-want-to-be-Rittenhouse ’hood. The Sunday-night $30 prix fixe is another neighborhood pleaser—except among those who can’t get a table thanks to carpetbagger crowds.