Home Appétit
Sick of having to plan, shop for and cook freaking dinner? Also sick of takeout? Home Appétit delivers enough precooked meals to your doorstep at the start of the week to feed your family through the weekend. No meal kits with shrink-wrapped garlic and complicated instructions, no pizza boxes — just a fridge full of food that actually tastes good. homeappetitphilly.com.
Home Appétit
True, you can get most anything couriered to your doorstep in 2016, but meal-delivery service Home Appétit is one of the real stars of Philly's convenience economy, both because the heat-and-eat meals are unusually fresh-tasting and delicious and because ordering is so gloriously flexible. From the city and select suburbs, you can order a week's meals whenever you want (no plan required), and food arrives after work hours, when you're actually home to collect it. homeappetitphilly.com.
Marigold Kitchen
Robert Halperns cooking is as American as the Cabot-clothbound-cheddar cracker he likes to send out before appetizers, and as New as the liquefaction process that makes that cheese spill over your tongue like a stream of not-quite-molten lava. The amuse-bouches are the coolest things going in this timeworn rowhouse popcorn sauced with liquid nitrogen, ice-cream-droplet tricolore salad, chocolate-dusted corn ravioli which is good, since dinner comes with about a dozen of them. 501 South 45th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, marigoldkitchenbyob.wordpress.com.
Jillian Moskovitz
No matter how grand (or petite) your dwelling is, there will come a time when you need a small-space solution. Squeeze every square inch out of a powder room, say, or find a place to tuck away five humans’ shoes when you don’t have a mudroom, or much of an entryway at all. Moskovitz, design consultant for the low-maintenance, high-style Down2Earth Interior Design, thrives on creative problem solving, helping to maximize your space by making it functional — and full of personality too. As Moskovitz will show you, just because it’s small doesn’t mean it has to be boring. down2earthinteriordesign.com.