Reviews

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Philadelphia Restaurant Review: Rosa Blanca

Jose Garces can take you places. And the most compelling ones are those you’d have the hardest time reaching on your own. That’s why Amada, […]

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Philadelphia Restaurant Review: Avance

Karl Marx once wrote that history repeats itself: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. And Avance is what happens the third time […]

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Philadelphia Restaurant Review: Le Chéri

YOU HAVE TO FIGURE that any ingredient is fair game in a menu section labeled “Bizarre.” But Pierre Calmels sure pulled a fast one on […]

High Street on Market Review
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Philadelphia Restaurant Review: High Street On Market

IT’S SELDOM A GOOD IDEA to boil down a restaurant recommendation to a tweet-size paragraph, but for prospective visitors to High Street on Market, a […]

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The Revisit: Ela

How do you keep the spark alive? Restaurants face the same question that haunts many a marriage—only, with restaurants, it comes ‘round a whole lot […]

Grilled maitake Nick Elmi's Laurel Restuarant
City Life

Restaurant Review: Nicholas Elmi’s Laurel

Twelve years is a long sentence for someone who hasn’t committed a crime, even if you get to serve it in some swanky cells. Ask […]

City Life

Restaurant Review: Jerry’s Bar

“Brunch is punishment,” Anthony Bourdain famously wrote. “Nothing makes an aspiring Escoffier feel more like an army commissary cook, or Mel from Mel’s Diner, than […]

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Dalessandro’s Versus Chubby’s

As we promised, 2014 is the Year of the Cheesesteak. And as part of the continuing coverage of the cheesesteak, we will be profiling cheesesteak […]

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Nick Elmi’s Laurel Called “Stellar”

Brian Freedman reviews Nick Elmi’s Laurel for Philadelphia Weekly. Freedman calls the East Passyunk BYOB “stellar.” Berkshire pork lavished in its triumvirate of treatments, and each one, […]

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Where the Web Is Eating

Two Eat Philly sit down and order much of the menu at Kevin Sbraga’s The Fat Ham and finds lots of highlights including the oyster sliders and hot […]

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One of Adam Erace’s Best Meals of 2013

Adam Erace recognizes that the talent at High Street on Market goes behind Fork frontman Eli Kulp. Baker Alexandre Bois has turned High Street into the […]

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Grilled Cheese That’s as Good as It Gets

Brian Freedman reviews Meltkraft, the grilled cheese stand that’s part of the Valley Shephard Creamery in the Reading Terminal. The grilled cheeses are of course […]

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Cheap Eats: Wishbone

Wishbone is a curious name for a chicken shop that can go weeks without serving any sort of bone at all.  Alan Segel and Dave […]

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The Revisit: Southwark

The easiest way to tell a bar from a restaurant is by the smell of the men’s room. I couldn’t keep that thought away from […]

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Where We’re Eating: Han Dynasty

Han Chiang has graduated, shutting down his beloved (if small) Han Dynasty in Old City and moving the Szechuan restaurant across the street into the enormous, […]