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Restaurant Review: Bank & Bourbon

  Pity the Philadelphia hotel restaurant. City dwellers will flock to food trucks, night markets, pop-up gardens and pizzerias with no seats, but just try […]

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Restaurant Review: Paris Bistro

By the time Gary Cattley maneuvered his tuba into Paris Bistro’s basement, Drew Nugent & the Midnight Society had been ragging Tin Pan Alley curios […]

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The Revisit: Vedge

Consider the radish… When I reviewed Vedge two-and-a-half years ago, that was my opening line. Sometimes I wonder how many people stopped reading after the […]

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The Revisit: Stateside

The folk of East Passyunk Avenue dwell within an embarrassment of restaurant riches, but when the weather’s as lovely as it was at the beginning […]

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Restaurant Review: Society Hill Society

In the annals of faint praise, neighborhood restaurant is a peculiar epithet. People usually apply it to the places that make them feel most welcome. […]

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Restaurant Review: Crow & the Pitcher

For food-obsessed Philadelphians, the first half of August unfolded like a rigged game of Two Truths and a Lie. In case you were down the […]

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Restaurant Review: Junto

“Do you know of any deserving young beginner lately set up,” members of Ben Franklin’s mutual aid society would ask one another, “whom it lies […]

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Restaurant Review: Charlie Was a Sinner

Just how much sinning do you like to do over dinner? That’s a good question to chew on at Nicole Marquis’s mysterious new bar on […]

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By The Numbers: A Fantastic Year For Philly Restaurants

I was talking with Philly mag restaurant critic Trey Popp the other day, and we were discussing (as we so often do) the state of […]

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The Revisit: Amada

When he opened Amada nine years ago, Jose Garces had two visions for his debut restaurant. Only one survived—succeeding so lucratively that it suffocated the […]

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Restaurant Review: CoZara

We here at Philadelphia magazine decided last month to start debuting restaurant reviews early on Foobooz. We had reasons. And we discussed them here. Welcome to […]

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Restaurant Review: Townsend

We here at Philadelphia magazine decided last month to start debuting restaurant reviews early on Foobooz. We had reasons. And we discussed them here. Welcome […]

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The Revisit: Lolita

“You can drink as many of these as you want,” our server said brightly. “They’re good for you!” The concoction in question, a Green Garden […]

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Checking In At Bar Volver

People go to bars for all kinds of reasons. To hang out with neighbors over three-dollar lagers. To knock back Beam-and-Pabst specials while stomping their […]

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Restaurant Review: The Treemont

If a tree falls in a forest with no one to hear it, is there a sound? That may be the question for the Treemont. […]