Reviews
First Bite: Arugula Taco Salad at HipCityVeg
HipCityVeg opened today on 18th Street and the curious lined out the door onto the sidewalk to check out the Vegan quick serve spot from […]
LaBan Review Finds Flaws at Birra
Craig LaBan likes the concept of East Passyunk pizzeria and beer bar Birra, but his review highlights problems with poor execution and flawed recipes. The […]
Highlights and Missteps at Pickled Heron
Leah Blewett does experience some excellent dishes at Fishtown’s BYOB, Pickled Heron. Unfortunately there are also some stumbles. Seared scallops are tender clouds drifting on […]
Two Bells for Pickled Heron on Frankford Avenue
Craig LaBan finds enough to like from do-it-yourselfers Daniela D’Ambrosio and Todd Braley in his review of Pickled Heron on Frankford Avenue. Both trained at […]
Federal Donuts and Art In The Age: Super Friends of the Donut World
Okay, so yesterday we got the best kind of delivery to Foobooz World Headquarters: A nice box of donuts. But these were no ordinary […]
La Calaca Feliz Is Working for Fairmount
Adam Erace reviews Fairmount Avenue’s La Calaca Feliz, the Mexican bar from Cantina Feliz/Distrito vets, Tim Spinner and Brian Sirhal. What Erace finds is a […]
Vedge Bridges Gap Between Omnivores and Vegans
Brian Freedman is the latest critic to heap praise on Rich Landau’s vegan restaurant, Vedge. Richard Landau’s and Kate Jacoby’s Vedge, which resides in the […]
Beer, Hog’s Knuckles And Wieners By The Meter at Brauhaus Schmitz
It might have taken awhile for the critic to get to Brauhaus Schmitz. Now the only question is how we’re going to get him to […]
Heirloom Faces Some Challenges in Farm-to-Table Market
Heirloom faces some challenges defining itself and being true to its farm-to-table descriptor. But Trey Popp finds that you can have a good meal at […]
High Praise for Vedge
Trey Popp piles on the praise for Rich Landau’s Vedge, the vegan restaurant that thrills vegans, omnivores and oenophiles alike. In my first meal—one of […]
Lemon Hill Upgrades the Corner Pub
Adam Erace enjoys the precise cooking of Mitch Prensky at Lemon Hill but he also has praise for another hand in the kitchen of the […]
Restaurant Review: Vedge
Vedge 1221 Locust Street 215-320-7500 Three and a half stars. Cuisine: Deceptively vegan. Small Plates: $6 to $16. Consider the radish. […]
Restaurant Review: Heirloom
Heirloom 8705 Germantown Avenue 215-242-2700 Two stars. Cuisine: Americana. Entrées: $17 to $29. “No, we’re not a Chinese restaurant,” […]
More Praise for Ela
Brian Freedman is the latest to heap praise on Jason Cichonski and his Queen Village restaurant, Ela. Only thing different is that Freedman was not […]