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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Eat, Drink and Enjoy Stateside

City Life

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. […]

City Life

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,” […]

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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 […]

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First Bite: Nom Nom Ramen

With Philadelphia magazine offices just a half-block from Nom Nom Ramen there was no excuse to not be at 18th and Ludlow when the doors opened at […]

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Stateside Receives Enthusiastic Two Bell Review

George Sabatino and Stateside on East Passyunk get a praise-filled two bell review from Craig LaBan. Whether Sabatino can more than double his kitchen’s already labor-intensive […]

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Route 6 Gets One Bell Review

Craig LaBan reviews Route 6, Stephen Starr’s East Coast seafood restaurant and  takes it to task for not being enough of a Philadelphia fish house […]

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Around the Web: Le Virtu Preferred, Duck Eggs and Bargain Banh Mi

Of Osteria, Amis and Le Virtu, Mac & Cheese prefers Le Virtu. [Mac & Cheese] After reading Rick Nichols’ account of the duck eggs from Paul […]