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Roberto Café

Drew Lazor checks out Roberto Café in G-Ho to find out what all the crowds are about. He’s left wondering. It’s anyone’s guess as to […]

Restaurants

Quick Bites

Table Talk looks back on the restaurant scene in 2006 as well as looks forward to 2007. [Table Talk, Philadelphia Inquirer] Could the House of […]

City Life

Wedding Details: Picture This

In black-and-white, color or sepia, there’s something old and something new in capturing your Big Day on film. Among choosing a venue, your dress, your […]

City Life

BOP Spotlight: Burger

Ignore the spare, food-court-ugly red-and-white-tile decor, and concentrate on decorating your $4.29 burger — with fried onions, sautéed mushrooms, lettuce and tomato, jalapeño peppers, relish […]

City Life

Taste: Tapas Today

Northern Liberties is looking more like Old City every day, as new condos gobble up Northern Liberties is looking more like Old City every day, […]

City Life

What to Drink: St. Emilion Château Teyssier 2003

Bordeaux is France’s largest and most renowned wine region, and its native red Bordeaux is France’s largest and most renowned wine region, and its native […]

City Life

60-Second Critic: Vintage Views Philadelphia

Vintage Views Philadelphia (Aesthetic Press; $12.99) Both the ordinary and the extraordinary history of our city are captured in this calendar edited by contemporary photographer […]

City Life

Gut-Busting Gothic

You don't have to be a Brontë fan to shriek — with laughter — at the Walnut Street Theatre's staging of The Mystery of Irma […]

Restaurants

Kitchen 233

Kirsten Henri braves the jughandles and poorly marked roads of New Jersy to check out Kitchen 233 in Westmont. She finds “Kitchen 233 is another […]

Restaurants

What The Pros Want

Zagat asks restaurant industry insiders what they would like to see more and less of in 2007. Among those quoted are Philadelphia heavy hitters, Jose […]

Restaurants

Gayle Waiving Corkage Fee

Sister restaurant Rae may have been getting all the buzz recently, but Gayle is celebrating its one year anniversary in January. And to celebrate they’ll […]

Restaurants

Isla Ibiza

Phyllis Stein-Novack heads to the northern fringe of Northern Liberties and tries another Spanish restaurant, Isla Ibiza. And she finds it to be one of […]

City Life

BOP Spotlight: Furniture Worth Splurging On

Most of the items don’t wear price tags at this swank contemporary furniture mecca, where leather-upholstered beds and sectional sofas can run you close to […]

City Life

Homefront: Screen Play

It was more than the luck of the draw that led Nick Rye to paint the larger- than-life images that decorate his panel It was […]

City Life

Home: Paradise Found

A North Wilmington retreat called Frog Hollow is a modern-day Eden for its owners and their amphibian friends As Eve Thyrum heads into her garden, […]