I get what they’re trying to do at Percy. I step inside the new restaurant from the Forîn crew, and I know exactly the vibe […]
On one of the hottest days of summer, we went out to eat vada and masala dosa smeared with curry-spiked potatoes and blazing red chili […]
If I were ever going to eat a whole octopus anywhere, it would be at Amá. It’s a Friday night. We’re sitting under the smooth, […]
On the floor at Emmett, the servers seem to float from table to table. The evening sun spills through venetian blinds into the dim room. […]
It was a gorgeous day on East Passyunk — bright and warm, the air full of cherry blossom petals — and the traffic in and […]
At the bar, the smiling tender pours me the best version of a Last Word I’ve had in years — gin and green Chartreuse, Midori […]
The bar fills up fast at Little Water. People roll in, sit down, group and ungroup, slip away. The crowd moves like the tide. On […]
Step into Rooster’s — the new Stove & Co. restaurant that opened in the former home of the beloved Keswick Tavern — and the first […]
I’d been at Megobari for five minutes when I texted Laura, my wife, to tell her: I love it here. I live here now. I’m […]
There is a part of me that always believed I would find myself alone at a metal bar drinking gin at the end of the […]
Under the tall ceilings at an old firehouse in Kensington near where Front meets Cecil B. Moore is Michael Solomonov’s second attempt at an oyster […]
Across the way, a photographer is bent double, trying to get a dramatic hero shot of a stack of baklava on the counter at Kamal’s. […]
Black Dragon Takeout is a place born of food deserts and demographic change. Local chef and activist Kurt Evans knew that Chinese takeout was often […]
There’s this scene in Ratatouille where Remy the rat is trying to show his brother (Emile, also a rat) that he can do better than […]
Old City needed a late-night fried chicken joint. A brunch spot. A BYOB. A place to get mac and cheese, hand pies, deviled eggs, and […]
