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Trey Popp

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Peter Serpico Offers an Excellent Choose Your Own Adventure

Whether you want eat like a yoga instructor or a weightlifter, Trey Popp finds that Serpico provides an excellent adventure. The evening can begin in […]

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Trying To Do Right at Morgan’s Pier

Trey Popp laments the loss of George Sabatino’s $30 three-course dinner menu at Morgan’s Pier. On the first weekend of June, four weeks after it […]

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Unorthodox Indian at Indeblue

Trey Popp visits Indeblue’s Midtown Village location and finds that chef Rakesh Ramola is willing to go far afield in order to appeal to Philadelphia diners. […]

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Fitler Dining Room: Ghosts of Dining Rooms Past

Every so often I’m asked how often the opinions of Craig LaBan and Trey Popp differ. Here’s one such case. LaBan heaped the praise on […]

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Cheu Noodle Bar: Where Noodles are Just Where the Weirdness Starts

Matyson chef Ben Puchowitz’s Cheu Noodle Bar with partner Shawn Darragh pumps out a sometimes schizophrenic smorgasbord where, surprisingly, noodles won’t be what keeps you […]

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The Revisit: Sbraga

You know it’s a bad sign when a restaurant’s worst item offers its best food for thought. Such was the case for the “cheesesteak soup […]

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The Plain Truth: Goat Hollow

Trey Popp finds much of Goat Hollow to be hit-or-miss but he still seems to like it. This warm and unassuming spot has enough going […]

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Tavro 13 Reviewed

Terence Feury goes to Swedesboro and opens Tavro 13. But Trey Popp asks, is he what Swedesboro wants? Feury is cooking as compellingly as ever. […]

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The Revisit: Zavino

A server who gets her customers laughing has them right where she wants them, but the bartender at Zavino had an unfair advantage on a […]

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Red Owl Tavern Stumbles Out of the Gate

Red Owl Tavern couldn’t put it all together for Trey Popp as the restaurant in the Hotel Monaco was the definition of hit-or-miss. Such was […]

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With Sophia’s, Christopher Lee Has Returned to Philly. Kinda

Trey Popp reviews Sophia’s, the East Passyunk restaurant of Philadelphia’s prodigal son, Christopher Lee. What he finds is that Lee is only kind of involved. […]

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The Old-School Excellence of Fork

Trey Popp reviews Fork, the 15-year old dining institution in Old City that, thanks to New York import, Eli Kulp, is suddenly as fresh as […]

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Answering a Higher Calling at Citron and Rose

David Magerman set out to open a kosher Subway. What he got instead was a whole lot better. Trey Popp reviews Citron and Rose. I’d […]

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Ouch! No Stars for the Saint James

Trey Popp reviews the Saint James in Ardmore. What was once the culinary hope of the Main Line gets savaged. Gnocchi with braised brisket featured […]

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Enamel and Iron Star Alongside Michael Santoro’s Cooking at the Mildred

Michael Santoro’s cooking at the Mildred might seem like a departure from what he did at Talula’s Garden but rest assured, Trey Popp finds lots […]