Is Barbuzzo Philly’s Best New Spot?

Adam Erace wonders if Barbuzzo is Philadelphia’s best new restaurant. We love his line that dining in the some of the confining seats is “as comfortable as a straitjacket.” However he no qualms with the food.

Local greens are anointed with Italian oils and salves (vin cotto on one salad, saba on another). Root vegetables are exhumed from ground and raised on pedestals. Green Meadow pigs become lardo, guanciale, sausage — find each on a pizza — and, with the help of some ground short rib, a pair of meatballs so light they’d float off their cast-iron skillet were it not for the caper-studded red pepper relish holding them down.

Buzz Words [City Paper]
Barbuzzo [Official Site]