Res Ipsa

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Goodbye, Res Ipsa Cafe

Back when things weren’t the way they are now, people would always ask me what my favorite restaurant in Philly was. My answer was that […]

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Are Philly’s All-Day Cafes Built to Last?

All-day restaurants — places that serve food at all hours of the day — aren’t novel. (Think: 24-hour diners; all the cafes in Paris.) But […]

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Family-Style Dining Is Making Philly’s Tasting Menus Fun Again

Multi-course tasting menus aren’t for everyone. Personally, I rarely crave the experience: a hushed, white-tableclothed room, plates served one at a time. It’s a type of dining that obviously has […]

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Millennial-Owned Restaurants Are Changing the Way We Dine

In Philly, restaurant trends have their time and place. Take 2013, when every local bakery started serving its own version of the New York cronut. […]

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Eat This Now: Sicilian “Calzone” at Res Ipsa

With breakfast, lunch, and some of the best pasta dishes in the city, Res Ipsa already has a lot going on — including dinner service Wednesday […]

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2017 Year in Reviews, Part Two

With the end of the year fast approaching, we’re wrapping things up with a 3-part look back at the restaurants that moved us, disappointed us […]

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Two Philly Restaurants Make the Bon Appétit List of Best New Restaurants in America

This morning, Andrew Knowlton and Julia Kramer from Bon Appétit dropped their list of 50 finalists for their 2017 America’s Best New Restaurants list. It’s divided by […]

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Here Are 9 Popular Junk Foods Philly Does Better

There was a time — long before food blogs existed, long before the rise of cheflebrities — when the world assumed kitchen workers ate like royalty at home — […]

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Next Big Thing: Res Ipsa Reviewed

“So, how was dinner?” I get this a lot. Obviously. Life that I live, things that I do, people I know, it’s the most common […]

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First Look: Res Ipsa

In Latin, the phrase res ipsa loquitur means “the thing that speaks for itself.” And the recently-opened all-day cafe by Reanimator Coffee and Tyler Akin […]

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Now Open: Res Ipsa Cafe

The all-day cafe is the new fast-casual. Or anyway, that’s certainly how it seems with the recent surge of these hybrid coffeshop/bar/restaurants we’ve seen around […]