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Restaurant Review: The Gaslight

If you’re comfortable looking a bartender straight in the eye and asking for a Sex Panther, then girl, does Jason Cichonski have the bar for […]

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First Bite: Hai Street Kitchen & Co.

I did not make it to Hai Street Kitchen & Co. yesterday for the free maki rolls. However, occasional Foobooz contributor Fidel Gastro did brave the […]

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Tale of the Tape: Jake’s Sandwich Board

Center City Philadelphia isn’t quite a cheesesteak desert but besides the new Steve’s and several options at the Reading Terminal, most of your cheesesteak options […]

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Three Bells for Eli Collins and Pub & Kitchen

Craig LaBan revisits Pub & Kitchen at 20th and Lombard and finds that the corner hot spot has gone from gastropub to restaurant with a […]

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The Revisit: Rex 1516

Restaurant chefs sure ain’t what they used to be. Once they were stalwarts who manned the stoves in obscurity, if not outright anonymity, cooking for […]

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Where We’re Eating: Black Powder Tavern in Wayne

If you’re a restaurant, one way to start things off on the wrong foot is to make customers wait — and wait — for their […]

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Where We’re Eating: Brunch at the Gaslight

Brunch is typically the most fun meal of the week. Friends get together, tell stories of the weekend and, hopefully, laugh a lot. At the […]

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Where We’re Eating: Ye Olde Ale House

Every town should have a cozy bar with cheap beers, friendly servers and fantastic sandwiches. For Lafayette Hill, that bar is Ye Olde Ale House. […]

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Philadelphia Restaurant Review: The Fat Ham

It’s not the sort of thing a food critic is supposed to say, but my favorite bite of the year might just be a piece […]

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Philadelphia Restaurant Review: Pizzeria Beddia

Joe Beddia would’ve flunked out of Wharton for sure. Consider the pizzaiolo’s business plan. He offers three pies, whole only, in a Fishtown storefront that’s […]

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Sex Panther Obscures the Gaslight’s Potential

Adam Erace has some problems with the food at the Gaslight, but that’s nothing compared to what he had to say about the drinks.  The […]

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The Revisit: A.Kitchen

You know those people who go to new restaurants purely to order the same dish they order everywhere else? Because the “litmus test” of a […]

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PHL’s Local Offers Real Food

The last several times I’ve been to Philadelphia International Airport I’ve considered making the trek down to Terminal F to try out Jose Garces’s menu […]

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Where We’re Eating: Vernick Food + Drink

I can remember, a long time ago, back when Greg Vernick was first opening his eponymous restaurant on Walnut Street and the early reviews were […]

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Where We’re Eating: Vietnam

On a recent visit to one of the many hole-in-the-wall pho joints on Washington Avenue, I saw a table of large white construction workers slurping […]