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From working-class street eats to haute cuisine, Philadelphia is a city that loves its food. When Le Bec-Fin, the revered French establishment, was renovated in 2002, Drexel University snapped up many of the original furnishings so it could re-create the interior in its student-run restaurant. Local concert promoter Stephen Starr has become a restaurant impresario (with 12 venues) by dishing out good food in entertaining environs. Access to regional ingredients from Pennsylvania Dutch farms encourages seasonal innovation, and even the restrictive state liquor laws work to the city's culinary advantage by fomenting a network of small B.Y.O.B. restaurants. We haven't included every place to get a great meal, but if you're looking for others, just ask around. Philadelphians are opinionated about food and will happily tell you where to go and what to order.
Squeezed into three adjacent Victorian row houses on one of the most enduringly charming streets in University City, the White Dog is an institution. Owner Judy...more
Unlike much of the country's recent crop of "gastropubs"—which are often just casual restaurants with an ambitious chef, Standard Tap is the genuine...more
You can get a mean eggs-over-easy breakfast and robust homemade soups at this idiosyncratic luncheonette, but sandwiches are the main attraction: Try a mound of...more
This 75,000-square-foot collection of food, craft, and houseware stalls opened in 1892 as a covered market on the street level of the great Reading Terminal....more
Philly's crowded field of BYOBs can be monotonous: Most of the genre's better examples are stuck in the Mediterranean, and one menu often blends into the next....more
The boisterous families and groups of friends that gather at this Cantonese institution (in the heart of Philly's small, yet rewarding, Chinatown) hardly...more
Since 1970, chef and owner Georges Perrier has reigned supreme at this Philadelphia landmark near Rittenhouse Square. It was redesigned in...more
The South Philly corner of South 9th Street and Passyunk Avenue is the neon-heavy carnival setting of the Philly cheesesteak wars—and the destination of...more
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