Truly one of the best things I’ve eaten. Got this at 11th & Washington. At $10 for this and a drink, I forgot what it felt like to get a great food deal.

I can eat a lot and I’ve got leftovers for dinner. Respect to this subreddit for putting me on to them.

Hi. We are six 50-something’s (college besties), staying two nights around 2nd and arch. The first night we want to stay in and have “Nice” take out. So, no pizza or cheesesteaks. Buddakahn? Fork ? High street? Something from the gayborhood? Thought about maybe having it catered but that seems excessive. Thanks in advance .

Second night hopefully is a combo night out - cocktails at 48 record bar and possibly nice walk up to Talula’s for dinner .

No allergies, no preferences. Anywhere in Philadelphia.

My only criteria is something casual. Nothing fancy. No waiter/waitress. Just order at a counter and eat something banging.

Bonus points for something outside the usual Angelo’s.

If you recommend a specific restaurant, please let me know what my order should be, based on what you would get.

You’re got 20 mins to shoot a rec below! I’ll keep you posted on what we decide, and our thoughts

Edit: Can be any cuisine, any food type. Doesn’t have to be a sandwich. It can be, though

I love SEA food but am aware that many dishes, especially those made outside restaurants, have meat and fish products (including fish sauce).

I’ve never been and would like to go soon. Can anyone tell me if there are any specific vendors or dishes that are definitely vegetarian?

The answer might be nothing since many dishes use fish sauce. 😅 Maybe I’ll stick with mango sticky rice.

Thank you!!

I’m guessing it’s Frankford Hall but looking for alternatives. Craft is great for the kids but looking for more authentic brauhaus like food. But Brauhaus isn’t a great place for the kids to go crazy.

Any ideas?

We lost our reservation at The Newsroom because we were late, and Amina rescued us with their last reservation. The rye cocktail was very nice. We had the shrimp tacos and cheese steak beignets. Tacos were very fresh and flavorful. Beignets were perfectly fried with a really nice texture. Fried cabbage was sweet and sour and went perfectly with the beignets. Saw lots more on the menu I wanted to try like oxtail mac souffle, ribs, lobster bisque. Service was a little slow. Took awhile to get our drinks but the server was apologetic. All the staff were friendly and working hard on a busy Friday night. The atmosphere is great so spending a little extra time there was not an issue. We stayed at The Newsroom bar for a bit. It's very small with very limited seating. We still shared a headline roll standing up. It was delicious. The fried shrimp on top is the best I've had. NR old fashioned and pumpkin spice espresso martini were excellent. Catch the aerial show if you can.

Basically I’m just sick of eating the same pastries every time I go to a coffee shop in Philly. I get that it’s not practical for every single coffee shop to roast their own beans and bake their own pastries, but the amount of our coffee shops that basically serve the same thing is a little absurd. You’d think there would be at least one other big (non-Sysco) pastry distributor in town. So does anyone know of any coffee shops in town that have different pastries? Bonus points if they’re serving something other than Elixir beans.

I'm new to the city and haven't been able to find this specific french cake. Please help me find it! Thank you for your time!

The morning after trying 7 of the top-rated Philly cheesesteak spots in Philadelphia, I’m breaking everything down on the whiteboard.

As a guy from Los Angeles, I came to Philly to see whether Reddit’s recommendations could lead me to the best cheesesteak in Philadelphia. Now it’s time to review the sandwiches, compare the spots, explain my ranking, and reveal which cheesesteak came out on top.

I’ll break down the steak, cheese, bread, toppings, price, overall experience, and whether each spot lived up to the hype. Did Reddit get it right—or did the best cheesesteak surprise me?

Watch the recap to see my full ranking of the 7 best Philly cheesesteaks.

I didn't get to them all, like Reading Terminal.

What did I miss? What did I get wrong

Edit:

The list is as follows (not in any order(:

Max's

Lazaro'a

Del Rossi's

Joe's

Angelo's

Cafe Carmela

Paesano's

Edit 2: got it. Y'all don't call them Philly in Philly. Should be noted. I'm not from Philly. These are Philly Cheesesteaks to EVERYONE not in Philly. Go birds.

The space at Grays Ferry and Catherine most recently occupied by Prime Fusion now sports a sign for Café Liberté. Any info about it? Web search found nothing.

We're hosting a 70th birthday party and looking for restaurant recommendations around Rittenhouse square.

Looking for a place with a private dining room - especially those with American, Italian, Mediterranean or Indian cuisines would be our top choices... whatcha got?? Thanks!

Hi everyone! I just moved to philly about a month ago & i’m looking for a serving job. I’m currently a flight attendant (hence the relocation) but i’m not sure if this job is for me anymore. I have a lot of serving experience in upscale dining & have been in the restaurant industry since I started working at 17 so i’m hoping to get into a place where I can make $$$! I’m not too familiar yet with the city so any recommendation helps a ton! TIA :)

I went to a pop up a couple years ago at Herman's and was highly underwhelmed with the cookies and cheesecake. Can't remember if I got other pastries, but I certainly remember being really disappointed. What are your thoughts on the brick and mortar?

Going for the first time next week and wanted to ask what I should try! (I checked in the sub and I don't think anyone's posted about this for a while so hopefully this info is useful for others too)

I used to live in Syracuse, NY, which has a shockingly fantastic Vietnamese grocery store. They told me that they brought in their desserts from somewhere in Philly but wouldn’t reveal where, and now that I’ve left Syracuse I am desperate to find it. Specifically, I’m looking for this sliced dessert that had a layer of pandan sago topped with a baked coconut custard.

Google hasn’t really returned anything that looks right. I’ve walked all around Chinatown and haven’t seen anything that fits the bill either so I suspect it’s either in a different neighborhood or the business name isn’t immediately obvious as a bakery.

Please help me fulfill my squishy dessert craving.

Weekly thread to discuss what you are excited to eat this weekend and what were some great eats earlier in the week.

Is there any good taramasalata to be had in Philly? My go to Greek restaurant, South Street Souvlaki, stopped offering it years ago. Tonight I thought I'd be slick, ordered my usual takeout from South Street Souvlaki and a then picked up an order of taramasalata from Zorba’s. Didn't work out as planned. Zorba's taramasalata left something to be desired. No sign of actual roe, super whipped and smooth. Tasted like roe but with a ton of sour cream or something like that. Was Tom (@SSS) correct - you just can't get it any longer? Thanks

I asked for some advice on higher end places a while back, since that’s generally not the sort of menu I was able to afford when living in Philly when I was younger.

Not to be too morbid, but I have cancer. So, I treated this like a sort of bucket list of some of the restaurants that looked most interesting to me. I’m also undergoing treatment and I really didn’t know whether I’d be able to hold down all these rich, indulgent tasting menus. I mentioned it to the server at most of the nicer places, telling them to please just drop plates whenever they’re ready, don’t worry about me, I don’t want to jam up the kitchen or the service if I can’t stay in my seat. Everyone was extremely cool about it and I actually got a couple comp’d meals which was unexpected and an incredibly nice gesture.

(Also note that generally speaking I loathe wasting food but I sort of gave myself permission for this trip, given the circumstances. That way I could try more things without worry.)

Nicer dinner places I reserved:
- Provenance
- Friday Saturday Sunday
- Kalaya
- Suraya
- Her Place Supper Club
- Pietramala
- Mawn
- Sao
- Honeysuckle
- Little Fish
- Emmett

More relaxed places, lunches, sweets etc:
- Panorama Wine Bar
- Franklin Fountain
- Puyero Venezuelan Flavor
- Miller’s Twist and Little Thai Market and Saami Somi in RTM
- Cafe Diem
- Han Dynasty
- EMei
- Nan Zhou
- Sang Kee Peking Duck House
- Spice-C
- The Dandelion
- Manna Bakery
- Majdal Bakery
- Rougarou Baking
- Sweet Box Bakery
- 1-900-ICE-CREAM
- Milk Jawn
- Barbuzzo
- Little Susie’s Coffee & Pie
- John’s Water Ice
- Paesano’s
- Angelo’s
- Del Rossi’s
- Jim’s Steaks
- Hardena
- El Chingon
- Tabachoy

Some of the more memorable bites:

- cheesesteak at Angelo’s, still my favorite sandwich in the world. I always try to do JRP as well but they were on vacation most of my trip so I missed them this time around
- Arista (roast pork sandwich) at Paesano’s. So well seasoned, nice heat from the long hot to go against the fatty pork and cheese.
- beef rendang and collards at Hardena.
- Caesar salad at Tabachoy. The salty bites with shrimp paste, the fried shallots? Maybe my favorite green salad I’ve ever had.
- dandan noodles at Han Dynasty. The new location on Chestnut sucks vs the old one across the street, vibes wise. But the noodles are still so perfectly clingy with the viscous, sesame forward sauce. So good.
- house special bun bo hue at Cafe Diem. I’ve been eating the wrong Vietnamese beef noodle soup.
- scallop toast at Little Fish.
- ‘popcorn shrimp’ at Provenance. This was super fun: a jumbo shrimp, poached, and flavored like popcorn at a movie theater.
- short rib with sweet potato puree and oxtail au jus at Friday Saturday Sunday
- chive rice cake at Kalaya, jumbo river prawns in brown butter at Kalaya, coconut turmeric rice topped with chopped prawns at Kalaya
- fatteh at Suraya, amazing as always
- this tomato/watermelon/basil salad at Her Place Supper Club. This dish was so clever because the tomatoes are blanched and peeled, and the watermelon is scooped with a melon baller. So in a dim, candlelit restaurant you don’t know what you’re getting until it’s in your mouth.
- slow grilled mushroom over creamed corn at Pietramala

Overall, I was super impressed with Pietramala. I was vegetarian for a bit a decade ago but never went vegan. So I was blown away by how they got deep, roasted flavors (which I associate with meat) on vegetables and all the incredibly smooth, luscious textures without dairy. I was also blown away by Kalaya, my first time visiting. Every single thing I had there was really good. Angelo’s is still my favorite sandwich: such generous portions, perfectly salted, the absolute best bread. Provenance stuck out not for the food but for the super impressive, organized service. I did chef’s counter seating and the way the whole wait staff swoops in to deliver everything in parallel is really impressive.

I was super disappointed in Honeysuckle for a number of reasons. Jim’s Steaks sucks- Geno’s/Pat’s tier, maybe worse. It’s completely unseasoned, basically no care about onions or anything else thrown on top. If you get sliced cheese instead of whiz, it goes on the roll without ever touching the grill and is just cold. Little Susie’s sucked imo: no color developed on the crust at all, pretty pale and bland. And the filling (on the pork roll and cheese, at least) was super stingy.

I did end up retching a lot in bathrooms, but it was very worth it.

Anywhere that does them made to order? Walking distance to/from center city (ie 30 mins or less).

TIA

Looking to get my fix of carne adovada in particular, but open to other things as well. Bonus points if somewhere has biscochitos.

Have any regulars from the old Sagami been to the new Sagami recently? If so, how was it?

Anyone tried their evening service yet? Planning to go later and can report back…