PhillyFan

I consider that Philly, sdonovan. In Manayunk, we really like Manayunk Tomato.

My friends and I had a great lunch at Little Nonna's yesterday.

And I finally visited the DiBruno Brothers at 17th and Chestnut - one can maneuver around that location MUCH easier than the Italian Market one!

BTW, when we were eating in a restaurant in Greenwich Village last weekend, I pointed out that the dessert menu featured "capogiro gelato"!

PhillyFan

My friend and I would recommend these places, where we have been for lunch: High on Market (same owners as Fork) and Tria.

My kids (my kids! My not will eat anything kids!) loved Amada!

My husband and I had a really nice time, and meal, at Pod last night. That's on the U Penn campus.

There is a place called Revolution House with a great deck - in the winter they enclose it but it must be really nice in the summer. For Happy Hour, they have $3 beers and $6 margherita pizzas. I had a butternut squash pizza that was terrific!

jayne1973

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PhillyFan

We found another great place that describes itself as a cheese bistro:

Wedge & Fig

I had a terrific cheese sandwich and my friend said she had the best Cobb salad she ever had. It had a great buttermilk blue cheese and I purchased some to bring home with me.

Wedge & Fig is tiny but has a small garden out back that almost doubles its seating.

It's at 3rd and Race.

go_laura

Since the link to this was just shared on another thread, I feel compelled to add something. Long ago on this thread when several of us were expressing missing Naked Chocolate, I asked if anyone had another recommendation for a good European-style hot chocolate in Philly.

I don't think anyone responded to that, but I've since found it! A Venezuelan restaurant called Sazon at 10th and Spring Garden. A little off the beaten path for tourists but oh, so worth it. I love the food there, too.

Amy

Thanks, go_laura! I will definitely have to check that out, 'cause I'm still missing Naked Chocolate after all this time. And the food part should be interesting, too.

IMDonehere

Thank you for resurrecting this topic.

sf7307

The pot roast and BLT sandwiches at Smucker's in the Reading Terminal Market were both excellent! (as was the bottled horseradish sauce - I can't remember the brand - so if anyone is in the market and happens by, please remember to look and post the brand name!)

flpab

sticky buns with raisins and pecans, cheese steak loaded, we now have wawa here so get a little bit of Philly but we only get tasty cake coconut Jrs when we go north.

PhillyFan

Move over, capogiro. Cafe Gran Aquilla is in town and their gelato is excellent. The owner is from Italy and won a worldwide gelato competition. With a fellow Fodorite, we sampled the menu where savory gelato is paired with an entree. i had crab cakes with roasted red pepper gelato. It was terrific! They are open for breakfast (their coffee is supposed to be very good), lunch and dinner.

go_laura - thanks for that recommendation, will definitely have to search that out. Bufad is near there....

emd3

Omg, no Chinatown restaurants on the list? For us, Vietnam restaurant on 11th in Chinatown is the best Vietnamese we have had anywhere.

Signature dish for us is the Grilled Pork Rolls. They bring you dry rice paper with a contraption you use to wet the rice paper and stuff all the filling below in it, with the dipping sauce. Heaven. Can not go to Philly without going to Vietnam.

GRILLED PORK ROLLS
THIT NUONG CUON - Rice Paper, rice noodles, grilled pork, lettuce, bean sprouts, basil, hoisin peanut dipping sauce "not fried"

The clay pots are all phenomenally good. Duck soup is orgasmic, as is the crispy duck.

God now I cant get it all out of my mind.

flpab

Amoroso rolls, some philly steak places here in Fl ship them in.

sf7307

emd, we loved our visit to Philadelphia recently, and we LOVE Vietnamese food, so now I have to go back!