Lark
The area's one true destination restaurant has perfectly prepared plates that make you close your eyes in appreciation after every bite, all within a gorgeous setting on the seventh floor of a Residence Inn. Seafood offerings are where the delicacy of its flavors excel the most—the sumac octopus, the dorade with a hint of chili, but the \"simple\" small plates like the grilled artichoke are worth investigating. In fact, like many such restaurants, you can do well by ordering lots of small plates and a pasta dish or two (also on the smaller side) to experience as many flavors as possible and forgo the mains. The restaurant is part of the Ironworks at Pencoyd Landing complex, and across the river in Bala Cynwyd, but a (mostly) pedestrian bridge connects it to Manayunk from a free parking lot.
