Playlists
Review: Bar Ferdinand
Tapas are perfect — they are delicious, non–committal, Spanish and allow you to dine with raging ADD.
Review: Cochon
“Really, order anything pork.” Our waiter's recommendation, as unpretentious yet as enticing as the restaurant’s food itself, perfectly sums up South Philly’s Cochon.
Review: Desi Chaat House
Desi Chaat House provides some much–needed diversity to the campus Indian food scene. All too often, your average Indian buffet leaves you feeling stuffed to the brim — so much so that the samosa you forced down might cause you to burst.
Review: Dim Sum Garden
Buried beneath an underpass on the edge of Chinatown, Dim Sum Garden initially looks like a restaurant that promises food poisoning.
Review: Creperie Beau Monde
Standing two floors tall on the corner of 6th and Bainbridge streets, just one block off South, Creperie Beau Monde offers tasty, French–inspired fare in a cozy, country garden atmosphere. Despite the name, it’s not just another crepe place.
Review: Twenty Manning Grill
Twenty Manning long posited itself as the Philadelphia bastion of casual, all–American dining. The strength of its menu lay in its ability to provide hearty classics with the vital facelift needed to supersede previous expectations.
Review: Hoof + Fin
Sandwiched between the quaint shops and quiet residences of Third Street lies Hoof + Fin, an Argentinean–inspired BYO from famed New Jersey chef Lucas Manteca.
Review: Landmark Americana
Penn students don’t often venture to Drexel’s campus, but there’s at least one destination that is worth checking out.
Review: James
Most people who venture several blocks off of South Street are usually lost on their way to a kinky costume shop, anarchist bookstore, or Jim’s cheesesteaks.
Review: Honest Tom's Taco Truck
Honest Tom’s Taco Shop is just far enough from the center of campus for it to be off most students’ radars.
Review Triumph Brewery
In a city that’s practically synonymous with craft beer, Triumph Brewing Company raises the bar with inventive and hearty fare in an atmosphere worthy of classy beer aficionados.
Review: Catahoula
Three months old, Catahoula serves up genuine Creole flavors in a bar–style restaurant that still feels homey.
Review: Xotchil
As you walk into the vibrant interior of Xochitl (pronounced “So–Cheet”) in Head House Square, it’s easy to tell that it’s not your traditional Mexican restaurant.
Review: 1601
Getting to 1601 is kind of sketchy. The restaurant looks, from the outside, almost as seedy as the surrounding streets.
Spook, Spook, Spookadelphia
We live in a scary time. An unstable economy, frequent natural disasters, the threat of terrorism.
Overheards: 10.28.2010
Slightly tipsy Street Editor: Wow. The moon is moving really fast tonight. Bro at City Tap House: Are we trying to get drunk and pantsless tonight, or what? History TA: Questions?
The Gutter: 10.28.2010
The season of slutty iterations of otherwise banal costume ideas is upon us! Hello slutty asparagus!
Dispathes: The Line
9:00 p.m.: Arrive. Set up our beds (twin air mattress for two). 9:28 p.m.: Everyone is corralled into the Palestra.
I Pledge Allegiance
I suppose I should begin this tirade with an admission. Despite the fact that I am in possession of a rather acute British accent, and despite the fact that I am constantly extolling the virtues of my Middle–Eastern background, I am, well, an American.
