Carman's Country Kitchen
1301 S. 11th Street
(215) 339-9613
The sign next to my table at Carman's Country Kitchen, on 11th and Wharton in South Philly, proclaimed that the eatery "put the cunt back in country." The same motto was on the side of the restaurant's pickup truck, parked on the street outside the window.
The story broke just before lunch one Thursday afternoon this past October. Gawker, the popular Manhattan media blog, had uncovered someone so heinous - or as they put it, a "mindbogglingly douchey douchebag"- that they dubbed him "The Worst Person in the World." Within hours, John Fitzgerald Page's crime had been disseminated so widely and grown to such heights of infamy that he was being harassed, ridiculed and judged by millions of strangers hailing from the farthest reaches of the Internet.
Honey's Sit 'n Eat
800 N. 4th Street
(215) 925-1150
Ec-lec-tic (adj.): Eggs scrambled with tomatoes, jalapenos and chorizo served on challah bread with latkes and a slice of honeydew on the side.