>favorite restaurants >go to dish don't shit up the thread with 300 replies sperging about cheesesteaks. i know there are a lot of phillyfags here so ne recommendations would be great, but i'm aware most of the good food is in center city.>>21373270 Is that Philadelphia's only notable building?>>21373279 its the tallest freestanding masonry building in the world (the tallest pile of rocks ever stacked by man) theres also independence hall and the art museum>>21373270 monks has the best beer menu you will find anywhere. food is not great though>>21373296 So, yes, then.>>21373290 move out of the sticks, kid but there are a lot of great restaurants around the city if you dont need to be downtown. KOP/Malvern and Conshey are pretty hot latelyForgot the name but a bar at 18th-ish and Fairmount was included on a recent list of best burgers in the country but I don't remember what number. Is the wet market at 12th and Spring Garden still around? I used to live just off ridge before they bulldozed my building, a luncheonette and its upstairs apartment, to expand the convention center. I used to buy live rabbits, quails and squab from that place. Good prices back in the day.>>21373299 Good choice anon.
I'm a moco fag and work in Philly, lived there before.
Oyster house is one of my favs and next doors Oscars dive bar.
Johns Roast pork for that and the cheese steak.
What kinda food you like anon? While I'm in the city monday to fri, I like the burbs hence moving here. So much good food out here too.>>21373299 Monks is still around? What about Nodding Head? >>21373711 I used to hang out at NH, just upstairs from Oscar's/Oyster House, back in the day. Great dip for the fries and the burgers were my favourite at the time. There was a vegan Chinese place a couple blocks down Sansom from there that I really liked, too, and the Afghan joint at the end of that block was tits. I really have no idea what's even in Philadelphia anymore.>>21373775 Singapore was the one big famous vegetarian chinese place, there was another hole in the wall on like 10th and cherry? I used to go there in college huge lunch for 5 bucks. It was americanized no meat. Afgan place like old city? Monks is still around my good friend she lives a few blocks (stumbling range) away.
Any fav diners in the city?>>21373827 >Singapore was >was Well shit. Yeah, Cherry Street Vegetarian My favorite was the one I mentioned on Sansom, Su Xing. The owner lady lived in 13th behind this place I was renting on Juniper. She's very, very tall. The Afghan place is (was?) on Sansom as well, same block as Oyster House, Oscar's and Nodding Head. Guess it's gone now, too. I'm>>21373677. When I used to live just off Ridge as well as in Chinatown proper (on 9th, same block as Ray's Teahouse; I've lived all over the city), I used to eat at the vegetarian place on 9th and Cherry, just below me. My landlady owned the restaurant but she sold off the business (not the building) because "weird, smelly white people kept stinking up the place" so she opened an HK diner in another Chinatown building she owned at the opposite end of the block that, to non Chinese, looked like a bakery (and it was) but she had a full Cantonese kitchen in the back for people to order proper food. Her cook made the best frog casserole and chicken saltfish fried rice. Anyway, as for Western diners, I really have no clue anymore. All the ones I know are gone. I used to go to the 16th Street Little Pete's so often that the elderly waitress there used to call me "Benny" because i always ordered eggs benedict. St George's on Spring Garden (it's a pizza place now, I think) was the shit when the luncheonette I lived above was closed (they were open 5am-1pm). Greek going. There was another diner right by there, too, that used to serve drinks to underage kids so all the kids from the Quaker school down the street used to go there to drink fuzzy navels. The Continental on 12th had fantastic fried chicken and I once had an extended conversation with some Japanese businessmen there who were in town for a medical device expo. I also liked that one on, like, 21st-ish and Cherry-ish when I lived in Park Towne Place. It inexplicably became a nightclub. Melrose is gone. The one in the Gallery is gone because the whole Gallery is gone.>>21373861 I don't think I've ever been there sadly. Hmm afgan place there? I guess I was blind and missed it. There was a great one on like 2nd? In old city. I've been in a few spots in city (but I'm old so lots have changed) 9th and cherry probably same place! Little Petes was always my favorite even as a kid my grandpa took me. Yeah on spring garden that changed. Funny story when I lived there I literally, bumped heads with John Street (former mayor) there.I actually lived next to the Diplo's club when I was still in grad school 12th and Spring Garden.
Either way, this entire thread made me very happy, and thanks for talking our zone food anon. I hope you have a great weekend.
