![]() ![]() Perhaps you’ve already stopped reading these prefatory words entirely out of an obsession with said digits. It asks, 50 times over, how likely are you to shout from the rooftops about a dining experience, or demand that a friend cross the city for dim sum and vegan polenta and jerk chicken, or spend hard-earned money on an anniversary dinner?Īnd by now, I’m sure you’ve noticed that this year’s guide involves hot little numbers. ![]() This 50 Best list is the result of nearly a year’s worth of dining out, sometimes four or five or six nights a week. How could I have known that Philly’s best special-occasion meals would feel deeply personal right now, as they do at Friday Saturday Sunday, Her Place Supper Club, and Royal Sushi Omakase? How could I have anticipated that within minutes of plopping into my seat at Pietramala, Càphê Roasters, Irwin’s or El Mezcal Cantina, uncomplicated friendliness and a glass of Philly tap would make me realize that I belonged back in my hometown? (I grew up here this wasn’t a shock.) But after a hiatus from our city during which I wrote about restaurants and bars in NYC, I couldn’t have predicted the care and energy with which Philly’s restaurants would reposition themselves in this sorta-post-COVID world. Which is to say, a Philadelphian’s unrelenting access to foods of all kinds. When I first signed on to be this magazine’s food editor, I was prepared for what I call Philly Restaurant Privilege. I knew what she meant: the revived freedom of schmoozing in a dining room without an iPhone in sight, the creativity coming out of Philly kitchens and onto plates, that bubbling, symbiotic joy that takes place only when everyone in a restaurant’s ecosystem - the diners, the porters, the front-of-house staff, the cooks - genuinely wants to be there. ![]() Not so long ago, a friend texted me to say that for the first time in years, she was having Fun eating in Philly’s restaurants. Royal Sushi & Izakaya / Photograph by Jesse Ito ![]()
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