La Jefa in Rittenhouse is part-cafe and part-lounge, where every beverage, whether caffeinated, decaffeinated, fermented, or ...

If you’ve ever heard a familiar playlist and immediately relaxed, that’s the feeling of your cortisol decreasing and a positive mood state setting in. Serra Calvert, a 29-year-old bartender, had just ...

Walk through the very same facade that’s existed since the 1930s if you want the bar menu rather than seated dinner. The ...

While there is straight-up sushi, we found the rice dense and overcooked. Better to stick with Uchi classics like the hama ...

Maddy Sweitzer-Lamme is a freelance food and travel journalist based in Philadelphia. She writes about all things restaurants, and loves giving readers the inside scoop. After several years of ...

With nearly two dozen countries across three continents bordering the Mediterranean Sea, it would be an understatement to say Mediterranean cuisine is vast. In Philadelphia, the influence of these ...

Spicy Thai curry paste, warming masala, or Burmese sweet curry? Thanks to Philadelphia’s diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, you can make dishes with all three. Go beyond ...

For once, Sonam Parikh would like to be written about for being the best. “Not just the gay best,” Parikh says, sitting on the curb in the backyard of Mina’s World, the coffee shop that Parikh runs ...