Living in Philadelphia

Nice work, heh. Yeah, if you walk along 2nd and 3rd just north of Market there are shops, galleries, etc. It's a nice area to walk around in... plus there is a coffeeshop that legendary radio personality Jerry Blavat ("The Geator") frequents. Alas, Danny Bonaduce left the neighborhood last year, but you can probably still drink in his spirit. Eww.

Chifa, hmmm, haven't encountered any feedback on that place. Sounds interesting tho. Cool, I've always been curious about that brasserie jawn

Funny, you don't strike me as a brasserie kind of guy.

I don't strike me as being that kind of guy either, which may partly explain why I've never been there. I imagine that it's exactly like a cross between Arby's and Dunkin Donuts, except with outdoor seating, topless servers and maybe better coffee

Ha, we got rookered onto a double-decker city bus tour. :(

oh no haha

"It was Benjamin Franklin who said 'Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy blah blah blah

I bet the Mutter Museum made you hungry.

Mutter Museum Cafeteria #terribleideas

Omg please live blog double decker bus tour

Parc is sorta known as the place that has just-OK food but is *the* place to go see and be see

Our tour guide said that Ray's is the best place for ice coffee. True?

Just saw the Barnes collection--actually very good!

a lot of controversy over the barnes move

nb i haven't seen it in the new location yet

What is Ray's? I know nothing abt coffee here but the best place for tea is Cups and Chairs at 5th and Monroe, period.

i finally move back here and this fucking commute to the burbs means i'm actually in the city all of two minutes a week.

which burb are u in?

my friends kip & sheri own this place:

http://www.southwarkrestaurant.com/index.cfm

you guys should go there for a drink. tell them scott sent you. then they will charge you double!! hahaha!

you know you want this strongo-esque drink:

Ocean Shore
gin, sloe gin, orgeat,
lemon, egg white

Dude I work literally 4 or 6 doors down from that place!

The adorable bearish chef always comes in and buys veggies and stuff.

say hi from me. i haven't seen those guys in so long. i never go to philly :(

I've never been in! It looks fancy. Also I don't know how to not-weirdly be all "oh hey I know Scott from the internet and he says wassup"

kip and sheri are great though. very friendly and cool. kip is an amazing bartender. old-school.

i once told somebody 'oh hey i know jaymc from the internet' and they were like, 'oh yeah, cool'

I just googled them and I totally know exactly who that guy is; he's always super friendly and I showed him this fancy tonic water we sell that I think he liked.

Maybe I should text you a list of all the things he buys so you can allude to them and freak him out

This opens this evening at Fleisher/Ollman. I'm clueless as to exactly what it entails, but they usually have interesting stuff there

http://fleisher-ollmangallery.com/pix/current_small.jpg

Please rate these Philadelphia establishments, recommended to me by a random local I met at Tank Bar.

Bob & Barbara's, El Fuego, Oscar's, Little Pete's, 4th Street Deli, Tony Luke's. I was not so inebriated that I neglected to take notes.

tony luke's has been my go-to for sandwiches & cheesesteaks for a long time

worried that they 'sold out' because they have a stand at citizens bank

dayo y don't we hang out?

Funny, you don't strike me as a "cheesesteak" kind of guy.

tony luke's above all those imo. roast pork and broccoli rabe, yo. little pete's is okay if you're drunk and it's late, or if you're stranded overnight waiting for the first regional line out of the city. there are definitely better diners, but i am lucky to be not far from a couple of them. oscar's is a hole-in-the-wall that has good cheap beer specials (i used to hit it up every friday for a couple before going home when i worked a few blocks away) and did a surprisingly edible cheesesteak (at least they did a decade ago), but nothing worth searching out unless you already happen to be there drinking. bob and barbara's is an institution, with all the positives and negatives that implies. ditto fourth street deli. el fuego i've passed by a bunch of times but never been. might be pretty good, food-wise, but seems hipsterish, clientele-wise. my favorite cheap burritos in the city are still santa fe's, but a large part of that is college nostalgia.

also, many days later: i am back in the city proper, living in south philly, but i am still forced to commute to the burbs for my job, until i find something here.

i will wash blood and guts out of the gutters of the italian market by hand if it means i never have to commute to the burbs ever again.

I like mine with american, fried onions, and (sometimes) ketchup

my favorite pho place is on 6th and washington, they're a little mechanical now but I still like em

pho 75?

nah, pho ha

http://www.yelp.com/biz/pho-ha-philadelphia

174 yelpers agree -_-

Among the perils with which one will have to contend, is a woman I refer to as the dragon lady. She is very loud, and not at all friendly. Also, one of the servers let's his children run around screaming like banshees on the moors. One does also wish that one's ears weren't served horrible asian pop music as a side dish...but alas.

sigh

how dare those asians be asian in their own establishment selling asian food

god all the nights i closed the tank bar. my friend S.K. was the bartender there for years and my friend lance and i would hang out there until after closing and barely make it home at night. sheesh. oh the memories...

i've never had a local in philly. it seems weird considering it's the city i've lived in/near the most.

vietnam was my fave place to go to in chinatown. i loved that place. mmmmmm.... don't know about now. its been awhile.

I walked down south street for the first time in forever yesterday, and saw that they had closed down showcase comics! I'm not even a big comics guy. but right next door was a place called 'atomic comics.' weird!

:'(

doobie's was pretty much our local. not that we went there every night. but we knew everyone and it was always close to home. i liked the food too!

man i was walking to the train yesterday and just realized tla video had closed! sign of the times, etc. but jesus that bummed me out.

i only really miss philly when i read this thread!

i loved when 20th & sansom near my apartment had tla/comic book store/the ritz/gay disco/smoke & magazine shop/wooden shoe/wawa/diner/beer store. i never needed to go anywhere ever.

and i never did go anywhere ever.

we moved right around when i started ilxing. otherwise i totally would have hung with all these ilxors. oh well, another life.

i loved when 20th & sansom near my apartment had tla/comic book store/the ritz/gay disco/smoke & magazine shop/wooden shoe/wawa/diner/beer store. i never needed to go anywhere ever.

haha this was a golden age