The Ultimate (Chef's De Pleasure) Guide to Dinning Out in the Philadelphia Area

In this Ultimate Guide to dinning out the Philadelphia way; (The Chef de` Pleasure) edition. I will take you on an eclectically patch worked journey, through the streets, byways, boroughs, and suburbs of Philadelphia; and reveal the hidden treasures that are on and off the beaten paths of this historical city of "Brotherly Love." In this chef's choice edition of the ultimate guide, I will not be getting exhaustive in the way of reviewing a vast selection of eateries, café's, bistro's, etc. There are enough restaurants in this city to feed a moderately sized country. But instead I will give an informative and personnel guided tour of a select group of fine and unique eating establishments; so it should go without saying, there need not be any type of star rating system in this guided review.

We will start off our guided tour in downtown, Center City, Philadelphia. Within this cities regional area, where you can find almost any kind of cuisine to suite the desires of the most particular and or peculiar of palates, a helping hand can save you time effort and money; so why not take a moment and follow along. Let us head west, over to The Ritten House Park district, a historic landmark area with as much income per-capita as Belle-Air, California; but within a significantly smaller amount of square footage. This public city block area contains everything from, classic euro-coffee houses, artisan bakeries, five star hotels, an exquisite bed & breakfast, and one of my favorites; open front sidewalk café's. This leads us to our first stop on the tour.

Spring mill cafe

Credit: Michèle R. Haines

Copyright: Michèle R. Haines