HELP! I have to take an eGulletier to dinner....

[Sartain]

Where should we go in Philly? New, great food, the bolder/more inventive the better....

She has her finger on the pulse. But, I'd rather have cherrios.

HELP!

Thanks!

[wkl]

snackbar! (there's a thread around somewhere)

[Alec Hart]

Osteria

or

Snackbar

or

Amada

[philadining]

Yep, what they said, maybe put Ansill in the mix too.

Given your requirements, I'd go to snackbar, they have everything from bold/inventive to comforting. Not sure they actually have Cheerios, but...

[Alec Hart]

And Modo Mio

[Sartain]

Thank you all, these are great. She wanted to go to M - but they closed the restaurant....

[Sartain]

Sartain here.

Thanks to all who gave suggestions to my SO. She happened to use my login on the couple of days that I didn't check egullet.

We had a great dinner at Snackbar tonight. I was caught without my camera. She had the heirloom tomatoes with garlic dressing, and the chicken breast with brown butter mashed potatoes. I had the octopus and the pork belly. The pork belly was more fatty than I've had it there before, but still, crispy skin and fragrant porkiness - who could ask for more on a birthday?

We finished the meal by sharing the whipped chocolate pudding with mango puree and coffee, the tres leches cake and the ginger creme brulee. The cake and the creme brulee were tremendous. IMHO the whipped chocolate pudding a bit off-balance: somehow I wanted more tartness and sweetness of the mango to contrast with the deep chocolate (in flavor; in texture the pudding was more panna cotta than pudding) and the tannic dark roast coffee.

Again, thanks for helping her out. EG comes through for me (vicariously) again!