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DatePittsburgh, PA 15232
(412) 683-2333
Crepes Parisiennes
Categories:
French,
Creperies,
Breakfast & Brunch
Neighborhood: Shadyside
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 351-0202
Cube Cafe
Categories:
Coffee & Tea,
Chinese
Neighborhood: Chinatown
Sidenote (mostly not serious): it rubs me the wrong way that another reviewer writes without any qualification that the restaurant is Korean owned and the egg waffles are Korean. cuz, you know, it touches that nerve in me that gets irritated when people just wrongly assume about Asian ethnicities. Those folks are speaking Cantonese and clearly serve Hong Kong classics that people who are not from Hong Kong would never think to offer. I love Korean food and Korean people but don't try to steal glory of the egg waffles from Hong Kong ok???
Philadelphia, PA 19103
(215) 790-1799
Tavern 17
Categories:
Bars,
American (New)
Neighborhood: Rittenhouse Square
I probably wouldn't come out of my way to eat here, but it was convenient, so, it worked. I think it's probably a 2.5 food place but since our service was good I think rounding it up to 3 is fair. Show owner comment »
Philadelphia, PA 19102
(215) 567-7683
Oyster House
Category:
Seafood
Neighborhoods: Rittenhouse Square, Penn Center
This is one place I absolutely want to come back to in order to pay full price for a rare treat. I think I should suggest it for my parents when they come for my graduation. :)
Philadelphia, PA 19103
(215) 564-5540
Day By Day
Categories:
Caterers,
Breakfast & Brunch,
American (New)
Neighborhoods: Rittenhouse Square, Penn Center
I still NEED to try their baked goods!
Come early because otherwise you'll be standing in line forever. We got there at 10am on the dot and the restaurant filled up immediately.
Philadelphia, PA 19103
(215) 568-3271
Famous 4th Street Delicatessen
Categories:
Delis,
Sandwiches
Neighborhoods: Rittenhouse Square, Penn Center
True, if you eat here more than once a month, the blood in your arteries will be replaced by cholesterol instead.
True, the syrup they provide with their breakfast items is chiefly a combination of corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup, This is definitely more of a BYOMS place, bring your own maple syrup.
True, if you walk in here thinking that you're just going to have a sandwich for dinner, your eyeballs will bulge once you look at the prices on the menu.
But!!! If any restaurant were modeled on heaven, this would surely be the place. Your meal actually starts with a small selection of complimentary pickles and delicious bread, before the waiter brings your sandwich out. These are top-notch deli sandwiches with enormous portions served in a spotless, mostly-white restaurant that shines by attentive and friendly staff.
The portions really are ENORMOUS - enough to make two or three hearty meals. But after your eyeballs are done bulging at the size of these things, the meats are moist, savory, and flavorful. The service is super friendly and attentive. And they give you chocolate chip cookies with the check.
Bottom line: Go for the full fat corned beef if you're getting corned beef. Come hungry.
Washington, DC 20008
(202) 362-2408
Modern Times Coffeehouse
Category:
Coffee & Tea
Neighborhood: Chevy Chase
2 Previous Reviews:
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7/12/2011
NO NO NOOOOOOOOOO !
For reasons beyond their control, they are no longer able to carry the croissants.
Oh well, it's still a 4 star kind of place to hang out. Sometimes I eat dinner there when I haven't gone grocery shopping. Nom. -
6/8/2011
Pretty much all of the coffee shops I like have an atmosphere like Modern Times - laid back, with a mixture of people studying/working hard and people who feel free to talk anyway.
But Modern Times has a special distinction -- CROISSANTS! ZOMG they are so good. I only ever got off my lazy butt to come check out the place because my professor, who taught me in Philly but is resident in DC, basically had a foodgasm every time she brought up Politics and Prose and the croissants that Modern Times serves. Well -- what can I say -- after my first croissant here, I had a foodgasm too. IT TASTES LIKE A WHOLE STICK OF BUTTER IT IS SO GOOD. I think they're fresh-baked every day, and while it wasn't served to me still-warm as I had hoped, the outsides are all flaky, but the insides melt in your foodgasming mouth because of the butter. FUCK YEAH! But after my first taste of the plain croissant, I ran into my professor at Modern Times who suggested trying the chocolate one. It was even better! Even though the chocolate doesn't taste much like chocolate (I go for the extra-bitter stuff) but the mouthfeel is amazing -- it injects an additional layer of sugary melty-chocolate sensation into the soft, full-stick of butter feel. Holy crap it is so good.
They could use upholstered furniture. But I guess my ass is squishy enough from the chocolate croissants that I don't really need extra cushioning.
Philadelphia, PA 19103
(215) 772-1701
The Prime Rib
Category:
Steakhouses
Neighborhood: Rittenhouse Square
So yeah, A-OK, but probably not my first choice for steak. Oh well, at least I made my mother in law happy by texting her to let her know that her steak is better than a fancy steakhouse.
Washington, DC 20009
(202) 487-4615
MiG Bar
Category:
Dive Bars
Neighborhood: Adams Morgan
Bring your own friends though, or risk spending your last night in DC getting mired in a conversation with an attractive white (i.e. privileged) woman who is against gay marriage but yet cannot conceive of a world in which gay people are maltreated [who also has smooth enough social skills to insinuate that you aren't attractive, gee thanks]. That may or may not be an incentive, I guess.
...let's just say that was the perfect capstone to a place I'm more than happy to leave. At least it was entertaining.
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I used to come here EVERY single weekend my freshman year of college. I'm several years out of college but come back here fondly whenever I visit Pittsburgh. It's been almost ten years since I started going to this restaurant, and amazingly, the prices have only risen by a quarter (as in, 25 cents, not 25 percent) or so since I was a wee college freshman. Inexpensive with wonderful service - I only wish they had a place like this in Philadelphia!