Lemon Cheesecake

Seems we've been on a restaurant reviewing craze recently-- we're still doing plenty of cooking at home, don't worry!  Most of our meals lately have been quick and painless, as these crazy life endeavors like planning a wedding, submitting scientific papers for publication, and moving across the city have been both stressful and time consuming.  However, we still try to squeeze in social events to keep us sane in between- and these inevitably...

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The Industry

Although we've never written about it, Good Dog is one of our go-to neighborhood staples.  With their multi-level dining space, we can always seem to find a place to sit.  There is usually a game on TV, or if you're more of a player than a watcher, there's the pool/dart/arcade room upstairs.  The hipster-y vibe is pretty standard for Philly- it's a common place for us to take visiting friends.  Of course, the most important part-...

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The Cambridge

Our little world has recently expanded, with J moving out of the condo we've shared for the past four years in order to make space for my soon-to-be husband (will take me awhile to get used to that word!). Now that she's living a mile away, I sense we'll soon get a good handle on the good eating spots in her new neighborhood- which includes one of our new favorites, Hawthornes.  Of course, in weird coincidence, the folks behind Hawthornes just...

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Jamonera

At the beginning of the year, the "Midtown Village" duo of Marcie Turney and Valerie Safran revealed their latest project, a complete transformation of former Indian restaurant Bindi into a Spanish tapas spot called Jamonera.  At this point in their careers, it's inevitable that anything they open will be successful.  Craig LaBan sure thought so, awarding Jamonera (a play on the Spanish word for ham, an ingredient seen throughout the menu)...

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Breakfast Stack

For years and years, I was a cereal-for-breakfast kind of girl.  All through high school and college, a bowl of cereal was the only thing I could even imagine eating in the morning (minus the occasional restaurant or diner breakfast, of course).  After a couple years of grad school, I gradually changed my daily schedule to include a morning workout.  After a sweaty gym session, a simple bowl of carbs didn't quite do the trick.  Now,...

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El Limon

A good friend of ours recently moved to Conshohocken from Center City.  To us city-dwellers, this may as well be the middle of PA.  However, she quickly conned us into coming to visit with the promise of terrific Mexican food.  In her quest to find the best that her new locale had to offer, she discovered El Limon, right on the main drag of Fayette Street.Although Taqueria Veracruzana has been on "The List" for years, we've never made...

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Osteria

Marc Vetri's continually expanding mini-restaurant-empire has provided us a few opportunities to experience his food (even though he himself isn't doing the cooking), both at Amis (two visits) and Alla Spina.  His namesake restaurant is too far off the charts for our lowly grad student budgets (don't mind all those other tasting menus we manage to do...), and Osteria seems like the quiet little sister that lives on the outskirts of town.  Always...

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