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The Food Department

Philly's 20 hottest restaurants

Essential dining in the area right now, based on buzz.

Philly’s 20 hottest restaurants

POSTED: Wednesday, March 27, 2013, 12:03 PM

Whether you need a date destination for Saturday night, a pick for fussy out-of-towners, or a quick stop in Center City, Philly.com/food has you covered with 20 essential restaurants of the moment. (They're in alphabetical order.)

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Comments (50)

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:09 PM, 03/27/2013

This is fine of you have a few hundred bucks to blow on glorified digestibles. Once is slides past the taste buds it is a complete waste.

— Joyce Lesby.

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:24 PM, 03/27/2013

Aaaaand...another off-topic post just to complain about something. Why doesn't that surprise me?

— Tatt2

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:11 PM, 03/27/2013

The food is crappy in Fishtown. Cheesesteaks and pizza is about all you are going to get. Plenty of booze though.

— jbetty01

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:38 PM, 03/27/2013

Not in most people's budgets to blow a month's worth of grocery money on one sit-down meal. If it is, then you are one of the lucky few. LOL

— Tyrone Biggums Jr.

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:50 PM, 03/27/2013

The doughnuts at Federal are really just OK - plain, old fashioned deep fried doughnuts topped with "exotic" syrupy stuff. On the other hand, the fried chicken is to die for - lightly coated and fried, crisp and simply delicious. Don't bother with the powdered finishes - get it "naked".

If you want really good doughnuts, try the Donut Plant in NYC.

— chuckie621

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:28 AM, 03/28/2013

thanks for the tip. i'll jump in my car and drive 2 hours up to nyc to get one.

— Zero

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:07 PM, 03/29/2013

You must be in love with me. I am not felling you like that though.

— MS. LOU.

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:08 PM, 03/27/2013

When did Ft. Washington and Berwyn become part of Philly? Philadelphians don't venture out to the suburbs for dinner if they don't have to.

— lkmiroslaw

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:43 PM, 03/27/2013

As I read in the Daily Digest just the other day, for thousands of years man had perfect teeth, which is confirmed by remains. What changed? Man learned to farm instead of eating healhful dead meat, and the teeth started going away, as has our heath, we are not birds, we do not need an abundance of vegetables, just fatty meat, no to little carbs, and little processed stuff. Have a nice night.

— LJM

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:43 PM, 03/27/2013

— LJM

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:43 PM, 03/27/2013

— LJM

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:01 PM, 03/27/2013

yuck !!!!

— topaj

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:04 PM, 03/28/2013

Good Food at affordable prices in even at this so called "high end places" Get on their mailing lists,use Open Table,take advantage of Restaurant Week,City Sips,cooking demos at hotels,Cook and the Book, and my favorite happy hour!For those that wanna fight about food remember,"What you eat don't make me fat!" Three pages of back and forth insults to people you don't know, can't see, or don't care about is a waste of space.

— vrb1955

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:29 PM, 03/28/2013

Try..."Seasons 52"...reasonable prices and portions, Cherry Hill, Iron Hill Brrewery, Maple Shade, or Brio's, Promande in Marlton,...........Outstanding food at all three, easy parking at no cost to you....They will bring you back time and time again and you wont have to face the city parking and traffic or the "in" crowd uppity type....All are reasonable...

— nuggett

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:37 AM, 03/30/2013

Philly's 20 hottest restaurants should be just that - Philly only! City limits! Berwyn and Collingswood? Seems like you're throwing a (little) bone to your suburban readers.

— Doc Rob