Sometimes, it seems as though you can’t have a neighborhood — a real, vibrant neighborhood — without having a Mexican place. It’s the corner bar of 2014, embodying that same convivial spirit, casual atmosphere with a dose of Latin panache.…

Neal Santos MELON GAZPACHO: Canary and lemon drop melons are buzzed into a purée with cucumber, sherry vinegar and garlic scape. The beaker of soup is poured tableside over a bowl of compressed melon beads, avocado and fried bread crumbs.…

Neal Santos SWEET AND SALTY: Tequila cocktails and smoked and fried chicharrones at Lolita. Neal Santos It was five years into the new millennium. I was a freshly minted college grad with a flip-phone in my pocket and a fifth…

Courtney Apple Of all the drinks in all the bars in all the world, few have suffered as much injustice as the margarita. What once was a simple, lip-smackingly refreshing cocktail of tequila, lime juice and orange liqueur has degenerated…

Yeah, that’s Mike Solo in a chicken suit. Talk about sweet charity. Federal Donuts and the Broad Street Ministry just launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund Rooster Soup Co., Philly’s first restaurant to direct 100% of net profits to a…

Neal Santos HEAD ON: Tempura-fried crispy soft-shell shrimp with yuzu and jalapeño. In an era when chefs can’t expand their empires fast enough, there’s something to be said for taking your time. Hiroyuki “Zama” Tanaka’s parents must have instilled in…

By all accounts, Sylva Senat was one of the city’s most exciting chefs. A Brooklyn-bred Haitian dude cooking vindaloo sausage, peanut rice-stuffed quail, black cumin sorbet and other modern Indian treasure at Tashan…. Come on, the story practically wrote itself.…

During my four years at Penn, I subsisted on MexiCali sweet potato burritos, Cosi Signature Salads (with chicken) and bowls of customized Rice Krispies at Cereality, the short-lived, pimp-my-cereal restaurant. I thought I had it good. But these kids today…

Black Seed Bagel “No one does shit for dad,” laments chef Scott Schroeder, a dad himself. This Fathers’ Day (June 15th), he’s correcting that injustice with a “very dad-friendly, masculine-y brunch” at Sardine Bar with the crew from New York’s…