Neal Santos CATCH UP: Striped bass and cockles at Society Hill Society. Long before there was a chef at Society Hill Society, there was a menu. If that sounds kind of backwards, that’s because it is. “It looked a lot…

Lynette Gueits Sutton is a busy woman. She’s got two Delicias food trucks feeding arepas to HUP, Penn, Drexel and worker bees around Love Park, a five-month-old brick-and-mortar spin-off of the same name and no time to return this stalkerish…

Neal Santos COAST TO COAST: East coast squid stuffed with Arborio rice and Calabrese salami. The slick Rittenhouse restaurant, A.Kitchen, which local restaurateur David Fields opened with the AKA Hotel in 2011, could fill a library with all its stories:…

Neal Santos AL FORNO: Petruce’s lasagna is layered with béchamel and pecorino then finished in a wood-fired oven. Sweet potatoes, I like them fine — whether roasted crispy, baked with butter and cinnamon or even turned into gnocchi. But it’s…

If you belong to the Bala Golf Club, Lombard Swim Club, Merchantville Country Club and any of the region’s other elite zoos, 1) Can I get a guest pass? and 2) You might be familiar with Michael Lynch. The chef…

Mark Stehle STALKER: At The Gaslight, broccoli salad is studded with dates, almonds and crisp shallots. Third Eye Blind slid through the speakers, and at the white subway-tiled bar, Cran-Apple cosmos flowed like Acqua di Gio on Prom Night ’97.…

As drinkers, we romanticize the past — a time when the world seemed populated by beautiful ingénues and dashing criminals and a cut-crystal decanter of whiskey was always in arms reach. A time when people knew how to drink. And…

Neal Santos LOOKIN’ SNAPPY: A whole red snapper dressed with olives, capers and cilantro. When Adan Trinidad took over the kitchen at Jose Pistola’s, Casey Parker remembers, Trinidad “had people clean for the first four days.” Parker, who owns the…

This morning, Food & Wine editor-in-chief, Dana Cowin, announced the winners for the magazine’s Best New Chef and Fork/High Street/A.Kitchen ace, Eli Kulp, took home the victory. “I’m very excited and honored to be apart of this list,” Kulp says. “It’s always…