Twenty Manning Grill Restaurant Review:
Located just off Rittenhouse Square, this upmarket restaurant pairs gastropub comfort fare with unexpected dishes such as Asian-style beef over rice noodles with lemon grass, basil and mint. Be sure to start your meal with a selection from the raw bar, perhaps day boat scallop ceviche, or try the pork pot stickers or spicy calamari. You can't go wrong with the steak frites, a burger or the...
The menu of “gorgeous, easy” fare is “always interesting” at Audrey Claire Taichman’s Rittenhouse New American, which attracts a “lively” “blend of neighborhood regulars and new faces” with its “solid” cooking and “stellar” service; it’s set in a double brownstone with a “stylish” look, and while the mood is usually “relaxed”, some gripe that it can get so loud “you can’t hear yourself think.”
The second venture from local girl made good Audrey Claire Taichman was a hit from the moment it opened in 2000. Large French windows open up onto the sidewalk where tables are always packed in the warmer months with chic young couples and klatches sipping pomegranate martinis and supping on Pan-Asian small plates like black tea house-smoked tuna and grilled prawns with roasted yams. Inside,...
This polished, lively bar and grill is a fitting refueling spot for the surrounding polished, lively neighborhood. On the menu, burgers (beef, tuna, portabello) served on wooden planks, classic shrimp cocktail, flatbread pizza, and roast chicken mingle with more international comfort fare: pork potstickers, scallop seviche, heirloom tomato gazpacho, moules frites. Especially notable: The...