Serrano

Serrano can be found at S 2nd St 20. The following is offered: Bars & Pubs. The entry is present with us since Sep 8, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 14, 2013. In Philadelphia there are 279 other Bars & Pubs. An overview can be found here.

“International home cooking” with some “interesting twists” heads the bill at this “cozy” Old City Eclectic “fixture”, which “defines comfort” thanks to a “roaring fire in the fireplace” and staffers who “treat you like you just came home from a long absence”; if you book dinner and order tickets for a “concert upstairs” at the Tin Angel, you get reserved seating for the show.

A fixture on the Philadelphia restaurant scene since 1985, Serrano, with its upstairs acoustic café, the Tin Angel, attracts an artsy neighborhood crowd to its colorful boho setting. At the lower level, the long, narrow room boasts a time-etched wooden bar on the left and a fireplace to the right. Either crystal chandeliers or colored-glass Indian lamps hang from the ornate ceiling. The lights...

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Old City on a Saturday night might be the last place you'd expect to see a quiet acoustic show by Amos Lee, Dar Williams, or a bluegrass trio, but I swear, it happens here all the time. The second-floor Tin Angel feels more like a big coffeehouse than a cafe, and once the night's performer takes the small stage, the room hushes. Seats are general admission, so come early to score well....

Folk music always sounds best in an intimate room where you can hear everything clearly. (Unless you hate singer-songwriters, in which case it's better to face them in a bar where the music is drowned out by the clack of the pool table.) This room is deceptive: it's long, low and narrow, so it feels small and warm but has enough room to hold about 50 small tables plus a bar in the back. There...