Volvér

Serving decadent multi-course tasting menus from Iron Chef Jose Garces, Volver is a gorgeous, worldly new restaurant located in the landmark Kimmel Center.

The Philadelphia-based “Iron Chef” Jose Garces (Distrito, El Jefe, Garces Trading Company, etc.) is behind Volvér, a high-end restaurant located in the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Garces’ team creates elaborate tasting menus with either eight courses ($75-$120 per person) or a dozen courses ($175-$250 per person). A given night might bring a modern spin on sushi with Carolina gold...

They say dining is theater, and the play's the thing at Jose Garces' mod-meets-industrial American atelier at the Kimmel Center on the Avenue of the Arts. It's a big-ticket and ticketed affair with some of the most ambitious tasting menus in town ($75 and up for a pre-theater prix fixe, $175 and up for the "performance"); walk-ins are shooed over to Bar Volver next door.

Volver means ‘to return,’ and the restaurant is a ‘return’ for Chef Jose Garces, one of the country’s leading chefs and restaurateurs. An avid traveler, Chef Garces brings his more than 15 years of global culinary exploration to Volver, ‘returning’ fondly to some of his favorite meals and also reimagining them with his signature flair: exceptional ingredients, expertly prepared and served by...