Food

This time of year, no one really wants to cook. And as the weather heats up, no one wants heavy meals. Despite the dismal trend...

Kalaya Thai Kitchen is the new and buzzing restaurant at Ninth and Catharine streets in South Philadelphia that delivers beautifully presented, authentic Thai dishes...

“Are those herbs?” asked a friend looking at a three-tiered planter box on my deck, brimming with basil, chives, rosemary, dill, thyme, parsley and...

Bloomsday Café, a bright, spacious, inviting eatery, opened last month on 2nd Street in Society Hill. Taking the place of Café Nola, which was...

By Ethel G. Hofman Barbecuing is primal, even dangerous. It’s looked on as a guy thing—all that fire, smoke, sharp implements and mountains of meat. But...

I’m a fan of flank steak. It is crowd pleasing, relatively inexpensive (for beef) and, as I discovered last week, can cover a couple...

PJ Clarke’s, now on Washington Square, is the Philadelphia outpost of the renowned New York saloon. Legend has it that about 10 years ago, then-Gov....

I am in love with summer tomatoes — so much so that I invariably succumb to temptation too early. And then I’m disappointed when I...

There’s a case to be made that barbecue — dripping, saucy fare eaten with your hands — is the great American food, transforming us...

I always thought of radicchio as a small, red, crisp, pleasantly bitter lettuce. This notion was smashed last week at the farmers market when...