Food and Things

Pumpkin, another Philadelphia BYOB, is a cozy spot, situated on South Street.
But instead of the chatty chef we got at Pif, we were delivered a chatty waitress. Really, I’m getting very tired of the declaration– before I’ve even looked at the menu–that the ingredients are local, organic, pure as the driven snow. Enough already! Just [...]

“The snail is to tell people this is French food, no more no less,” chef David Ansill of Pif, an inventive Phillie BYOB, told us.
OK, we like the snail too. The sign that hangs in front of this small unassuming-looking South Phillie eatery was made by the same guy who constructed the Buddah at Buddakan, [...]