Ralph’s first opened its doors in 1900. The rest, as they say, is history.
Today, Ralph’s is as popular as ever. At this classic, white-tablecloth spaghetti house, customers are treated like family. Locals call the traditional Italian red sauce “gravy” and regularly frequent the famous Ninth Street Italian Market for homemade pasta, spices, sausages and cheeses.
While chain restaurants attempt to replicate Italian comfort food, South Philadelphia's red gravy emporiums are the real deal — and Ralph’s is the granddaddy of them all. After all, they’ve been doing it for more than a century at Ralph’s.
So dig into a plate of lasagna and meatballs served family-style for a taste of the old country that isn't mass-produced.