Dining, Restaurants and Food in Philadelphia
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Restaurant and Bar Inclusion
It would be nearly impossible and very impractical for gophila.com to feature every restaurant and bar in the Greater Philadelphia region on this website. There are simply too many of them. Nor is there a need for such a comprehensive catalog.
Gophila.com, instead, focuses on giving our online visitors a taste of the Philadelphia restaurant and dining scene. Our goal is to include enough information to effectively convey why the vibrancy, diversity and excellence of the region’s dining scene is renowned across the country and to give visitors a starting point from which they can set out to explore Philadelphia’s vast culinary prowess on their own.
To this end, the editors of gophila.com have tried to capture the essence of Philadelphia dining with a sampling of some of the most visitor-friendly restaurants in the region. These include many of the most distinguished, most well known and most distinctly Philadelphian restaurants, cafes, bars and eateries in Philadelphia and The Countryside.
To gauge an establishment’s visitor-friendliness, several factors were weighed, which include but are not limited to: location (Rouge’s location, on Rittenhouse Square within a five minute walk of numerous hotels, is a visitor-friendly location); atmosphere; quality of cuisine; quality of experience (evaluates potential dining experiences, taking into account many variables like service, value, etc.); and uniqueness (you can go to a Cheesecake Factory anywhere in America — the only place you can find Pat’s King of Steaks, Django or Le Bec Fin is in Philadelphia).
This last criterion is very heavily weighed; we want to make sure visitors know that they should make a point to experience authentic Philly flavor during their time here. So, for example, if you're looking to get a few sandwiches for lunch, we encourage you to skip Subway and proceed directly to Sarcone’s, Shank’s and Evelyn’s, Chickie’s, Primo’s or Salumeria for authentic Philadelphia hoagies.
And while gophila.com strives to be as inclusive as possible in its restaurant and dining section, we simply can not profile every restaurant and bar in the region, no matter how visitor-friendly they might be. We have to reserve the right to include and exclude establishments according to our editorial guidelines and resources.
However, if you have a suggestion for a restaurant or bar for us to feature, please suggest it to our editors, and we’ll be sure to check it out.