- khyber pass for beer and po boys in old city
- Philly aids thrift off south street
- double knot for a swanky dinner
- book haven in Fairmount is such a charming book store and short walk to eastern state penitentiary
- clay studio gallery
- reanimator coffee ☕️
- crime and punishment in brewerytown
- moon + arrow for pretty things
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CENTER CITY EAST
Shane’s Confectionery & Franklin Fountain
An ice cream and candy shop that are a portal back in time.
Walk through Society Hill
Amble up and down the streets between S. 2nd to S.6th and Walnut and Lombard.
Redding Terminal
Where the Amish have brought their goods to be sold for over a century, but now a market of all types. Touristy but worth it.
Locust Bar
Sunday night karaoke is the best time to go. Once saw a man with a walker and an IV drip wheel himself in from Jefferson Hospital across the street and sing “My Way”.
CENTER CITY WEST
Goldies
Falafel sandwich is great but the dairy free tahini shake is game changing.
Metropolitan Bakery
Can’t go wrong with anything from here, though I’m partial to the millet muffin, the chocolate cherry bread, fennel pretzel and I HIGHLY recommend getting a lemon Pequea Yogurt.
Mutter Museum
If you’re feeling up for it and you can stomach this after all the food this is one of the greatest museums in America. It’s a medical oddities museum.
Grace Tavern
Grace has my favorite burger in town. It’s messy and the blackened green beans are great too.
Curtis Institute of Music
One of the most esteemed music schools in the nation where you can catch free performances by students and visiting musicians.
WEST PHILLY
Fischer Fine Arts Library
A Frank Furness building on UPenn’s campus and is normally open to the public.
Queen of Sheba
An old haunt of mine. Part dive bar, part Ethiopian restaurant. Great place to watch daytime TV over injera.
NORTH PHILLY
Pizza Brain
Metal head pizza shop.
Wagner Free Institute of Science
Like no place on earth. A free natural history museum that’s frozen in time. Once went to a lecture on botched taxidermy here.
PS - if you’re driving I highly suggest a stop in Lambertville, NJ just for the Boat House (bar) and the vampire room at the Antique Center.
Mar 2, 2024
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Books: Lot 49
Museums: Philadelphia Museum of Art of course, Barnes (near PMA), Mutter Museum (really unique), Institute of Contemporary Art is cool and free but small, Fabric Workshop and Museum is also free and small and the exhibit going on right now is cool
Food: Triangle Tavern, El Chingon, Han Dynasty (Old City location is in a gorgeous building), Machine Shop (in Bok, for pastries), walk around Chinatown, Pizza Plus for takeout pizza, Ember and Ash, Tabachoy, The Tasty for vegan brunch, Pietramala or Vedge for a fancy dinner if you can get a res
Mar 1, 2024
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If you’re in on a Friday night, start with Art After 5 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art— they have live music in the atrium, local food and spirits and it’s a really good time for a gallery wander in a museum with a lot of famous pieces. I would also suggest Meg Saligman’s studio— she’s a Philadelphia muralist and her studio is it’s own art installation; it’s a really brilliant space and I go whenever I’m back in the city.
Foodwise, I would go to the terminal market, but walk with your elbows out and don’t let tourists from the suburbs bowl you over— I would also check out a.restaurant, the Dandelion, or Libertine for a restaurant experience, and El Merkury’s churros, Toast cafe for soulfood, or Winkel for brunch.
The botanical garden is really lovely depending on the season you go in (if you’re going this weekend maybe not, but in April and May it’s beautiful).
Check out Harriet’s bookshop, or Brickbat or Molly’s Books & Records.
Skip the riverfront park, and honestly the city center square, but the Rodin garden and the magic garden are deserving of all hype.
Mar 22, 2024
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I’m on an instagram break plus I like you guys more so please enjoy this painting I am proud of. Referencing Bosch‘s garden of earthly delights, specifically the third “Hell” panel ❤️🔥 acrylic and gouache on raw canvas!
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Like I am sometimes haunted by thoughts and thinking too much can be low key scary
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