{"id":4266,"date":"2025-11-20T08:39:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/?p=4266"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:50:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:50:26","slug":"philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/2025\/11\/20\/philadelphia","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While our bathroom is getting some work done, we are staying in Philly for a few weeks. Ruth is working in person at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jawntpass.com\">Jawnt<\/a>, I am seeing family and friends, and we are both eating our way through some excellent restaurants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Michelin recommendations came out this week, and we were pleased to see that many of our choices were recognized. We went to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littlefishbyob.com\">Little Fish BYOB<\/a>, where I paired our tasting menu with a nice Kirkland<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fridaysaturdaysunday.com\">Friday Saturday Sunday<\/a>, which was recognized with a star<br><a href=\"https:\/\/dancerobotphl.com\">Dance Robot<\/a>, which has a great website and katsu curry<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mawnphilly.com\">Mawn<\/a>, where we waited in line for lunch. I recommend the prawns.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/yuhirosushi.com\">Yuhiro Sushi<\/a> for excellent omakase<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pizzeriabeddia.com\">Pizzeria Beddia<\/a>, recommended by Bib Gourmand<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elchingonphilly.com\">Chingon Taqueria<\/a>, which was as good as any place I&#8217;ve been in California<br><a href=\"https:\/\/bastiafishtown.com\">Bastia<\/a>, which had excellent cocktails and Sardinian small plates<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.murphsbarfishtown.com\">Murph\u2019s Bar<\/a>, which had great local beer and excellent food<br><a href=\"https:\/\/kalayaphilly.com\">Kalaya<\/a>, which was recognized with a star<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaffabarphilly.com\">Jaffa Bar<\/a>, which had delicious cocktails and oysters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also got a hoagie from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertykitchenphl.com\">Liberty Kitchen<\/a>, handpies from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.littlesusies.com\">Little Suzie\u2019s<\/a> and bagels <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillystylebagels.com\">Philly Style<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m glad my scale is back at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_6703.heic\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_6703.heic\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4269\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Go Birds, Fuck ICE, and Free Palestine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While our bathroom is getting some work done, we are staying in Philly for a few weeks. Ruth is working in person at Jawnt, I am seeing family and friends, and we are both eating our way through some excellent restaurants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"geo":{"latitude":39.9527245,"longitude":-75.1635284,"description":"Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19107, US"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4270,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266\/revisions\/4270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}