Upping Edible Ante At SPTR
Posted by Foobooz on July 31st, 2008
In Elisa Ludwig’s last review as a City Paper restaurant critic she visits the South Philadelphia Taproom where she finds a food menu that’s trying to match the beer selection.
SPTR builds on the classic model: a casually delivered combination of basic sandwiches, fried items and relatively exotic animal parts, with an emphasis on the latter. Everything — from the boar bacon to the veggie burger — is made in-house. Props to Zulli for this approach, making food a bigger priority. But in the end, execution counts more than ambition, and SPTR might want to consider paring down the kooky stuff for simpler, more consistent fare.
SPTing Image [City Paper]
1509 Mifflin St, Philadelphia, PA
Related Tags: gastropub, Reviewed, South-Philadelphia, South-Philly-Tap-Room
August 5th, 2008 at 11:40 am
yeah, like how about having an appetizer that i can snack on that costs less than $8? i don’t need anything fancy. just fries, or maybe chips and salsa? i have a friend that got their $11 burger last time we went there and they tried to charge $3 extra to add fries. seriously? i mean, the burger’s already overpriced and not particularly great. good beer though.