Philadelphia bars and restaurants continue to get kudos from national publications.

First it was The Grey Lodge and Southwark being named by Esquire as two of Best Bars in America.

Vetri and Striped Bass cracked Gourmet’s top 50 restaurants. Gayle’s veal stew was named one of the nation’s top ten restaurant dishes of the year by Food & Wine.

Then the Standard Tap and Grace Tavern were featured in Bon Appetit’s January issue on “new American pub food.”

Now McGillin’s Olde Ale House and the Walnut Room have been named in Nightclub & Bar magazine’s top 100 Nightclubs and Bars in the U.S.

Top 100 Nightclubs and Bars for 2007 [Nightclub & Bar Magazine]
McGillin’s Olde Ale House [Official Site]
Walnut Room [Official Site]

A club may start its life white hot, but it rarely lasts more than a season before all that is left is “Jersey people.” A.D. Amorosi takes a look inside Philadelphia’s club scene for the Inquirer.

Among the hot, at least until this Inky article made all the places mentioned so last week, the Gayborhood may just be the hottest area of the city with Pompeii, Sal’s on 12th, Key West, Pure and Applause!Applause!. Outside the Gayborhood the Walnut Room shines at 18th and Walnut, Bob & Barbara’s on South at 15th is hot again, as is Medusa, downstairs at 21st and Chestnut and Fluid, 4th Street, south of South, is somehow always hot.

But as always these clubs are playing for a fickle audience, “easy to please, impossible to ultimately satisfy.”

Keeping Their Cool [Philadelphia Inquirer]