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SILK CITY
Spring Garden
American
Drinks
ZAHAV
237 St. James Place, Philadelphia, PA 19106
T: 215.625.8800 (make a reservation)
Zahav serves modern Israeli food and it’s one of my favorite restaurants in the city. Chef Michael Solomonov used to work with me and he’s doing amazing things. I would bring a visiting chef here to eat the hummus—it’s just awesome.
Old City
Middle Eastern
Restaurants - Philadelphia, PA
Silk City has great, interesting food, and when the weather is nice, I like to sit in the garden. The blackened fish tacos are my favorite thing on the menu.
Chef Marc Vetri - Recommendations
October 25, 2011
Vetri | Osteria | Amis - Philadelphia, PA
Photographs courtesy of Marc Vetri
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MARIO BATALI RESTAURANTS
MICHAEL WHITE RESTAURANTS
New York
Italian
Restaurants - New York, NY
I usually go to New York and always end up at either a Mario Batali’s or Michael White’s places. What should you order? I would say everything. You really can’t go wrong when you’re eating at a restaurant run by these guys.
BELGIAN CAFE
Fairmount / Art Museum District
Pub / Belgian
Drinks - Philadelphia, PA
They have a wide range of Belgian beers, which I love, and the atmosphere is really relaxed.
MONK’S
Rittenhouse Square
Pub / Belgian
They have a wide range of Belgian beers, which I love, and the atmosphere is really relaxed.
DI BRUNO BROTHERS
Bella Vista
Italian / Market
Food Purveyors - Philadelphia, PA
In Philly, I love Di Bruno Brothers, where they have a lot of great cheese. They’ve opened some new locations, but for the real old-school experience, you just gotta go to the original on South 9th Street in the Italian Market.
SAMUELS AND SON SEAFOOD
3400 S Lawrence Street, Philadelphia, PA 19148
T: 215.336.7810 / 800.580.5810
South Philadelphia
Seafood Wholesaler
Samuels and Son is bringing in this awesome baccala from a farm in Spain. It’s completely sustainable and awesome. They actually take the salt out and just send us filets of it. We’re using it in a variety of different ways including a baccala soup with a vegetable fritto misto.
EATALY
Chelsea / Flatiron
Italian Market
Food Purveyors - New york, NY
In NYC, I’m at Eataly a lot. It’s filled with great places to eat and they have awesome hard-to-find products, coffee, chocolate, breads, etc.
BUON ITALIA
Chelsea / Online
Italian Foods Market
For great olive oil online.
AMARO AVERNA
Italian
Digestif
Drinks - Aperitif / Digestif
I enjoy Amaro Averna. I really like the bitter flavors.
CAMPARI
Italian
Aperitif
I enjoy a spritz made with Campari. I really like the bitter flavors.
Who
Chef Marc Vetri is the head chef and owner of Vetri Ristorante, Osteria, and Amis in Philadelphia.
Why
Chef Marc Vetri trained in Bergamo, Italy, before opening his acclaimed first restaurant Vetri in 1998. His rustic Italian fare is made traditionally with slow-cooked meats and homemade breads and pastas.
Cookbooks
- Rustic Italian Food [buy it]
- II Viaggio Di Vetri: A Culinary Journey [buy it]
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Recommendations
Marc Vetri’s recommendations for where to eat, drink and shop in Philadelphia and New York.