No matter how you like your coffee beans roasted, brewed or served in the Philadelphia area, you’re likely to discover an establishment on the list below to go back to time and again. If your New Year’s Resolution was “Drink more coffee, baby!”, consider this Coffee Guide to Philadelphia a gift from ThisWeekInPhilly.com to you. [...]

Don’t take this personally but if you don’t like desserts, there’s a good chance you’re weird. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But if you do like desserts, Philadelphia is a great place to be. Today we’re going to hop around a bit and give you some ideas about where you might go to [...]

When the topic turns to mixed drinks, you might as well begin with the martini. Listed as one of the six basic drinks in David Embury’s classic The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks , the martini is a cocktail made with gin and dry white vermouth or sweet red vermouth. These days you can substitute [...]

Some time in the 1990’s it became okay to smoke cigars in the United States. More than okay, it became a trend and, though they had always been around, Americans fell in love with the cigar bar once again. In case you’re wondering, a classic cigar bar is an establishment that caters to those who [...]

Sushi. It ain’t just for crazy health nuts any more either. Now get back here! I mean it. Don’t you dare click away just because you think I’m going to force feed you a bunch of raw fish. Here’s a little secret. Outside of Japan, the word sushi is sometimes construed to mean the raw [...]

Though commonly credited to the Japanese, karaoke was initially used when Neanderthal cave-dweller, Og, first employed the atonal falsetto screech commonly displayed by modern by practitioners of this art. Og was holding a stick like microphone when he pointed at his buddy, Noz, over by the campfire and began singing. Noz thought it was the [...]

It took a while for the concept of wine bars to catch on here in the good old U.S. of A. Practically ignored in the 1980’s, they began to gain popularity through the 1990’s. By the early part of this century, wine bars were becoming very popular in metropolitan neighborhoods. In some places, they’re giving coffee [...]

Here is what you always wanted to know about ice cream but were too bored to ask. Wait a sec – that doesn’t make sense. If you’re too bored, why would you think of asking? I don’t know. I’ve written myself into a logical black hole and here I am not even out of the [...]