May 06, 2016
In case you missed it, Bon Appétit came to Philly, and all writer Adam Rapoport did is walk and eat. Mostly eat. It’s an impressive tour-de-fork — through South Philly, Center City, Kensington, more — that reads like an ultramarathon version of Louis CK’s “bang bang” adventure:
Led around by a couple Philadelphians in the know — his pal Amiel (a 12 Steps Down veteran) and Tony Montagnaro (co-founder of W/N W/N Coffee Bar) — Rapoport hits Hungry Pigeon, 12 Steps Down, Tortilleria San Roman, Café Diem, Ba Le Bakery and Ray’s Happy Birthday Bar — and that’s just the first part of the first day.
I ogled the spirals of herb-flecked sausage and racks of aged rib eyes below the cursive neon at Cappuccio’s Meats. I felt like a dopey tourist at Cannuli’s House of Pork, nervously admiring the white-jacketed butcher with the red silk tie and Steven Seagal ponytail. And we stopped in at Tortilleria San Roman, a tiny slip of a tortilla factory, where I bought a bag of freshly fried chips that we didn’t need, but man, were they tasty.
If you like to read about/look at photos of food, you should probably head to Bon Appétit and read the piece.
