October 28, 2015
Travel site Lonely Planet released its annual roundup of top travel destinations yesterday. This year, the site has included guides to the world's Top 10 Cities, Top 10 Countries, Most Accessible Destinations, Best Value Destinations and even Best Moustache Destinations in its online excerpts from its annual print collection.
Despite Philadelphia topping many national tourism lists over the past year, only a few local attractions were included in Lonely Planet's online lists, and PYT was one of them.
That's right, the burger joint known for spiked milkshakes, dedicating sandwiches to Drake and earning lousy tips from LeSean McCoy, is representing the area's culinary experiences. It accompanies bites like Moroccan camel burgers and the Japanese burger noir on the Best Burger Experiences list for 2016.
We can take solace in the fact, however, that it was lumped together under the "Supersize me, USA & UK" category of the list:
"It’s an alarming ride, tracing the uglier side of the slider’s evolutionary path. Take the horrifically calorific Doh! Nut Burger from PYT in Philadelphia (beef patty, cheese and chocolate-covered bacon served on a glazed donut bun) or the thoroughly bad taste and inadvisable Las Vegas’ Heart Attack Grill, where diners don hospital gowns before tucking into behemoth Octuple-Bypass Burgers with lard-fried chips and buttermilk shales, served by waitstaff dressed as nurses. If you’re over 350lbs (159kg), keep eating for free! Perhaps the silliest slider ever, though, was a one-off burger created by London restaurant Honky Tonk. The Glamburger, decorated with gold leaf, lobster and caviar, had a price tag of £1100."
Of course, visitors to the area will be sorely disappointed if they come looking for PYT - it closed its location at the Piazza earlier this month. It won't reopen until May when it will move to a Fishtown location right across from the Fillmore Philadelphia.
Tom Brown Jr.'s Tracking School, a survival skills and adventure course in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, made the Best Places To Test Your Survival Skills list.
