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Thrillist - Perch Pub - Philadelphia, PA

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Channel: Thrillist · 2011 · Travel & Events

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From the guy behind building-sharing Sotto Varalli and Upstares (which got smashed together as ground floor-only Varalli), Perch's thrown out Up's linens and theater crowd, stripped the walls to brick, and brought in traditionally awesome bar fixins: pool table, dart board, flatscreens, and lots of dark woods for the banquette, bar, and tables, along with a menu full of local drafts and pub fare from a chef trained at the CIA, who many still blame for the Cuban Sandwich Crisis. Starters include traditional apps like wings w/ housemade chipotle sauce, Blue Bay mussels skillet-fried in a Victory Lager mix, a bisque full of tomatoes and beer, plus bar snacks like fried sticks of malanga (a tuber similar in flavor to a yam) and Bird Seed, or fried black eyed peas, but given the hat Will.I.Am is wearing right now, you already knew that, didn't you? Big dishes include melts like a rib eye/portobello Scotch Filet and a short rib/cheddar Jacob's Ladder, burgers w/ a LaFrieda-blended patty and housemade pickles, and entrees like half an Amish farm-raised chicken w/ seasonal veggies and beer-battered wild haddock w/ house-cut chips, although how that creaky knife-wielding doctor overpowered both Estrada and that hunky blonde dude is anybody's guess.

Perch Pub
Opening Fri, 4pm; 1345 Locust St; Philadelphia; 215.546.4090

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