Manoa Shopping Center in Havertown has always been a destination for the finest in mediocre dining including Manoa Diner & Deli (it’s neither), Applebee’s, Shogun 3 (sushi rolls are half price at lunch), some Chinese place called Szechuan Lei Lei in the back (guess it wasn’t good enough to be in the front), Manhattan Bagel […]

Today’s adventure brought my buddy Mark Zacckey from Sunoco to this wonderful diner in Malvern on Lancaster Avenue (Route 30). (Don’t confuse this with the Frazer Diner down the road… eat there at your own risk!) Calling this a diner is like calling a steakhouse a hamburger joint. The food here is excellent, the portions […]

Today’s lunch brought the gang to the New Orleans Café, now located on Chichester Road in Boothwyn, just minutes off of I-95. I’ve followed them from Eddystone (where the food was fantastic) to Media (where the food and service was awful) to their current location. I’m happy to say that they’ve comeback to their original […]

From my buddy, Joe Fruhman, now in NYC at Sloan-Kettering working his marketing magic after years at the Rothman Institute in Philly. Joe is one of the few guys I know who would venture anywhere for a good lunch… When a place has a sandwich called The Monster that claims to be NYC’s largest sandwich, […]

Barb and I were coming back from a press check at Anro, when we decided to have lunch. Never one to pass on an opportunity to try new places, we heard about some new Vietnamese place in the Marketplace Shopping Center on West Chester Pike and Route 352 in Westtown (West Chester for anyone using […]

If you’re looking for a healthy dose of Southern home cooking, and don’t mind a drive to Atlantic City, loosen your belt and head down the shore to Kelsie and Kim’s. We did our annual trek (it takes a year to work off the calories) and started off with the fried catfish appetizer and an […]