Django Review

Django
526 S Fourth St.
Philadelphia, PA 19147
(215) 922-7151

Craig LaBan reviews Django:

For a city that discovered its first modern culinary urgings in a '70s funky-storefront restaurant renaissance - nearby, in fact, largely around South Street - what could be more quintessentially Philadelphian?

This is an intensely personal food-lover's paradise where the seasonally inspired menu and seamless service are, dollar for dollar, unmatched in the city. Among the most expensive dishes, an extraordinary loin of venison topped with a scoop of foie gras glazed with date syrup is an astonishingly low $24. Try that in Manhattan.

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To think I could have missed Sikora's farmstand-corn bisque, a bowl of sunshine-colored broth swirled with spicy Old Bay butter and topped with two crisp fried Ipswich clams. It's like summer on a spoon. Roasted corn kernels make another cameo on the goat cheese gnocchi, this time with golden chanterelles and slivers of summer truffle.

Seafood also rules the evening. Nuggets of tender oil-poached lobster are tossed with homemade bowtie pasta in an exotic curried cream with salty pistachios. Crisp fillets of tilefish pose over white Tarbais beans moistened with a fish broth punctuated with olives and caramelized fennel.

I wonder if they still serve the bread that comes baked in a flower pot?

Comments

[Mrs. Hamster]

Make reservations or prepare to wait. Also, it is BYOB.
Enjoy!