Valentines in Philly

On Valentines day, 2/14/2010, I decided to take Jaclyn for a nice meal and dessert in Philly. She loves the historical parts of Philly and while these two places are more or less replicas we thoroughly enjoyed our time there.

We first went to City Tavern, which is a colonial themed restaurant from top to bottom. It’s located on 2nd street a few blocks from Market in Old City Philadelphia. The decor was straight out of the colonial time period as is pretty much everything else. The only thing not out of that time period were the prices. I’d strongly recommend going for lunch as the portions were perfect and prices close to half that of dinner. Overall, we enjoyed it and will probably go back.

After dinner and a brisk walk we visited the Franklin Fountain, a turn of the century themed soda fountain/ice cream parlor. Again, everything in this place, down to the mirror in the bathroom, went along with the 1920s theme. It was really pretty cool, not to mention the ice cream is homemade and the sundae we had was awesome! I think we finally found a contender to the “Brownie Obsession” at TGI Fridays. I’m sure we’ll be back here many times as pretty much everything on the menu sounds good. Just a quick word of advice; unless your eating it as your meal, split the sundae.

That was Valentines Day 2010. We’re not usually big on holidays like Valentines Day, but it was a good excuse to head downtown. It was the first time since moving back that we got to spend some time in the city. We’re looking forward to living down there!

Thanks for stopping by, check out the Franklin Fountain and City Tavern and let us know what you think.

Alex