

HARPER’S GARDEN: Center City eatery Harper’s Garden features a stunning, all-weather outdoor dining patio and trellis that’s blooming with plants and flowers. 1623 Sansom Street, 21 Warm up over dinner and cocktails in the cool greenhouses at Harper’s Garden. On especially chilly evenings, the staff’s been known to bring out soup-on the house. Next, choose your appetizer (strong recommendation for the latke fries with herb sour cream and applesauce), main and dessert, or go for the Montreal smoked short ribs, which you can order for the whole table.

OUTDOOR DINING NEAR RITTENHOUSE SQUARE Locals enjoy a meal at Abe Fisher’s streatery in Rittenhouse Photo by Colby KingstonĪBE FISHER: Inside Abe Fisher’s heated streatery, you’ll start with warm, challah parker house rolls and herby cheese spread. Northern Liberties, Fishtown and Kensington.We’ve separated this guide to outdoor dining in Philly into neighborhoods, so feel free to zoom ahead to find restaurants in and near: (And masks, of course.) Happy outdoor dining! Just be sure to check the websites before you go-most spots these days are requiring reservations. Some offer breathtaking views of the Delaware River, while others are nestled in spots that let you forget, if only for a moment, that you’re in the middle of a gritty city still semi-locked in quarantine.

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That said, there’s “outdoor dining” and then there’s “eating on a sidewalk.” The latter has its place-aren’t we all just grateful to be out to dinner?-but for this guide, we scoped out restaurants offering fresh-air dining destinations that are tucked away on patios and in gardens, places that are removed from the world just enough that you might have your meal surrounded by foliage and fountains and strands of twinkling lights rather than sidewalk gawkers and whizzing traffic. In fact, thanks to the ingenuity of our restaurateurs, dining out(side) is one of the best things to do in Philadelphia right now-if you’re safe. And why wouldn’t you? Lots of restaurants in Philadelphia have adapted to make al-fresco dining happen, even as the weather cools. With the danger of new variants like Omicron, however, many still prefer to keep it outside. Now that restrictions on indoor dining have relaxed a bit, some Philly diners are happy to head back inside for their meals (just don’t forget that vax card!.
