Item: Travel Planning on Review Stream
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by philberg
Review: My wife Lynn and I are avid travelers. We’ve visited cities and villages, mountains and lakes, deserts and rain forests on every continent but Australia, and we hope one day to journey there as well.
Early in our adventures we learned that a […]

Item: Philadelphia’s Embassy Suites Airport Hotel
Location: 9000 Bartram Avenue, Philadelphia PA
by philberg
Review: The Embassy Suites Hotel is just a mile from Philadelphia’s International Airport, and my wife Lynn and I like to stay there on short business or holiday visits to the city. The hotel offers a free shuttle van that runs […]

Item: Philadelphia’s Cadence Restaurant
Location: 300 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA
by philberg
Review: The Cadence restaurant is located on the second floor of the downtown Kimmel Center, home of Philadelphia’s great symphony orchestra and host to scores of other musical programs, from “Classic Rock” to Christmastime organ recitals. My wife and I have attended many […]

Item: A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells
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by philberg
Review: The later 19th-early 20th century American novelist William Dean Howells was broadly popular in his longago day. Howells produced more than 100 volumes of fiction, travel writing, poetry, and literary journalism; but as the author sadly recognized toward the end of his long career, […]

Item: Philadelphia’s Warsaw Cafe
Location: 306 S. 16th Street, Philadelphia, PA
by philberg
Review: Thirty-plus years ago, my wife Lynn and I lived and worked for ten months in Warsaw, the capital city of then-communist Poland. Poland and all of Cold War Eastern Europe were dominated by the Soviet Union; and the Warsaw regime, like its watchful […]

Item: Thai Food at Philadelphia’s Pattaya Restaurant
Location: 4006 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
by philberg
Review: Three winters ago my wife Lynn and I traveled from Philadelphia to the Kingdom of Thailand. We delighted in the Kingdom’s warm January temperatures, her ornately gilded palaces and temples, and her unique, spicy cuisine.
Thailand’s winter climate and her exotic architecture […]

Item: Philadelphia’s Mamma Mia Pizzeria
Location: 1508 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA
by philberg
Review: It seems that restaurants, like people, can grow old and tired. That happened two years ago to one of Center City Philadelphia’s seasoned standbys, the Academy Pizza shop at the corner of Hicks and Spruce Streets. My wife and I lived less […]

Item: Philadelphia’s Erawan Restaurant
Location: 123 South 23rd Street, Philadelphia, PA
by philberg
Review: Philadelphia is home to a number of Thai restaurants, and several of them serve meals that rival the best that my wife and I have enjoyed around the world in Thailand itself. Unfortunately, those superior establishments don’t offer home delivery, a convenience […]

Item: Philadelphia’s Square on Square Restaurant
Location: 1905 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
by philberg
Review: Chinese restaurants abound in Philadelphia–I stopped counting after the first hundred listed in the telephone directory and on-line–and they offer far more than the usual Cantonese fare. Szechuan, Shanghai, Hunan, Hakka, and still other regional Chinese cuisines are represented, and represented surpassingly […]

Item: Phoebe’s Barbecued Ribs Spice Philadelphia
Location: 2214 South Street, Philadelphia PA
by philberg
Review: When my wife and I moved from the Deep South north to Philadelphia three years ago, we anticipated sacrificing not only all-year warmth but some good regional food that she as a Southerner had cherished all her life and I as a […]

Item: Positano Coast Restaurant
Location: 212 Walnut Street, 2nd floor, Philadelphia, PA 19106
by philberg
Review: Philadelphia’s Positano Coast Restaurant is named for a charming hillside town on the Amalfi Coast of Italy–a region that blends a picturesque appeal to modern tourism with the ancient–and still practiced–ways of fishing in the sparkling Mediterrenean Sea. My wife and […]