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Best Restaurants In Philadelphia

In Case You Missed It: The 50 Best Restaurants In Philadelphia

Posted by Jason Sheehan on December 31st, 2012

Last week was a big week ’round Foobooz World HQ. All the holiday kerfuffle aside, it was also the week that we posted the Philadelphia magazine list of the 50 Best Restaurants in Philadelphia for 2012, and the response to said list was…overwhelming.

But the 50 Best Restaurants package wasn’t the only thing that got posted over the holiday week. There was a whole bunch of other 50-Best-related stuff that also hit the internets while you might’ve been looking in another direction. So here, for the convenience of our less-than-fanatical readers, is the full accounting of last week’s 50 Best Restaurants action, all in one convenient place.

Cheers, and have a happy New Year.

50 Best Restaurants In Philadelphia for 2012 This is the big list, and a good place to get started. For those looking for a little more information, the issue (with write-ups and explanations for every restaurant on the list) is on the stands right now–though we’ve been hearing that it has been selling out everywhere, so be quick.

Please Ignore This List–Our Insatiable Obsession With The Philadelphia Restaurant Scene A counter-punch to our big list, coming from one of the people who helped put it together.

Philly’s 51st Best Restaurant In a city with so many great restaurants, here’s what it means to be the 51st-best in town.

Methodology: How The 50 Best Restaurants List Came To Be It took us months to come up with the 50 best restaurants in Philly. Here’s how we spent our time.

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Methodology: How The 50 Best Restaurants List Came To Be

Posted by Jason Sheehan on December 28th, 2012

See that little dancing picture up there? That’s how the list of Philadelphia’s 50 Best Restaurants came to be. That’s one wall of Foobooz World HQ, covered completely with 170-odd Post-It Notes, representing every single restaurant that was in contention for a spot in the 2012 rankings. That’s what we lived with for roughly three months–a constantly shifting and evolving representation of Philadelphia’s restaurant scene to be stared at, debated, argued over, torn down, rebuilt and obsessed over until me and Art and the rest of this year’s 50 Best Restaurants crew had gone all A Beautiful Mind and saw the thing in our sleep.

How did Stateside end up at #1? Why didn’t Fette Sau or Rittenhouse Tavern make the list at all? And what were we thinking with Marigold Kitchen? There are answers to all of those questions, and it all began back in August with a deceptively complicated question:

What are your favorite restaurants in Philadelphia?

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