Their pizza is amazing and authentic and it’s a great place for kids to dine. When we walked out, it started to snow and really, nothing is prettier than walking through a metropolitan city in the snow.Īppetites got strong and we jumped in a cab to have the best pizza I’ve ever had in the U.S… Pizzeria Vetri. We lucked out because it happened to be Ben’s birthday and they had a slew of fun activities for kids planned. The ice cream is incredible, the staff is accommodating and the vintage décor takes you back to an amazing era– a must for anyone going to Philadelphia with kids or without. Yes, even in winter.Īfter a quick National Park Service guided tour of Independence Hall on Sunday morning, we hit the Benjamin Franklin Museum. We stood in line…outside…in the middle of January …for a good thirty minutes, but it was SO worth it. A few blocks down from the Continental resides the infamous Franklin Fountain. Naturally this meant we took them to get ice cream. I felt a little guilty about enjoying my martinis so much that we decided to indulge the kids a bit. The kids were happy, mom and dad enjoyed a nice meal and some excellent martinis, and all was well with the world. Yes, we took our kids to a martini bar BUT, the best part was that they totally accommodated our littles! The minute they took us to our table, they brought over a huge heap of shoestring fries! Sure enough, we found the Continental Restaurant and Martini Bar. That coupled with the complimentary hot chocolate bar in the mornings and hot toddy bar in the evenings, rocked our universe.Īfter a day of driving, eating cheese steaks and swerving through cold tourists at the Italian market, my husband and I needed a stiff drink….after our hot toddies of course! My husband vaguely remembered a place on Market Street that made excellent martinis, so a Googling we went. We stayed at the Hotel Monaco in downtown Philadelphia, and we couldn’t have asked for a better place to call home. When the staff saw my kids were traveling with us, they put us in a gorgeous room overlooking Independence Hall and the horse-drawn carriages. I bought enough cheese, pasta and tomato sauce to last me five years. Walking into their main store and their mozzarella depot is like walking into a little salumeria in Rome. By far, we spent the most amount of time at Claudio’s. Both stores let our kids sample, sniff and stroll which made it much easier for us to shop. Two of the biggest gems we uncovered were Cardenas Oil & Vinegar Taproom and Grassia’s Italian Market Spice Company. I convinced the gang we needed to wander around the Italian market and I’m so glad we did. Maybe it was because we ate outside and it was windy and thirty degrees but it just didn’t do it for me. I updated my Facebook status to read…”Pat’s or Geno’s?…where should the Ochoas go?” which immediately opened the flood gates to a massive cheese steak duel the likes social media has rarely seen! My husband insisted on hitting the cheesesteaks and we were up for the challenge.
Our Philadelphia food tour kicked off around lunch time and we decided to check out the South Philly on our way to our hotel.
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