Gil L. wrote: > > Ellis C. wrote: > -> I'll be in Philly a number of times over the next > -> few months, and I'd be interested in recommendations > -> for good restaurants either Downtown or along the > -> Main Line. I'd like to keep the tab for food, tax, > -> and tip under $25 a person. > > It's been several years since I've been to Philly, and I'm sure the > price may be a bit higher than $25 a person (depending on what you eat) > but one of the most famous restaurants in the world is The Bookbinder. > It is the only restaurant outside of the Cape Cod Room at the Drake > Hotel in Chicago where you can get Bookbinder soup (turtle soup) and the ^^^^^^^^^^^ More specifically, snapper soup. > Cape Cod Room uses the Bookbinder receipe. I enjoyed this restaurant > tremendously. It reeks with ambiance and dates back to Colonial days. Yes... The only problem is the restaurant I'm sure you went to is *not* owned by the Bookbinder family and hasn't been for several years. This restaurant is called, Old Original Bookbinder's. There is another restaurant in the downtown area(Center City) which is still owned by the Bookbinders. It's called Bookbinder's Seafood House and is better, foodwise, than the one most folks end up going to when they come to Phila. Karen Byrd, VAX Sys. Manager University of Pennsylvania Medical School Computer Facility Philadelphia, PA 19104 (USA) Internet: [email removed]
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