A quick trip to Philly

I had to run to Philadelphia today on business. It took all day. Well, it took half the morning and half the afternoon, which left me with a nice hole in the middle of the day to go exploring Old City.

I mentioned on my travel blog once that you won't starve in Paris, because of all the restaurants. You won't starve in Philly, either. Seems like a third of the storefronts are eating establishments or taverns.

I walked by several cheesesteak places and picked a place called FarmiCiA. I have no idea why the goofy capitalization. They've been there the better part of a decade in a nicely cleaned up old industrial building. To my motorcycling friends: Young, attractive, friendly, competent staff. The food was great. I got to sit inside the window you see in the picture. I had an exotic goat cheese appetizer and a huge grass-fed beef cheeseburger with a slab of Amish cheddar on it and plenty of trimmings, plus liquid refreshment, and escaped for less than twenty bucks. The place filled up nicely at noon with what looked a lot like regulars, always a good sign. The background music was unobtrusive, which I like. Nice place to take your wife for lunch or dinner.

Also to my biker friends: I didn't check out the bar, but they have one that looks comfortable. They have a smallish beverage menu, with several microbrews and only one "common" beer, if I remember. However, a few doors down is a place (Called Rascals, I think) that advertised it had more types of beer on tap than any other place in Philly, and ridiculously low prices. They weren't open.

So anyway, I visited a few places while I killed the midday. A little more about that on the travel blog on Saturday, July 31.