2. Aksum
8.2
4630 Baltimore Ave, Philadelphia, PA
Middle Eastern Restaurant · Cedar Park · 27 tips and reviews
Lisette Goss: The ambiance and food was delicious and relaxing. Crispy calamari for an appetizer. Then I ordered the Lebanese Chicken : Shrimp, my daughter's father ate the Greek lamb, and we shared Oreo dessert
BeWhy Wisdom: Try the Beat Salad. The beets are sweet and the sugary walnuts contrast the goat cheese nicely.
Layla O'Showy: I heart their foul.
3. Washington Square
9.1
210 W Washington Sq (btwn Locust & Walnut St), Philadelphia, PA
Park · Washington Square West · 60 tips and reviews
Dave Mahida: Very chill. Great to come and read a book or lounge around. I sometimes just sit and think. My fav of the original squares.
NASA: For the Apollo 14 mission, astronaut Stuart Roosa carried along 400-500 seeds which stayed with him as he orbited the Moon. At this location find the sycamore Moon Tree.
Concierge: 2 sights not to be missed! Check out the "Moon tree" and the tomb of the Unknown soldier of which the eternal flame burns, a tribute to all our men and women in the "Armed forces"
4. Flying Monkey Bakery
7.9
51 N 12th St (at Reading Terminal Market), Philadelphia, PA
Bakery · Chinatown · 37 tips and reviews
GourmetLive: The very recent and enormously popluar Pumpple Cake places layers of apple and pumpkin pie between levels of chocolate and vanilla cake and coats it all with buttercream frosting.
Visit Philly: Outrageous Food TV show visited just to sample the larger-than-life Pumpple Cake, a pumpkin pie and an apple pie baked into a chocolate-and vanilla layer cake with a thick coating of buttercream.
Jax Cusack: best cupcakes!
Nihad DaBosnian: We don't serve squid, we serve octopus! Completely different animal, but we take 3 days to cook it so it's really good. It's also the leanest protein humans consume! Get the octopus or lamb chops
Visit Philly: Congratulations. "Saveur" magazine named this one of the "Top 100 Experiences in the World." You've only got 99 more to go!
Bloomingdale's: When you want something more than a plain old watering hole – how about a place set within the Greek-temple-like grounds of a 19th-century waterworks, looking out on the Schuylkill River.