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Eating Out

Haverford Township is a great place to eat out. There are dozens and dozens of restaurants and just about every cuisine either in town or quite close by. I am no food critic, and not qualified to judge not having highly developed taste but many of these restaurants are quite highly rated. It is one of the benefits of living in an inner ring suburb that it is so easy to eat out or to order in. One of my favorite strips has a Pizza/Hoagie place (run by Greeks), a Chinese take out, and a Japanese Restaurant (run by Koreans). Is America a great place or what?

All that said sometimes you want to adventure further a field. Our friends Joe and Rosemary happened on an Italian Restaurant, Varallo Cucina, in South Philadelphia.

We first ate there a couple of weeks ago and made a return visit last night. There is a wonderful bakery attached to the restaurant. Last time it was closed when we left so I made sure to visit it first this time and get a treat for today. The restaurant is a small place but for most of the night we had it all to ourselves. A small menu but specials offered in pasta, chicken, veal and fish. A very pleasant evening – I had a spinach/egg soup, an eggplant appetizer (I love eggplant) that everyone shared (thank goodness), and a chicken breast stuffed with cheeses and prosciutto. My cholesteral must be thru the roof.

To be with friends easy and relaxed that is the best kind of meal.

When we left , a group of men all speaking Italian were gathered in front of the bakery. As we traveled through the narrow streets of row homes with impossible parking, someone said nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live here. Indeed. But it is so nice to know it’s there to be sampled and enjoyed.