Philadelphia Weekly, Digested

Meme is reviewed in this week’s Philadelphia Weekly, and Adam Erace has nothing but nice things to say. The menu is in perfect step with the season, but that doesn’t mean that it’s dull comfort food. Rather, dishes are exciting and delicious — enough so that Erace is planning ahead to his next visit. It looks like the whisperings that Meme would revive the Old City restaurant scene were not so far off.

• Also in this week’s paper, an interview with Marguerite Rodgers, the designer of Fork:Etc. — it’s interesting to get an even more behind the scenes look than servers/bartenders/chefs. Anyway, here’s a cool part about what signifies a well-designed space: “People linger. They want to be there. A pet peeve of mine is spaces in which there’s no variety of scale, where everything is the same height. Especially in cavernous adaptive reuse buildings like old warehouses or banks, people can feel lost.”

• Finally, in Sidedish, a look at a whole slew of holiday food events, including Tinto’s $25 prix fixe brunch.

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