The Other Critics

Two Takes on Amìs; Takoyaki Tasting for LaBan

• Adam Erace thinks “everything but the portions are in order” at Amìs.
[Philadelphia Weekly]

• Meanwhile, Trey Popp finds “blow-you-away good” food at Amìs, which “fizzes with a more freewheeling spirit, a kinetic energy that ricochets across the room from the crowded cocktail bar to a track-lit kitchen counter.” [City Paper]

•Craig LaBan takes in the octopus takoyaki at Maru Global. [Inquirer]

• Rick Nichols samples Pub & Kitchen’s first retro cookbook dinner and unearths steak Diane and Susanna Foo. [Inquirer]

• Midtown Lunch finds “high prices, inedible tacos and meat skimping” at Kensington’s Taco Riendo. [Midtown Lunch]

Two Takes on Amìs; Takoyaki Tasting for LaBan