absolutely fabulous dinner here! The staff is super friendly and very competent, the food is fabulous, the ambiance is buzzy and fun. The portions are very generous, and the food is fabulous!
Aneta
We had a delightful brunch at Spice Finch: mezze, flatbread, olives, haloumi salad, spinach kichi, steak kebab, and roasted cauliflower. The service was great and the food delicious, with roasted cauliflower the star of the show. Will definitely come again and bring friends.
Alex
from the host to the servers and bus people, we had a wonderful time celebrating a birthday. Everyone was cheerful, helpful and professional. And the food was delicious!
Sal
Very cool place. The atomosphere is amazing too. I was expecting a better meal. While we didn't have an issue with the food, the price that we paid for the food, I was expecting something a lot better. Maybe it was my meal? Also, the service was really slow.
Sachin Upadhya
The ambience in the restaurant is very nice. The food option for vegetarians was limited. The service was not great since they had missed to note that we were waiting for a long time to be seated.
Had a window seat, delicious dinner of shared plates, pleasant and professional server...couldn't ask for more!
Jason Zimmerman
Had a great time grabbing dinner! There was so much food, we could have taken a box home :) Particularly the mezzes are delicious!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Peri-Peri Shrimp, Small Plates, Lamb Ribs
Rob Guzbradiv
As a 7-member group, it was disappointing that there’s no table seating until after 4 pm on Saturday. The hostess recommended we go somewhere else? There was table seating available, and people were being served food before 4 pm.
JohnR
This restaurant ticks all the boxes of Mediterranean cuisine with inquisitive pairings standard dishes and fantastic service with great intervals of each course. Would highly recommend.
Mercedes Rodriguez
Great food, the steak dish, and semolina dessert were delicious. The weird wall paper not so great.
High quality food but not as tasty as I expected. Maybe you will like it
Wheelchair accessibility: No
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Trio of Dips, Lamb Ribs
T. Barmann
Kid-friendliness: No.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
CONTEXTERRIOR
Great modern place to not only listen to music but enjoy music. Well it's always packed every time I've seen it and I hope that that's due that everyone loves the food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Broccoli Tabbouleh, Lamb Ribs
Diane Lindsay
Excellent friendly service and some truly remarkable food. Highly recommend.
Andrew Kanouse
I've had a lot of great experiences with Middle Eastern food in Philadelphia. This was not one of them.
We went with the tasting menu, which was reasonably priced. Another benefit was that I probably would have regretted the meal more if I had to pay individually for the majority of the dishes we received. One big gripe I had, though, is that there is no menu for the tasting menu and really at no point until the main dish did I know if more food was coming or what food was coming.
First came the dips: garlic yogurt, red pepper hummus, and melitzanosalata. I wasn't familiar with the latter but it was the best of a fairly mediocre three. Came with one flatbread but wish there had been more instead of the strangely hard spiced chips they came with (which felt like/tasted like chicharrones).
At this point, an absolute mound of tabbouleh joined the table. I continue to wonder why someone felt so much tabbouleh would ever be necessary. The twist of a broccoli tabbouleh I felt like didn't really work, as the broccoli just made the whole thing quite bitter.
Blistered peppers was a nice dish. The sauce was a good mix of tahina and harissa.
Chickpea wedges were fine. A bit overly mushy inside and crumbled easier than expected once dipped.
The baked cheese really added nothing to the meal by the time it came out. Not sure that the combination of baked cheese and tomatoes was a smart choice. Also, serving this in the baking pan in which it was made felt a bit off when the remainder of the dishware had matched so well.
Peri-peri shrimp: probably the best dish of the night. Plump shrimp, decent sauce.
Lamb shank: We chose this over the bass option. We subbed the crispy rice for the couscous. The rice was fine but at least what I was expecting from it. The lamb was supremely unflavorful, as were the vegetables with which it was served. The latter were also not as cooked/soft as I would have wanted or expected.
Two desserts: the brownie with the ice cream and halva was good-nothing standout but at least done well. The date truffles bordered on inedibly sweet.
The place itself was pretty empty for a Saturday night. Our waitress was super attentive. This was in contrast to the waitstaff that brought the dishes over and essentially whispered what each thing was with no explanation.
absolutely fabulous dinner here! The staff is super friendly and very competent, the food is fabulous, the ambiance is buzzy and fun. The portions are very generous, and the food is fabulous!
We had a delightful brunch at Spice Finch: mezze, flatbread, olives, haloumi salad, spinach kichi, steak kebab, and roasted cauliflower. The service was great and the food delicious, with roasted cauliflower the star of the show. Will definitely come again and bring friends.
from the host to the servers and bus people, we had a wonderful time celebrating a birthday. Everyone was cheerful, helpful and professional. And the food was delicious!
Very cool place. The atomosphere is amazing too. I was expecting a better meal. While we didn't have an issue with the food, the price that we paid for the food, I was expecting something a lot better. Maybe it was my meal? Also, the service was really slow.
The ambience in the restaurant is very nice. The food option for vegetarians was limited. The service was not great since they had missed to note that we were waiting for a long time to be seated.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Roasted Cauliflower, Warm Tahini Brownie, Small Plates, Chickpea Wedges
Had a window seat, delicious dinner of shared plates, pleasant and professional server...couldn't ask for more!
Had a great time grabbing dinner! There was so much food, we could have taken a box home :) Particularly the mezzes are delicious!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Peri-Peri Shrimp, Small Plates, Lamb Ribs
As a 7-member group, it was disappointing that there’s no table seating until after 4 pm on Saturday. The hostess recommended we go somewhere else? There was table seating available, and people were being served food before 4 pm.
This restaurant ticks all the boxes of Mediterranean cuisine with inquisitive pairings standard dishes and fantastic service with great intervals of each course. Would highly recommend.
Great food, the steak dish, and semolina dessert were delicious. The weird wall paper not so great.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
High quality food but not as tasty as I expected. Maybe you will like it
Wheelchair accessibility: No
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Trio of Dips, Lamb Ribs
Kid-friendliness: No.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Great modern place to not only listen to music but enjoy music. Well it's always packed every time I've seen it and I hope that that's due that everyone loves the food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Broccoli Tabbouleh, Lamb Ribs
Excellent friendly service and some truly remarkable food. Highly recommend.
I've had a lot of great experiences with Middle Eastern food in Philadelphia. This was not one of them.
We went with the tasting menu, which was reasonably priced. Another benefit was that I probably would have regretted the meal more if I had to pay individually for the majority of the dishes we received. One big gripe I had, though, is that there is no menu for the tasting menu and really at no point until the main dish did I know if more food was coming or what food was coming.
First came the dips: garlic yogurt, red pepper hummus, and melitzanosalata. I wasn't familiar with the latter but it was the best of a fairly mediocre three. Came with one flatbread but wish there had been more instead of the strangely hard spiced chips they came with (which felt like/tasted like chicharrones).
At this point, an absolute mound of tabbouleh joined the table. I continue to wonder why someone felt so much tabbouleh would ever be necessary. The twist of a broccoli tabbouleh I felt like didn't really work, as the broccoli just made the whole thing quite bitter.
Blistered peppers was a nice dish. The sauce was a good mix of tahina and harissa.
Chickpea wedges were fine. A bit overly mushy inside and crumbled easier than expected once dipped.
The baked cheese really added nothing to the meal by the time it came out. Not sure that the combination of baked cheese and tomatoes was a smart choice. Also, serving this in the baking pan in which it was made felt a bit off when the remainder of the dishware had matched so well.
Peri-peri shrimp: probably the best dish of the night. Plump shrimp, decent sauce.
Lamb shank: We chose this over the bass option. We subbed the crispy rice for the couscous. The rice was fine but at least what I was expecting from it. The lamb was supremely unflavorful, as were the vegetables with which it was served. The latter were also not as cooked/soft as I would have wanted or expected.
Two desserts: the brownie with the ice cream and halva was good-nothing standout but at least done well. The date truffles bordered on inedibly sweet.
The place itself was pretty empty for a Saturday night. Our waitress was super attentive. This was in contrast to the waitstaff that brought the dishes over and essentially whispered what each thing was with no explanation.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Peri-Peri Shrimp
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