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This Italian BYOB located slightly off the beaten path, is a great Old City dinning alternative for anyone trying to avoid the trendy, crowded, striped-shirt, meat-market, hot-spots of Market Street. If you don’t mind eating with Grandma and the kids the food will surely not disappoint, though not quite the ideal location for a special romantic occasion. The ambiance is “abbastanza” (enough) as the Italians might say, but my personal experience would surely have been enriched had I remembered to bring a bottle of wine and chosen instead to sit outside. The staff is quirky but very attentive and the outside dining tables provide enough green vista to let you forget that you’re neighboring the I-95 turn-off.

The menu is classic, fresh Italian with daily fish and pasta specials cooked to perfection. I had a bell pepper and sharp provolone antipasto with four of the tiniest, saltiest sardines imaginable. I had forgotten just how delicious half a sardine could be. Though my father and I probably should have ordered slightly differing dishes we were both happily placed in “buon appetito” mode and beyond content with our choices. I had “Penne con Frutti di Mare” with gigantic, delicious scallops in a creamy pomodoro sauce, while my father had “Penne Totto” pretty much the same dish without the seafood and a slightly creamier sauce. If you’re a seafood lover the choice is easy, if not the Penne Totto is starting to put this place on the map.

Radicchio Café
402 Wood St, Philadelphia, PA 19106
(215) 627-6850

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