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NOW OPEN: Grill Fish Cafe
Right on sked, Benny Lai soft-opened Grill Fish Café (814 S. 47th St.), a cozy seafood-focused offshoot of his massive West Philly restaurant Vietnam Café (816 S. 47th St.) over the weekend.
NOW OPEN: Grill Fish Cafe
Right on sked, Benny Lai soft-opened Grill Fish Café (814 S. 47th St.), a cozy seafood-focused offshoot of his massive West Philly restaurant Vietnam Café (816 S. 47th St.) over the weekend. Lai took a trip down the Vietnamese coast to research the menu for the 20-ish seater late last year; the result is a tight menu that restaurant-izes Viet seafood staples at good prices. The kitchen, for example, uses sake in lieu of down-home chicken broth for their steamed clams and mussels; they take a Mediterranean step, too, by using olive oil in some dishes, which Lai observes has only come into favor in native kitchens in the last decade or so.
Nightly specials will expand as the kitchen gets more comfortable; for now, look for a regularly changing grilled whole fish option (branzino, bass, pompano, etc.). Opening menu and opening wine/beer/cocktail list after the jump (click to enlarge).
- barstool scientist
- Booze
- Brew Revue
- Chef Salad
- Closings
- Coffee
- Contests
- Dealage
- Dirty Dishes
- Don't Front
- Eat This Immediately
- Field Trip
- Food and Art
- Food and Holidays
- Food and Movies
- Food and Music
- Food and Politics
- Food and Sports
- Food and Web
- Food Blogs
- Food Books
- Food Events
- Food News
- Food TV
- Gifted
- Happy Hour Hopper
- How-To
- In Print
- Interview
- Meal Ticket
- Menu Time
- Not So Quickfire
- Notes from the Weekend
- On Wheels
- Openings
- Patio Drinking
- Philly Beer Week 2010
- Photos
- Private Chef POV
- Product Placement
- Recipes
- Snack Time
- Stiff Drank
- SUPPER
- Tea
- Testing
- Ticket Stubs
- Top Chef
- Vegan
- Vegetarian
- Video
- Weekly Candy
- Weird Regional Foods
- We're Here to Help
- Where'd We Eat?
- Drew Lazor's Ill-Advised Rant Factory
- Pregame
- Ill-Advised Ranting
- The Week Without Meat
- Philly Beer Week 2009
- Real Big
- Where'd I Eat Last Night?
- Top Chef Masters
- The Good Word
- Next Iron Chef
- Arterial Terrorism
- Food and Radio
