Craig LaBan
Restaurant Critic and Drink Columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer
The hungriest, thirstiest, crumb-trackin' man in Philly. Restaurant critic & Drink columnist for The Inquirer. Sign up for my new Taste Philly newsletter!
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3 days ago |
inquirer.com | Craig LaBan
It’s easy to get sticker shock dining out at the Jersey Shore: When you see entrees cresting $60 — and I saw many — the wise-cracks about it being cheaper to vacation in Europe no longer seem like a joke.
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3 weeks ago |
inquirer.com | Craig LaBan |Jenn Ladd |Michael Klein |Matt Buchanan
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1 month ago |
inquirer.com | Craig LaBan
At 8:30 on a Wednesday night, the palm-fringed upstairs dining room of Maison Lotus had nearly cleared out. Despite being the hottest new reservation in Wayne, this multilevel French-Vietnamese destination had already synced to the early-to-bed rhythms of Main Line dining in its first two months. So it was no mystery, with closing time fast approaching, why the staff seemed rushed as they brought us a fleet of oversized plates all at once, no matter whether our crowded table could hold them.
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1 month ago |
inquirer.com | Kiki Aranita |Craig LaBan
The arrival of the Michelin Guide is a momentous occasion for Philly’s dining scene — one that, even if you don‘t care about Michelin‘s vaunted star ratings, may very well change the way you eat in the city’s best restaurants as they strive for one of the restaurant world’s most heralded achievements and a new kind of diner potentially stalks the reservation books.
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1 month ago |
inquirer.com | Craig LaBan
Chloé Grigri and Vincent Stipo don’t have commitment issues when it comes to most things. The two have been inseparable since they began dating in 2014 after Stipo, then the beverage wizard at Vernick, fell for Grigri’s Provençale-American charm during a visit to the Good King Tavern, the French bistro in Queen Village she’d opened the prior year with her father, Bernard. They got married on a South Philly deck during COVID and now have a 2-year-old daughter named Margot.
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