Italian Restaurants

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While chain restaurants attempt to replicate Italian comfort food, South Philadelphia’s red gravy emporiums are the real deal — after all, they’ve been doing it for more than a century.

Dig into a plate of lasagna and meatballs at iconic Italian restaurants like Ralph’s, Villa di Roma and Dante and Luigi’s for a taste of the old country that isn’t mass-produced.

And at the intimate and very upscale Vetri, you can experience the daily changing menu of rustic Northern Italian delicacies that has critics calling it one of the best Italian restaurants in the country.

Featured Attraction

Vetri

One of the nation’s most acclaimed Italian restaurants

Washington Square West / Center City East

Star chef Marc Vetri’s titular restaurant is considered one of America’s finest Italian restaurants. If you find yourself at a table here, consider yourself very lucky.

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