For years my friend Patty has been inviting me to visit her home in Philadelphia. This past weekend a bunch of friends and I hopped on Eastern Bus on the Lower East Side of New York City. A 7pm bus got us there in time for our 9 o'clock dinner reservation. We sampled 20 or so tapas style dishes for a delicious meal at Chifa, one of four restaurants owned by Garces Brothers. The next morning after a brisk walk by the Delaware River all of us started cooking and then sat down to a three hour brunch including scrambled eggs with truffles and gruyere, mimosas, fresh-picked strawberries from a local farm and a few side dishes.
