Philadelphia

I heard about the White Dog Cafe in Philly over ten years ago from Pete Lamport's brother and finally went in early 2003 with Chance. It's really a bar in front and a restaurant in back in an old house in the university district, not a cafe/sandwich shop as I was expecting. It's filled with students and reasonably interesting looking people. We both got sandwiches. (I was surprised that there wasn't a philly cheese steak on the menu.) The food was pretty good, but I had envisioned better. It was pricey for what i'd expected, so it was way pricey for what I got.

Recipe for a White Dog Cafe Philly Cheesesteak Sandwich.

I was told to check out the Standard Tap Bar in Philly the next time I'm there. It's supposed to be a pretty good bar with good food.

No one told me until after I got back, but appearantly, everyone knows that South Street is the hippest spot in Philly.

Pittsburgh

John Brode told me that the Metropol is supposed to be the coolest place in Pittsburgh to see music.
Metropol
1600 Smallman St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
(412) 323-1919

Primani Brother's (several in penn and one in ft lauderdale) is a place Brandon was really into. He said that they developed huge meals in sandwich form for the steel workers that only had a half an hour for lunch, and that it eventually became a big thing.

Philadelphia's Mütter Museum is a pathology museum built on the collection of a Victorian pathologist. The Mütter's collection is devoted to preserved remains of human oddities. There is also a coffee table book about the museum calld Mutter Museum: Of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia available at amazon.com.

Bike shops list and maps for mountain biking in Pennsylvania