US2011 - Pepper’s Cafe

Pepper’s Cafe is a tiny restaurant that specializes in fresh homemade food prepared before one’s eyes (about an arm’s length away).

 

 

With only six seats inside the restaurant, it is the smallest restaurant that I have ever been to.

 

 

Offering a variety of sandwiches, salads and pastas, it has become my favourite dinner take out place.

 

 

Among the four pasta dishes that I have tasted from their menu, their signature dish, the Penne with Chicken and Tomatoes in Pink Sauce is something that I would strongly recommend to everyone.

 

 

The other dishes that I have tried included the Penne Ariabiatta, a penne pasta dish with tomatoes and garlic in spicy red sauce …

 

 

… Ravioli, with mushrooms in tomato sauce …

 

 

… and Rigatoni, with chicken and mushrooms in basil cheese sauce.

 

 

As every order also comes with a hunk of freshly baked bread, Pepper’s is one of the best place to get a delicious meal for less than $10!!

 

 

Pepper’s Cafe
2528, Haverford Road, Ardmore, PA 19003.
+1 610 896 0476
http://www.pepperscafe.net

US2011 - Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Designed by French urban planner Jacques Greber in 1917, the Benjamin Franklin Parkway is Philadelphia’s version of the Champs-Elysees.

 

 

Starting from the Philadelphia City Hall, the mile long Parkway ends at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

 

 

Unlike Paris’ version where luxury boutiques, cinemas and cafe’s line the avenue, this scenic boulevard consists mainly of parks, sculptures, fountains and a whole host of museums:

 

 

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Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul

 

 

 

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

 

 

 

Logan Square 

 

 

 

The Franklin Institute Science Museum

 

 

 

Free Library of Philadelphia

 

 

 

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Memorial

 

 

 

Rodin Museum

 

 

 

Washington Monument

 

 

Thus, the Parkway is today, the spine of Philadelphia's Museum District.

US2011 - Elfreth’s Alley

Elfreth's Alley, popularly known as "the nation’s oldest residential street", allows visitor to step back into America’s past through its historic cobblestones.

 

 

Located in the heart of Old City Philadelphia, this National Historic Landmark Alley is a block-long street that opened in 1702 with thirty-two buildings built between the 1720s and 1830s.

 

 

While a modern city has sprung up around it, the Alley preserves three centuries of evolution through its old-fashioned flower boxes, shutters, Flemish bond brickwork and other architectural details.

 

 

Also in the Alley is the Elfreth’s Alley Museum, which tells several unique stories about early Philadelphia.

 

 

Built in 1755, it is tiny by modern standards, but were considered average size in their hey day. By average, it meant eight families (roughly 27 people) sharing the home, a situation not uncommon back then.

 

 

Of the thirty-two houses, the Museum that occupies 2 houses is the only one opened to the public. The other thirty houses remain private homes where Philadelphia families have lived in the same space for the past 300 years.

 

 

But hopefully, only one family occupies each house, and not eight like they use to be!!