High Street on Market
308 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
My
fiancé and I had been frequenting High Street on Market for many weeks after it
had opened. We were hooked on just about everything we tried there, and there was
still so much more to go. My future mother in law came into town for a weekend,
so we knew where we had to take her. It was our first adventure to High Street
for dinner, and we were so incredibly excited to see how it measured up to the
rest of the deliciousness we had experienced there.
The
menu is small, but its full of amazing options. It was really difficult to
choose what to eat, but eventually we made our decisions. I started off with
one of their bottled cocktails, a Rabbit Run, a scrumptious concoction
containing carrot juice and vodka. Fantastic. We split a bread plate for the
table, but once we received it, I wished we had ordered one each. The bread at
High Street is serious. There is nowhere else in the city that does bread like
this. Their pastries and breads are out of this world. The bread plate came
with cherry wheat bread, ancient grain and the anadama and some pumpkin butter
to spread on as well. It was seriously tasty. The bread is so good you don’t even
need the butter, but trust me the butter is amazing too.
They
had a special appetizer for the evening of fried razor clams served with a buttermilk
habanero aioli. It was my first venture into the realm of razor clams, and it
was a good one. The clams were fried to crispy perfection and I topped them off
with a quick squeeze of fresh lemon juice. The aioli was rich and creamy as I expected
it to be, but the habanero was definitely missing. I know the spice level is
really high so you need to be careful, but I really couldn’t taste it at all.
Other than that it was a great dish. We also ordered the mushrooms dish which
came with sunchokes, smoky eggplant,
kale and a soft cooked egg. The dish was earthy and hearty, which I really wasn’t
expecting from a mushroom and kale dish. The egg yolk coated everything and
brought all of the separate parts of the dish together as one. Again I could
have eaten another three of these as well.
For
our mains, we decided to each order our own pastas each. I had heard so many
things about the seaweed bucatini, I couldn’t resist ordering it. My fiancé ordered
the eggpland and goat cheese agnolotti and her mother the crawfish and buckwheat
orrechietti. We were all very happy with our own choices. I had the pleasure of
tasting them all, and I was really blown away. The buckwheat orrechietti had a
snap and texture to it that was just fantastic. The flavors of the crawish and
okra went surprisingly well together and brought it all together. The most
surprising of the pastas was the agnolotti stuffed with jerk spiced eggplant,
and served with caramelized goat yogurt. The yogurt was tangy and cooled off
the jerk spices really well. It wasn’t Italian pasta, and I loved that. It was
so Greek, but had so many Italian qualities about it as well. So Unique.
Finally, the seaweed bucatini was my favorite and I was so glad I ordered it.
The pasta itself was black, served with a delicious seafoody broth and it was
topped with tons of shaved lobster bottarga. Bottarga is salted and cured fish
roe. It’s a very strong flavor, but its simply delicious and only nailed the
seafood flavoring of this dish even more. It as salty and fishy, a true
testament to the ocean.
No
meal with my fiancé and her mother is complete without a little something
sweet. As good as the meal had been, we knew dessert would be just as good. The
breakfast pastries we had there prior were so out of this world, we figured the
dessert would be as well. We ordered the coffee crumb cake to share between the
three of us, and an espresso for me as well. Its worth noting the coffee here
is amazing as well. Rivals Bros provides the coffee and it is strong and delicious.
The crumb cake was the perfect end to the meal. The cake itself was moist and
the crumb topping was crunchy and sweet. The sour cream sauce underneath
actually gave the dessert a bit of a savory touch to it. It was tangy and not
so sweet, so it melded well with the coffee cake.
Four
pints for High Street on Market. This place is incredible. I have been here so
many times, each time trying new things
and I am blown away each and every time. Eli Kulp's cuisine is so inventive and
unique. The bread and pastry program here is unmatched. All of the ingredients
are fresh and local, and they are all stars in their own right. It is
good for any meal of the day. High Street has quickly become one of my
favorites in this amazing food city. I visit it more than any other restaurant
in the city. Check it out, as I am sure you will love it as much as I do! Cheers!
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