August 25th, 2013
Winnie’s, Restaurant, Bar, Breakfast, Lunch, Brunch, Dinner, Manayunk, Philadelphia, PA, Good Gotta Eat Food!!
Manayunk is a neighborhood of Philadelphia. With its small town charm, boutiques, specialty shops, and plenty of restaurants, it sorts of reminds me of a town with similar attitude in Florida…Delray Beach. Minus the palm trees, though.
Manayunk has the Towpath, which is accessible from Fairmount Park to the east and from the Schuylkill River Trail to the west. Lots of joggers, cycling, and walkers on this tranquil and beautiful path.
Overlooking Main Street, sitting above it, the town is hilly, is Pretzel Park. I could not find out why it has that named but it has been mentioned that it could be because of the pretzel shape of the sidewalks or because for many years a pretzel vendor was selling Philly pretzels.
A dog park, benches, playground and on Saturdays the Farmers’ Market makes Pretzel Park its home.
During the day the streets are quiet in Manayunk but come happy hour there is a different scene. Most restaurants have dining al fresco. On week-ends tables at sidewalks are filled with patrons ready to taste great food for every discriminating palate.
Our choice was Winnie’s, located at 4266 Main St. Tel. 215-487-2663. Website? http://www.lebusmanayunk.com. It opens for breakfast, lunch, brunch (Saturday and Sunday), and dinner.
Taking center stage at Winni’es is its bar. Then, dining on both sides of the restaurants and outdoors, as well.
Healthy comfort food..their baked goods are so delicious. Don’t push that bread basket away. Their corn bread is very good. They also sell it at the restaurant.
So, this is what we had:
Soups are made daily at Winnie’s and on that particular day their sweet potato corn chowder was full of flavor and very tasty.
An order of sweet potato fries accompanied with a dipping sauce of sour cream, horseradish, and I believe honey. It had some sweetness to it. We ordered the fries without salt. I love fries that are crispy and these ones were perfect.
The Crisp Pear Salad – Mixed greens tossed in citrus vinaigrette with bosc pears, crumbled blue cheese, roasted peppers ad spiced walnuts. This salad was topped with their Colorado Chicken, which is the best. It is grilled with ancho chili.
A Healthy Brown Rice Nut Salad had brown rice, broccoli, carrots, peppers, onions, sunflower seeds, almonds, raisins and walnuts, tossed in tahini dressing and served with feta cheese, hummus, roasted peppers, calamata olives and pita. Topped also with the Colorado Chicken, it made a heck of a lunch!!
The Veggie Burger – Whole grains, vegetable spices and herbs, grilled and topped with guacamole and salsa on a wheat bun with those delicious sweet potato fries. Very good!!
The traditional Caesar Salad was also ordered and again, the Colorado Chicken was ordered to accompanied the salad.
No dessert was necessary….I think we ate enough!!
On the run? Want something to go? In a corner of the restaurant there is take out. And, freshly baked breads.
There is a lot on the schedule for Manayunk:
The StrEAT Food Festival kicks off on September 21st from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. Main Street will be lined up with some of Philadelphia’s best food trucks with specialties from ice cream to Asian delicacies. Plenty of options at affordable prices.
The restaurant week will be ongoing until October 5th. 22 restaurants are participating with special 3 course menus offered at $10, $20, and $30 price ranges.
More info? Please visit http://www.manayunk.com/signature-events/streat-food-festival-restaurant-week/fall-streat-food-festival.
Have a great day!! This pooch was enjoying one beautiful day in Manayunk!!
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