Tweed Review

Executive Director of PhillyGayCalendar

If you’ve walked on 12th Street in the gayborhood in the past few months, you probably noticed a new restaurant has recently opened its doors! Tweed Restaurant opened late last year at 114 S 12th Street, the third restaurant in this location in at least that many years. After a list of failed restaurants in the same location, it bears asking, “Is this location cursed?”

Tweed, a farm-to-table restaurant, proudly boasts a new menu every few weeks based on the availability of locally grown ingredients, from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The menu is segmented into salads, pastas, and entrées. Salads average $10 – $12, pastas, $13 – $17, and entrées hover in the mid to upper $20’s.

In an attempt to keep the calorie count and the check total from exceeding established daily budgets, the focus of dinner was on salad and pasta selections. While the salads had the fresh flavor one would anticipate from locally grown produce, the Rigatoni with meatballs in marinara sauce was a big dud! Apparently, there are no local sources of basil, oregano, garlic or onions because this marinara sauce was desperately begging for a little pizzazz! The flat red sauce could’ve been brought to life with the simplest ingredient – SALT. Somewhere, there’s hairy-lipped, Italian grandmother rolling over in her grave! The meatballs were bad too! When the burnt exterior was cracked it revealed a mealy, tasteless center. Boo, hiss! This was a huge let down, because meatballs, can be simple to prepare and can have astonishing flavor.

The restaurant does serve cucumber infused water and a scrumptious crasian, pumpkin puree bread, the sad truth is, bread and water can truly only be featured menu items – IN PRISON.

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