"Looking around Fabrika, the new restaurant and entertainment venue in Fishtown, it’s obvious this place used to be a factory. Impossibly high ceilings, concrete floors, metal beams, metal staircases, artwork made out of metal gears, and other elements of industrial-chic decor mix with rainbow-colored velvet couches and gleaming chandeliers. Add in the burlesque dancers, singers, saxophone players, and jugglers performing on a circular stage and you have an over-the-top destination unlike anything else in Philly right now. It opens Tuesday, February 4, in a former ice cream machine factory at 1108 Frankford Avenue, next to Barcade and near the Fillmore." - Rachel Vigoda