Inside Almost Home, the New Brunch Café in Old City | Eater Philly

"Opening next Thursday, April 11th, Almost Home will host its grand opening in Old City at 205 Race Street, though it's already operating a soft launch that has impressed neighboring diners. The 3,000-square-foot café seats 60 and serves breakfast, lunch and all-day brunch with a focus on comfort food made from local ingredients; owner Robert Doran of New Jersey and Glu Hospitality aim to cultivate a “home away from home” where the welcoming front-of-house team learns customers' names and orders, offers suggestions, and keeps the space family-friendly with high chairs and a cozy, Instagram-friendly aesthetic — high ceilings, free wifi, spacious dining areas and a grand colorful bookshelf. Signature dishes include tempura fried scrapple with olive oil poached egg, truffle fondue and crispy potato sticks on a hoagie roll, triple flash fried chicken thigh with Umami sauce, and hot honey butter on a seeded milk roll. The eclectic coffee bar balances serious sourcing with boundary-testing drinks, offering Philly specials (salted caramel latte, rose lemon espresso tonic), matcha options (matcha latte, purple haze, rose bud matcha), Almost Famous signatures (Bee’s knees, shaken expresso, cereal latte), smoked drinks (smoked maple latte, s’mores latte), plus coffee mocktails, lemonade, pour over and tea. Regular service runs daily from 7 am to 3 pm with the lunch/brunch menu available all day; they plan to expand hours, add dinner options and outdoor seating when the weather improves, and their phone is (267) 807-2392 with additional details on their website." - Ernest Owens