"Philly's best restaurant is also one of it's most surprising. The Society Hill spot serves a $225 tasting menu that shows off 25-ish pristine, often whimsical French-Korean dishes. This is food in HD—you can taste every element of the lineup, which includes velvety uni with buttercup squash, ruby red bluefin tuna topped with foie gras and black truffle, and duck confit and unforgettable fresh corn polenta with pops of trout roe mixed in. It's definitely one to save for your most special, special occasion, but dinner will never be stiff or be boring. Provenance gets loud and lively thanks to Motown music, an open kitchen, and couples polishing off their wine pairings with fermented satsuma plums." - candis mclean, alison kessler