"BlackHen in Old City is a soul food restaurant and BYOB, so you'll be sharing both a bottle of wine and sides of red velvet cornbread and mac and cheese. There's aways R&B playing, which helps to set a laidback mood and provides a good excuse to show off your dance moves. Go for the fried chicken—it's some of the best in town—and find the same comfort in a mound of pillowy yams that you do when they tell you that they also love the Eagles." - candis mclean, alison kessler