Friday Saturday Sunday
New American restaurant · Rittenhouse ·
Award-winning New American tasting menu with creative cocktails
Award-winning New American tasting menu with creative cocktails
"Friday Saturday Sunday received its first star. Husband and wife duo Chad and Hanna Williams preside over this intimate, seasonal tasting menu upstairs, while downstairs the raucous bar serves some of the best cocktails in the city. The tasting menu costs $185 per person." - Maddy Sweitzer-Lamme
"Transformed by Chad and Hanna Williams from a longtime neighborhood stalwart into one of the country’s most-watched tasting‑menu restaurants, this landmark now carries a Michelin star. Downstairs, the cocktail den Lovers Bar has become a destination in its own right—already a finalist for the James Beard Outstanding Bar award—and that same room now sits within a Michelin‑starred restaurant." - Melissa McCart
"And Wednesday and Thursday. Chef Chad Williams and his wife Hanna, both Philadelphia natives, took over this veritable institution in 2016 and then pivoted to offering a set multicourse menu. It works well, as it allows the chef to provide a balanced, varied and consistent experience to all. Thanks to skilled technique, just the right amount of innovation and an innate understanding of the luxury ingredients he uses, his dishes fill the mouth with flavor and succulence. His delicious crispy sweetbreads will convert any skeptic; quail with pâte plays with texture, and the New York strip is a lesson in expert seasoning. Expect an atmosphere as spirited and enjoyable as the food; there’s also a great cocktail bar on the first floor." - The MICHELIN Guide
"The fine‑dining restaurant’s pastry program brings Michelin‑caliber craft to casual frozen desserts: nightly soft‑serve sundaes created by the pastry chef in the downstairs Lovers Bar pair adventurous flavor combinations (for example, passion fruit soft serve with shallot caramel and tropical fruit crunch) with the precision that defines the tasting‑menu kitchen." - Regan Stephens
"This two-story Rittenhouse spot has a first-floor bar and a more formal dining space upstairs that's filled with candles, leather booths, and stained glass windows surrounded by worn-down shutters. It’s an atmosphere that’s somehow both relaxing and uber-sophisticated, and no matter where you sit you’ll have an unforgettable meal. They serve an eight-course, $165 tasting menu, and you can expect things like perfectly executed beef tartare, charred octopus, crudo with caviar, and New York strip with cinnamon-y yams. When your meal is over, you can just head downstairs to their lively bar, have a few cocktails, and keep the night going. Reservations are released at 10am on the first of the month for the following month. Try that to book the tasting menu experience upstairs, or just claim you’re Rihanna's distant relative and hope for the best. FSS's downstairs bar is walk-in only, and it fills up around 5pm every day. Stop by for a drink and some snacks while you brainstorm an alternate celebrity to namedrop when Rihanna doesn’t land you a table." - candis mclean, alison kessler
