The Fat Ham

Food is off the hook especially the hot chicken. Great quality, good service, and decent but small beer selection. Not my thing but enormous whiskey selection. Small place, pretty easy to get a walk in for 6 on a summer Saturday night but imagine the wait would be long when Drexel and Penn classes start. Highly recommended

Amazing sunday supper special! Great cocktails! We had the mook mule, and it was sooo tasty. The food was great from start to finish. The servers were on top of every course. I would highly recommend and I'm definitely going back! I didn't care too much for the banana bread/cake thing at the end. I thought that could have been better but for a 9 course gourmet meal for $30 you can't complain much I guess. A+++

Not going to win awards for healthy meals, but if you want good southern food, this is the place to come to. Came here for lunch, the food was good, even if the portions were a little small. Good cocktails, decent beer list.

Food ok ( salty for my preference) very small dining area. Good service tho. Small portions and it doesn't make sense because it's a southern food restaurant. But if you just want to go get drinks come here

One would think a Saturday night would cause a place like The Fat Ham to be busy, but I was the only one there when I walked in at 10:25PM. I know I know.. What a jerk for going to a place and ordering food so late. That time kind of deserves a response like that, but it's not like it was 10:45PM or something, and to be fair, I asked if I should even sit down because I've worked at a restaurant before and I know it is a pain for that one person to come in so late, kind of late. I was creating the space for honesty. He said to have a seat. I should have turned away when I had the chance. I felt like everything I was eating was the left overs from the day. Which, again, I don't mind that, like I mentioned, I've worked at a restaurant before. But what gets me is for a place claiming to be Southern, there was not an ounce of southern hospitality during my whole time there, what I mean is the service was poor, dry and non-exist. If you guys didn't want me there you should have just said so actively when I asked if I should take a seat rather than locking up the chairs outside and all the rest you when when you close down a restaurant I wanted to sit out there with a drink too. It was just awkward and I wish I didn't go there, which is not how you are suppose to feel when leaving a restaurant. And...I live in the south and I didn't get "Southern" food, but this critique is more about the service than its food.

My son and I saw Kevin Spraga win Top Chef. His second restaurant will not disappoint. The food is fabulous. My son said the Hot Chicken was the best chicken he ever had. Everything is delicious!

Fried carb overload!!! But it was phenomenal! A quarter chicken fried with a wonderfully crunchy coating and then dredged in a hot concoction, help me, oh it was so good. Well, this tasty viddle was placed atop a slice of homemade white bread that had a ranch dressing covered with pickles. When the bar tender said white bread, I cringed. But, since it home made, it wasn't processed in a bakery, so I felt a smidge better. Eaten together, the bread, ranch, pickle and crunch were enough to bring on the food dance and make you hum, mmm mmm mmmm. Okay, I'm almost done...ordered another tasty bourbon sassafrass thingey cause the fire from the chicken was intoxicattingly hot. Dessert was a sliver of buttermilk cheese cake served with fragrant blackberries. The venue is cozy and the dishes are mismatched or slices of logs. My Fat Ham experience all by myself was wonderful! The Fat Ham is okay for vegetarians too, despite the name.

A laughable attempt at southern dining. And I think it's because people in philadelphia have a skewed understanding of decency and hospitality so it isn't necessarily the restaurant's fault. Ridiculously long wait. Needless to say, I've given up on food in this city in general. It simply CAN'T get any worse. LOL