Real Food Eatery

Real Food Eatery was founded on July 20th 2016 with a simple mission: create delicious food from the highest quality ingredients possible, brought from Mother Earth to your plate with minimal adulteration. We are forever grateful for our amazing team and the supportive guests who have made this mission a success since we opened our doors. I decided... to launch RFE in order to change the way that Philadelphia thinks about food. Over the last decade Philadelphia has been lauded as a food destination, a haven for foodies. Ive come to resent this term immensely. Its often interwoven into a chef culture that prides style over substance. Restaurants and foodies go to extreme lengths to beautify a dish, often interspersing frou-frou for the sake of photography. Worse yet, low quality ingredients are worked into a dish to achieve maximum flavor, shifting real food to the backseat. Theater has long been a part of the restaurant experience. Ambience and decor are key reasons why some restaurants thrive and others fail, and when executed properly while coupled with top-notch hospitality, a restaurant can literally transform itself into performance art, elevating ones dining experience to great lengths. Its now commonplace for the theatrics to reign supreme. But at its core at least for me the experience should really revolve around the quality and integrity of the food that is being served. However, with forces like social media where aesthetic is given top priority; and review sites like Yelp where everyones a critic and most are seeking some type of umami flavor explosion this style over substance movement doesnt appear ripe for change anytime soon. RFE seeks to throw a wrench in this trend. Menu integrity is paramount, but not at the sacrifice of hospitality and ambience. Why cant all three exist in harmony, where the menu guides the aesthetic? Our goal was to create an atmosphere that is a natural realization of real food: authentic and vibrant. The food comes first. Then everything else begins to take shape. But what ...Read More