Creative Comfort Food: Marathon Grill Review
Want to see something entertaining? Mention the words ‘chain restaurant’ to a food lover and gauge her reaction. It is almost guaranteed that face contortions and nose-in-the-air snobbery will ensue. A renewed interest in haute dining has nearly put a proverbial nail in the coffin of chain restaurants–even forcing a record number of recognizable national brands to shutter their doors or file bankruptcy. Once a beloved part of the American landscape, chain restaurants have become the poster child for assembly line-produced pedestrian, unimaginative fare. For the...
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Iris McCarthy is a food writer and author of the popular book Food Lovers' Guide to Philadelphia. This website is where she gets to sound off on all things culinary.