We scored a rez for two at the highly touted, super-hip, super-popular (thx, NYT Best of Philly list 
), TINY Filipino resto Tabachoy last night. We’d hoped to go with two more peeps including @Bigley9, but reservations at a reasonable dining hour, i.e. NOT 5pm were hard to come by for the days we had in mind 
Despite having a rez for counter seating,
we were sat at a 2-top right next to the door — something that would’ve bothered me if the tiny room hadn’t been on the warmer side, so the occasional draft from the ins & outs was actually quite pleasant.
We shared the starter sampler (loempia, Tabachoy Caesar & Chance’s fried wings),
followed by a small order of the pork adobo and garlic rice.
The last time I had loempia was in my teens, and I always thought those were the best I’d ever had (save for my ex’s Thai mom’s, which were also spectacular).
Theirs were amazing, and the Caesar was fantastic as well. The wings were just ok for us.
The adobo was tender & flavorful, and the garlic rice may turn me into a rice convert after all. We are really hoping to return with a bigger crew, and try some of the other things on the menu — although both the loempia and the Caesar will make an encore appearance, for sure 
The place is BYOB, which makes it very affordable, and it’s in the top 3 meals we’ve had in Philly so far. I somehow couldn’t stop myself from taking a pic of the restaurant’s ‘mascot’ reflection in the window, which was perfect from where I was sitting 
Pigs being pigs n 'at.
