Philly trip report

After our stop in Hershey, we headed to Philadelphia. On the way, we stopped in King of Prussia for lunch at Wonder, which lets you order from a bunch of different “restaurants” within. There’s very limited seating but we nabbed some to eat our huge repentant salads (grownups) and kids burger and fries. I was skeptical about the concept of Wonder but the food was great and the prices, as they promise, are pretty reasonable given that with the model it’s mostly takeout and that the “restaurants” are co-located. We had a very important reservation for the Bluey experience at the KOP mall, which my daughter thoroughly enjoyed, her parents less so :rofl:. It’s an enormous mall but we didn’t stick around, other than to pop into the Polish craft store for a wooden hand painted Easter egg.

After that, we drove into Philly and checked into our hotel. We had a quick cocktail/Shirley Temple at our hotel’s bar and then grabbed an Uber to Amada. My husband and I have been here at least 3 times just the two of us, and we figured the Sunday “tapas and vino” special (discounted wine and assorted $6 tapas) would be a great opportunity for our daughter to try tapas for the first time. We were told we needed to be in the bar room to partake, but after I reasoned with our very reasonable waiter, he relented and let us order off of that menu. We ordered one of everything off the tapas and vino menu and they definitely are not dialing it in for this special. They are full size versions, most heavily discounted to $6. I’ll attach some photos. The tortilla, cockles, chamuça (spiced lamb turnover in phyllo), and patatas bravas were favorites off that menu. We got a salad off the regular menu, which was enormous and a nice fresh crunchy counterpart to all the many tapas. We also got inexplicably gifted two freebies off the regular menu, the manager citing the long wait for a particular dish which none of us noticed since we were too busy stuffing our faces. One was calamari, not a favorite of mine, but done very nicely, tender with a potato foam, and a spinach and Manchego cheese empanada that was gooey on the inside and flaky on the outside. Cocktails were great - love their g&ts. My daughter gave her first tapas experience two thumbs up and somehow still had room for dessert.

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Thanks for the review! I haven’t been to Amada is quite some time but the tapas and vino special sounds like it is worth checking out!

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We went for an anniversary dinner there a long time ago. I think we liked it, and may have gone for a similar deal :thinking:

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Dessert was at Matcha Panda, for all things matcha. They have booths with enormous stuffed animals (think Costco sized) and lots of sweet treats. My husband got a matcha coffee drink with a delicious creamy matcha foam and we split the chocolate Lady M style crepe cake (they were out of the pistachio) and a variation on one of their specialty sundaes with matcha ice cream and boba. Fun place for an after dinner treat.



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Worth going just for the cute pandas. :panda_face:

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