"Reading Terminal Market" Reading Terminal Market Tip by richiecdisc

Though markets were common in Philadelphia as far back as William Penn's day, they were mostly outdoor affairs and unorganized at that. Their move indoors paved the way for more cohesion and in 1892, The Reading Terminal Market opened its doors as the state-of-the-art market of the day.

It has not lost a bit of its popularity and though still very much a market, selling produce, meats and any number of food stuffs, it is also a major tourist attraction as well as one of the city's first and foremost food courts.

One of the big attractions are the Amish. They open up stalls every weekend and sell home a number of their traditional foods such as home-baked pies and old world recipe deserts like my favorite egg cup custard. Don't worry about your cholesterol, egg yolks almost HAVE to be good for you, right? Perhaps best of their wares are their freshly baked hand made pretzels. What makes them so exta good? It's all the butter they smear on them with a paint brush. Yup, you read that right: a paint brush.

Not in the mood for any of those delights? Try DiNick's. They have some of the best roast pork sandwiches in the city. Particularly good is the Italian pulled pork. Yum, yum, yum.

Want a beer? Try their beer garden. Well, it's not really a beer garden and not even outside but it does have some okay local beers. This is not a fancy place so don't expect expensive Belgian imports. They have Yuengling on tap, the US's oldest running brewery and not all that far from Philly. Yuengling lager is pretty common in the area but this place has their tasty porter on tap. My guess is it's the oldest continually made porter in the US.