RESTAURANT WEEK - Giuseppe & Sons Italian Restaurant

*Note, please be sure to bring cash as restaurants rarely split the check* Also note, as of this posting, the "restaurant week" menu has not been made available, therefore, I have only included the regular menu. On the Center City Restaurant Week Website, it states that there will be a special $45.00 menu. Once they post it, I will add it here.

There’s a moment at Giuseppe & Sons, the new art installation from the Schulson Collective, that’s pure magic. If you’ve been there—which is likely, judging from the crowds rushing in every day—you know the moment I’m talking about: the staircase down, and the gentle curve of the long hallway leading to the doorway spilling soft golden light.
And if you haven’t been yet, let me explain how, for dinner, you’re met at the door by young men in nice suits and beards, all wearing earpieces with wires trailing into their jackets.

You say, “Dinner?” and they say, “Of course. Right this way.” Then they lift an arm and usher you downstairs. It feels special, even though it’s ridiculous. But you go, footsteps silent until you reach the bottom and make a turn into a cream-colored hallway hung with a thousand framed photos. You can hear music and muffled voices, see a sliver of the bar and the passing blurs of bodies in motion. The closer you get, the louder everything gets. And then you’re there, stepping from the plain and ordinary world into a swirling, garlic-scented, gold-hued heaven of liquor and red sauce.

It’s big, and it’s gorgeous. The menu is straight red sauce, no chaser. Every dish, from the gnocchi pomodoro to the Sunday gravy, is presented in stripped-down, deliberately homespun fashion. So there’s no cheffery here, no interpretation. It’s an example of wise restraint.

Inspired by generations of Italian cooking and culture, Giuseppe & Sons brings a fresh and modern twist to Italian-American classics.

Join us in our downstairs dining room for an evening filled with hand pulled mozzarella, handmade pastas, and elevated Italian staples.

Menu: https://giuseppesons.com/menu