JRochelle Geter

Review of Latham Hotel Philadelphia

Going to Urban Enoteca, the hotel restaurant, is a...

Going to Urban Enoteca, the hotel restaurant, is a confusing experience. If you enter from the Walnut street side, there is a host desk, but no host to seat you, if you manage to wander in and find a waiter then you will be seated, or head to the bar.

I had the braised beef arancini and the beet salad. While both dishes were filling they weren't interesting or exciting. The arancini had more mushrooms than beef, and there was barely any of either. The arugula salad that accompanied it was pretty good and the fried capers were a nice compliment to the heaviness of the fried rice and cheeses. The beet salad was nothing spectacular either.

After asking for bread, I received several slices of the four cheese bread and the potato leek bread. I could not taste potatoes or leeks. The wine is poured from the tap and they claim it enhances the flavor, but it tasted a little flat to me.

Although the dessert options looked good, I didn't want to suffer through another course.