Best Restaurants for Spicy Food in South Philly

Great location! Easy to find… we walked from the convention center. Big menu:) loved spinach chatta… lamb chops tandori seasoned well. Yummy nan and fresh basmati rice! Goat and vegetarian kormas were delish! Samosas were crispy and perfectly cooked! Cocktail’s were delicious, although small Great meal we will return!

We have been coming here for the last 4 years and the staff / space feels like family. Our child has grown up on their tacos al pastor and rice and beans. Love their ceviches, aguachile and guajillo ribs as well.

I met a friend for the lunch buffet. Server provided two types of naan and masala tea. He was kind enough to make it iced, since we had a heat wave that day. Inside was cool and comfortable. There were many choices of vegetarian and chicken/ fish dishes. We were not rushed and the food was freshly prepared and flavorful.

Love that Flannel brunch is back for the weekend.

Toska (Töska?) is a laid-back two-storey restaurant in what I would say is the main drag (or village center) of Mount Airy. The décor is simple, spare, and there are attractive blown-glass-looking accents strung on cables. The server was quite friendly, which in Philadelphia is not a given. We ordered eggplant parmesan sitting atop fettuccine in the requisite marinara sauce, which my husband liked a great deal, and a Wagyu burger on brioche, which was surprisingly good: the bacon was done exactly right, not sliced too thickly, and the burger was medium-rare as I had asked. French fries are decent, certainly abundant, but they're a little flaccid (they are, however, "real" fries, not the heated-up deep-freeze variety we see so often). A salad with cucumber and fennel and small tomatoes was perfect, as was the burrata on a bed of arugula with slightly roasted small tomatoes and a vinaigrette. I like a slightly more room-temperature burrata and one that is a bit less firm, but this one was fine. The ambience is good, except that the much-touted wood-burning oven perfumes the entire restaurant a little more than it should. Also, it would be good to have sparkling bottled water on the menu.