When one of our favorite musician’s (Ernie Halter) tour was passing through Philly last week, we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to check out a new part of town – the neighborhood of Penn’s Landing. Not knowing what to expect we arrived early and were pleasantly surprised with the amount of other bars/restaurants on the surrounding blocks. For this show, we opted out of having dinner downstairs beforehand at Serrano, with the notion that the dinner/show combo at most venues isn’t worth it. However, the high plate prices might be outweighed by the reserved table seating for the show since the only other seats are a single row of stools along one side wall and a few standing places way in the back at the bar. Nonetheless, it was a pretty neat (albeit awkward) space that had amazing sound. I plan on paying attention to upcoming shows at Tin Angel, but will likely shell out for dinner in order to get a front row seat.
