After tooling around South Philly all day, there was something refreshingly
sophisticated about grabbing a seat at the bar at Vernick Food & Drink, the kind of
quietly refined, smoothly run restaurant that
feels... adult, in the best possible way [Amiel: You getting mailings from AARP yet, AR?].
The space's neutral tones make it
feel quietly sophisticated, and wooden accent tables, leather chairs and a seagrass rug add textural interest.
She
quietly but persistently embellishes her paintings so that they start to
feel like
sophisticated, even radiant, cartoons of Abstract paintings.