Thirteen

Terrific service, reasonable food though somewhat expensive, charming cosmopolitan atmosphere. This is an especially good choice in Center City on a Friday or Saturday night when every other decent restaurant in town is too crowded to get a table. I had the pork chop and my partner had the brisket sandwich special. Both were delicious.
Just hope you don’t have to go to the bathroom, because they keep theirs locked. We ended up having to use the filthy bathroom at the train station next door. A restaurant of this quality and expense really should treat its customers a little better. Epic fail.

I had the crab and corn chowder soup of the day and it was excellent. Never had crab that tasted so fresh and it made my girlfriend enjoy crab from a lifetime of hating it. Its a bit pricey but If you can handle the up charge then you won’t regret it

The Unilocal Menu and the Menu inside Thirteen don’t match AT ALL. Literally half the Menu items shown on Unilocal are not available. No Wedge Salad. No peel and eat shrimp. No Sea Bass. It goes on and on. Nothing whatsoever for a child to eat. The prices are wrong, too. Much higher at the restaurant. Stuff listed for $ 12 is really $ 16, for example.

Came for a business reception, staff was friendly and extremely attentive. Had finger foods so I didn’t order from the menu but I would definitely recommend the coconut shrimp of they are on it.

Never reviewed. Also never walked out of a restaurant before. There’s a first for everything! The hostess sat us right away and then waited for 30 minutes (no exaggeration) and no one even took a drink order. There were two waiters walking right past us, making eye contact, but never even greeted us. One bus boy saw we weren’t being attended to about 15 minutes in and got us waters and said someone would be right over to take our order.
Another 15 minutes later, another table came in and sat behind us. They were immediately greeted by the waitress who kept walking by our table, and their order was taken. That’s when we got up and left. Another bus boy tried to stop us saying someone would come over, but we weren’t waiting any longer. Absolutely ridiculous.

Very nice bar right after a long drive and running around the city sightseeing. Just what I needed. A quite place with a decent selection of beers to relax. Service was excellent. I didn’t eat anything but will be back tomorrow for a few more beers. Will recommand if you are looking for quite bar before dinner. Menu didn’t look like something I would like to eat.

First time here and it was great but I’ll explain why 3 instead of 4 stars. Wife and I came here as a comp due to a slight mishap. As you enter the interior is pretty nice and the ligjting is something out of Star Wars (see photo). The breakfast menu is very limited and averages $ 15 a person. Wife had an omelet and I had what they called The Big Philly. The Big Philly comprises of 2 eggs, I chosen scrambled, bacon, English muffins, home fries, and french toast with a blueberry muffin on the side. Supposedly my order comes with non stop oj but that didn’t really happen. The fries were ok and had sprinkles of bacon and cheese mixed in, which were a nice touch but the scallions were not cooked and looked like they were added as an after thought. The eggs were good and fluffy. The bacon were not too oily and weren’t burnt but extra crispy like potato chips. The French Toast was sprinkled with powdered sugsr and comes with butter and syrup on the side for a d.i.y. project. The waitress came once in a while to check on us and was nice to us. Overall besides the menu, how the food were prepared, it was great. In my opinion, if you are hermit crab and do not like leaving the hotel, then this is the place for you. With the reading terminal market and other restaurants across the street and behind the hotel, I’d rather go out and explore.

Went here last last for dinner, as I am spending a few nights in the Marriott for a conference. I was pretty underwhelmed with the food. Things started off with a $ 14 peach margarita. Though delicious, it was served in a very small glass and I felt jipped! I was expecting a margarita served in a margarita glass! Silly me.
Next — dinner. I did the crab corn chowder and a caesar salad. Both were decent but they were seved in those gross generic pastel colored plastic bowls that you always get in a cafeteria! No china? Really? The place looks nice and then destroys it in the details.

The hotel offer us for the breakfast. It was very well service, the lady start with beautiful smile and help us with the drinks and order.
The food was very well prepared, large portion with neat decoration. The omelette I got was very well made and tasty. Very good experience in here at thirteenth.

I came here for breakfast with my friend since we needed a quick, big meal before a long day at the convention we were attending.
We opted for the $ 22 breakfast buffet (which comes with drinks).
The options were pretty limited but it’s the same stuff you’d find elsewhere.
The organization of the buffet didn’t really seem to have a flow. And people were all over the place.
I had the eggs, which were bland so I had to add hot sauce and pepper to it. The sausage was okay. The grits were alright. The biscuit was alright. The breakfast potatoes were decent. See where I’m going with this?
The waffle, omlette station, etc. are all the same line. That took a WHILE to get. Though, my waffle came with a cute Liberty Bell design on it, which was pretty good. The maple syrup that came with it was super hot so be careful of those little digits!
The waitress was friendly and checked in here and there with us.
Otherwise, it’s alright.

A supposedly upscale restaurant that feels like Denny’s. Overpriced and underserved.
I had the crab cakes… endless to say, skip it, and this restaurant.

We stopped in for lunch after the Flower Show and were promptly seated — and that was the fastest service we experienced at 13.
We were seated at a table for four and were provided with a small, but varied and serviceable lunch menu with starters, salads, sandwiches and some other options including a vegetarian Portobello mushroom and cheese ‘burger’.
The waitress took our orders about 15 minutes after we were given menus and then the wait began.
The four of us ordered two ‘Philly Cheese Steak’ sandwiches, a cheeseburger and the hangar steak and eggs. Not a difficult or time consuming order but it took well over 40 minutes for our food to arrive.
Based on the service, there was not a high expectation that the food would be hot or good — and luckily, the food was served both hot and it was tasty. The ‘Philly Cheese Steak’ was not a true cheesesteak (and since we are in the town famous for cheesesteaks, it was odd) but it was a good sandwich served with very good French fries. The cheeseburger as also cooked perfectly and served hot as was the hangar steak (served rare as requested) with a loose, sunny side up egg.
The food was well above most hotel restaurant fare and we all felt our dishes were very good.
If the service was better — faster — and the dining chairs less shabby looking; the rating for 13 would be much higher.
As it was, the ambiance and the service really knocked the rating down to a ‘meh’ from a very good overall; but the food was definitely above average.

So I was staying in the hotel and decided to eat breakfast at the hotel restaurnt. I knew it would be pr8cey but I had been here before and enjoyed the beeakfast menu.
I will say the hostess was polite and showed me to the table in the back. This is where it went downhill. I had to wait 10 – 15 before my waiter came to greet me. You wpuld probably say maybe he was busy but I saw him chatting with other waiters so that excuse won’t work.
I guess he must of seen the look on my face because he really didn’t strike up a conversation with me like his other guest which was fine. At this point I just wanted my food and leave.
I’m going to chalk this up as a seperate incident and probably continue to come here when I’m in the city but you will get better choices and prices across the street at the terminal market.

Didn’t expect much so my hopes weren’t let down. Pretty mediocre place. Ordered a medium well bacon burger the 1^st visit and came across a pretty tough burger with little flavor. Next day I got the crab cake entrée which was actually fairly good. Nice drink prices and great service at the bar saved the experience however

The food was decent, but I think my expectations exceeded what I actually got.
My dinner began with the Corn and Crab Chowder. It was good, but not phenomenal.
Same goes for the Lobster Papperdelle. I liked it, but it didn’t «wow» my taste buds. It was lacking some sort of pizzaz… like large quantities of butter?
The prices were decent for a hotel restaurant in a metro area, (Papperdelle was $ 23 and the soup was $ 8), but maybe a little high for a regular restaurant (not inside a hotel).
Our server was attentive and always made sure we got what we needed.
Would go back to try some other things on their menu. They had a lot of tasty-​sounding entrees. Hopefully those items will have a little more «zing» to them.

For breakfast, not awesome. Far better choices in the Reading Terminal station across the street.
Not well prepared food, and, very sloppy service.

Stayed at the Marriott for the week — was too cold to walk outside to find restaurants so dined here twice. Both times I had the crab and corn chowder — good portion size, really creamy. The second night I had it, the soup was lukewarm, server took it back and brought back a fresh heated bowl replenished to the top — thanks chef!
Had the grilled pork chop one night — it was ok — portion size was large, piece was thick but thought it a little bit dry.
Second time ordered the Maryland crab cake appetizer with my soup for dinner — I was full with just that.
All in all, food was fine for a hotel restaurant — I would have thought there would be more eating places within the hotel but I guess since many are walking distance outside of the hotel that it is expected most patrons would do that.
It’s a good place to sit and relax after a long week of business travels.

Only had the lobster Mac and cheese and that was all I needed to have to give it 4 stars. Scrummy nummy!!!
Terrible music though

This place is located inside the Marriott on the east side of the hotel. We came here late night after a wedding and were the only ones in the whole place, and we were just having drinks, so this review does not pertain to the food here.
The bar tenders were on the older side but were fairly quick. We sat around the bar area and it was actually great having the place to ourselves. I;‘m not sure if they stayed open for us or not, but if our group was not there, this place would have been completely empty. Good for a hotel bar, but I wouldn’t make it my destination for the night.

Horrible food and service! Never again! Worst dining experience ever.
Had a 70+ year old woman waiting on us, which is fine except for the fact that it took 10 minutes for us to be seen. Did not bring us water without us having to request it first.
Food was horrendous (we’re suffering through stomach cramps now). The only blessing was that she understood our request to leave by a certain time and accommodated us.
Hovered over us when presented with the check.
Stay away!!! Was hoodwinked when I saw this place hopping during happy hour — but that’s the outside patio area. Who knows — drinks might be decent.