De Ja Vu
- March 17, 2002
- Rated 4 of 5 by
roza4 from Cinnaminson, New Jersey
This is yet another Russian restaurant in Northeast Philly. It is located on a shopping plaza called Leo Mall next to K-mart right on Bustleton Ave. The restaurant is open in the evenings and Saturday is their busiest day. If you want to celebrate your birthday with your friends, make reservations in advance. This is also a nice place for smaller weddings, it can accomodate 150-200 people. The flower arrangements are very nice and the band is just great. Sometimes if your birthday is on a Sunday, you can have the whole restaurant just to yourself and the band will be playing and singing for your party. It is really a great experience. The food is very good: lots of fish dishes, caviar, herring, also chicken, pork, beef, different vegetable salads. They also have birthday cakes and they serve them in portions or you can bring your own and ask them to cut it. A lot of people know each other and this can be the only place they see each other in a while. Also everybody dresses up for the restaurant; women come in evening dresses, men wear suits.
From journal Philadelphia - city of culture, Part II