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Pan-seared salmon with wild mushroom, horseradish, and red wine is on the Center City District Restaurant Week menu at Rouge.
Pan-seared salmon with wild mushroom, horseradish, and red wine is on the Center City District Restaurant Week menu at Rouge.Read moreMICHAEL KLEIN / Staff

Rouge

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Rouge ushered in the city’s era of sidewalk dining back when it flung open its French doors way back in 1998. Since then, the Rittenhouse Square eatery has endured it all — ownership and chef shifts, an interior redesign, the rise of a hundred al fresco competitors — and remains, thanks to its cozy Parisian vibes and that signature gruyere-topped burger.

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Restaurant Details

205 South 18th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19103
https://www.rouge98.com/
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