Alas, Joe Wolf sold Wolf's Market.  Alas again, the new owner has totally changed the place.  I'm already missing Wolf's Market.  It was my regular take-out lunch spot.

Joe Wolf knows good food.  Good, solid food.  Wolf's Market has all the Center City yup-scale fodder you'd expect, but also turns out some of the best road food in Philadelphia.

I am serious about hamburgers.  Very serious.  I would never order a burger from a market.  And I didn't order a burger from Wolf's.  Somehow my order for a grilled cheese and tomato sandwich turned into a Wolf Burger - a perfectly grilled hamburger on a kaiser roll with onions, peppers and mushrooms, and topped with provolone.   One bite; "my what the hell -  it's not worth the hassle of returning it" attitude changed into "Eureka, I might have stumbled upon the best hamburger in Center City."  At least it's in my top three, the other two burgers being from Monk's Cafe and The Palm.

Now I alternate.  Burger one time.  Grilled cheese the next.  We're talking a Holly-sized grilled cheese sandwich - thick Texas toast,  a thick lay of cheddar, thick slices of tomatoes.  

Either way, be sure to wash your sandwich down with a bottle of Rosenberger's chocolate milk.