Philly Eatery Among Best New Restaurants In The Country According To GQ

GQ recently listed the best new restaurants in America, and Philly, being a food mecca in and of itself, is featured in the list. Rooster Soup Co. in Center City was listed as one of the best new places to eat in the country.

Rooster Soup Co. was started by the same people who brought us Federal Donuts, which is know for its donuts (duh) and fried chicken.

What might be even better than Rooster Soup Co.'s food are its ethics.

Not only does the restaurant use left over parts from fried chicken made for Federal Donuts, it donates all proceeds to the Broad Street Hospitality Collaborative.

"In 2014, Broad Street Ministry and Federal Donuts partnered with more than 1,500 supporters to crowdfund a restaurant that would convert unused food into meals and services for people who need it most," Rooster Soup Co.'s website reads. "100% of the profits of this restaurant support the Hospitality Collaborative’s mission of providing meals and social services for Philadelphia’s most vulnerable citizens."

The mission of Rooster Soup Co. is extremely noble, but you have to eat there to support its mission.

Check out what GQ has to say about the altruistic restaurant :

Open from breakfast through early-bird dinner, it offers loving re-imaginings of East Coast Jewish-inflected diner favorites: chicken schnitzel served with beet-and-dill spread on homemade Martin's Butter Bread; a chicken potpie enlivened by hawaij, a Yemeni spice blend; smoked-matzo-ball soup.

You can read GQ's full take on Rooster Soup Co. online here.

Rooster Soup Co. is located at 1526 Sansom St., Philadelphia.

Learn more about the restaurant's mission and history at its website here.

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