Name: America’s Oldest Italian Restaurant Makes The Best Meatballs In Philly | Legendary Eats
Uploaded: 2020-11-01T18:25:22.000Z
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Taryn Varricchio: Plates of meatballs beside twirls

best spaghetti and meatballs for 120 years.

Customer: If you like traditional Italian red-gravy

Sunday dinner, this is the place to come.

chefs stay busy making 1,200 meatballs a week.

since the restaurant's very first menu, in 1900.

Jimmy Rubino: I mean, this is stuff that my

I'd say about 95% of the menu that you see now

It's red sauce. It's just good Italian food.

Taryn: But not every Italian restaurant in Philly

Other restaurants either use just beef, just pork,

But Jimmy sticks to two meats that bring out

a smooth and tender texture in each meatball.

Jimmy: A lot of people, a lot of restaurants,

a lot of people make their meatballs with just ground beef.

makes it nice and lighter, as opposed to,

Taryn: He adds small cubes of wet Italian bread

dry herbs, and sautéed, caramelized garlic.

And then Jimmy uses about 4 ounces of meat

so they get a crispier coating on the outside

while staying soft and juicy on the inside.

because if you put the meatballs in there

and then you'll end up with oily meatballs.

Taryn: Once the meatballs turn dark brown,

Customer: I've always had a great meal here.

he uses the pork to give it that silky, velvety texture.

And it really is, it's, like, smoother and silkier,

and not, like, packed, compacted ground beef.

You get kind of, like, two different dimensions

Customer: We've been coming here for at least 45 years.

Taryn: Ralph's officially became the oldest

continuously owned by the founding family in 2012,

when a restaurant in San Francisco closed.

But it wasn't without a few bumps along the way.

Jimmy: You're talking about depression, world wars,

my grandfather would serve them wine in coffee cups

'cause you weren't allowed to serve alcohol then.

Taryn: And those customers have kept coming back.

to the loyal locals who consider it a staple

couldn't imagine South Philly without it.

Customer: This is certainly a part of the city.

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America’s Oldest Italian Restaurant Makes The Best Meatballs In Philly | Legendary Eats

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