Tom Burgoyne (self-described as "the Phanatic's best friend")
Phillie Phanatic, official mascot of the Philadelphia Phillies Major League Baseball team
"Obviously, the Phanatic loves Phillies baseball at Citizens Bank Park. If you're there, visit the Phanatic Attic. It's a spot dedicated solely to him. There's a huge statue of the Phanatic there - he has a big ego. What a lot of people don't realize, though, is that the Phanatic is a rare species of bird from the Galápagos Islands. So he loves to unwind at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, 340 acres of privately held land that butts up against the Schuylkill River. You can go on nature walks and see all sorts of wildlife [there]."

Larry Platt
Editor of Philadelphiamagazine
"My favorite thing to do in Philly is to go to Stephen Starr's chichi steak house, Barclay Prime. But instead of hitting the high-priced dining room, I head to the bar, where I order a couple (or more) drinks and the following reasonably priced items: Kobe beef sliders, tater tots, and Nueske bacon, which has a strong maple-syrup flavor. I sit there and … luxuriate in actually feeling my arteries harden as I chew."