Pennsylvania-born Taylor Swift is making her Eras Tour debut in her home state at Lincoln Financial Field for three nights starting Friday and Philly’s restaurants and bars are ready for it with specials just for Swifties. If you’re lucky enough to have tickets, you can get your pregame on at one of many spots in the city celebrating the state’s biggest pop icon.
Here are some spots celebrating Taylor and her record-breaking Eras tour:
The Dutch, a breakfast, lunch, and dinner eatery on 11th Street, is serving a trio of craft cocktails inspired by Swift’s vast catalog of hit singles, all weekend. The lineup includes a Lavender Haze ($15), made with gin, sparkling wine, simple syrup, lemon juice, and garnished with butterfly pea flowers, Getaway (Side)Car ($15), mixed with Jamaican rum, cognac, pineapple shrub, and lime juice, and White Horse ($15), prepared with pear and cardamom-infused vodka, house-made coffee liqueur, and topped with a cream float.
Latchkey, East Passyunk Avenue’s independently-owned vinyl record and retail store, is hosting a Taylor Swift Concert Pre-Game on Friday from 5 – 7 pm. All Taylor Swift vinyl (including Midnights) will be 10 percent off and DJ Marc Faletti will be spinning Taylor Swift tunes (digitally). Free glasses of a mini-cocktail dubbed “Red” will be served to anyone 21 and over. Fans can also play an expertly curated Taylor Swift-centric board game which includes a mix of Swifty trivia.
Xfinity Live!, the sports-anchored venue just steps from Lincoln Financial Field, is hosting a pregame party all weekend. Before each concert, Xfinity Live! will host Tay-Gates, an immersive pregame party featuring a DJ, a dance party, themed cocktails, photo booths, a costume contest and more. The party will be hosted in Xfinity Live!’s outside plaza. Tickets are $50 each and include admission and access to a food buffet. Tickets to the stadium concert are not required to attend the Tay-Gate experience. This is an all-ages event but guests must be over 21 to drink.
On Saturday, May 6, Xfinity Live! is hosting The Swifty Drag Brunch from 11 am – 2 pm featuring performances of Swift’s biggest hits, paired with brunch favorites such as Banana French Toast, Enchiladas, Nachos and Taylor Swift-inspired cocktails. Fans can reserve a picnic table for 6 at $30 per person (must purchase 6 seats).
Assembly Rooftop Lounge, The Logan Hotel’s year-round bar is serving up themed cocktails such as a Lavender Haze ($16) with butterfly tea infused Stateside Vodka, St. Germain, lime, and club soda.
If you didn’t manage to get tickets to Taylor Swift you and your Swifties can listen and watch as the pop star’s biggest hits come to life in dazzling laser light at the Edelman Planetarium in Glassboro. The show plays Saturdays through June.
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