Family owned since 1981.
Philadelphia is a port city, and close proximity to rivers and the Atlantic coast has, for generations, made seafood dishes at least as Philadelphian as the cheesesteak. Your grandfather might have slid onto a stool at the Pearl’s counter as a young man to enjoy classics like oyster stew, snapping turtle soup, or a fish fry. While today’s menu still includes these cooked-from-scratch, fresh seafood classics, second-generation owner Dave Braunstein, whose family took over Pearl’s in 1981, has ushered the long-standing Reading Terminal vendor into a new era.
You’ll still find these classics alongside fresh oysters and clams on the half-shell and freshly fried seafood platters and sandwiches, but joining them on the menu are some of the trendiest sit-down breakfast, lunch, and brunch options in the Market. Bacon and apple walnut french toast, crab cakes benedict, pan seared scallops with butternut squash, oyster sliders, and wickedly popular crabby deviled eggs. At Pearl’s you’ll find fresh ocean flavors, any way you like them.
Some of our favorites…
What people are saying.
“ Half the pleasure of slurping bivalves at Pearl’s Oyster Bar is watching the world go by. Nearly everyone who visits the city, along with a hefty representation of locals, swings through its home in the Reading Terminal Market.”
— USA Today: 10 Best
Philadelphia Dining Guide 2019: Best Seafood Places
— Philadelphia Inquirer
“No, really. I know the name might be misleading, but this seafood joint at Reading Terminal does a solid, sit-down breakfast with bacon and banana french toast, shrimp and grits benedict, and fried chicken and waffles.”
— Philadelphia Magazine: Best Breakfast in Center City
Visit Us
51 N 12th St, Philadelphia, PA 19107
(Located Inside Reading Terminal Market - Entrance on 12th & Filbert St)
Open 7 Days A Week
Phone
(215) 964-9792
pearlsrtm@gmail.com