PHILADELPHIA MAGAZINE

Not to worry — owner Jezabel Careaga has big things planned for the future.

Tucked away as it is, Jezabel’s Cafe has managed to hold down the fort in Fitler Square — a delicious, reliable neighborhood staple that serves Argentinean empanadas and alfajores, quick breakfasts and healthy lunches to its neighbors and the students and teachers at the nearby Philadelphia School. It is thoroughly and undeniably a spot for locals, but in its eight and a half years at the corner of 26th and Pine Streets (it used to go by Gavin’s Cafe), the cafe became a destination. The kind of baking its owner Jezabel Careaga is doing over there is easily some of the best in Philly.