Coffee & Treats in Drexel Hill

Old Fashioned Candy and Ice Cream Store in Philadelphia for over 150 years. Family Owned and Operated single location. Specializing in custom blended ice cream and yogurt, inside the oldest candy shop in town.

Tea is said to lower stress, boost alertness, and taste like tea. Loosen your leaves at The Random Tea Room & Curiosity Shop, a zen-steeped Northern Liberties tea shop abrew with artisanal teas, house-blended herbal infusions, baked goods, French-press Old City Coffee, vintage goods, and locally made jewelry. This Groupon gets you $10 worth of anything in the shop for just $5.

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Helmed by Fabio Scarpelli, an energetic Italian with a serious sweet tooth, Golosa is best known for its dozen varieties of hot drinking chocolate. Unlike the messy, powder-based brews chugged in ski lodges and space stations that haven't yet realized they've been abandoned, Golosa's cups of cocoa are thick, authentic, and velvety smooth. Try the spicy Peperoncino kicked up with red chili pepper ($6), or sink into the warm caramel base of the salty, gooey Salata al Caramello ($6). Equally exotic elixirs such as the Cardamom and White Pepper ($6) and Speziata ($6) pair well with the tiramisu, chocolate crème brûlée, pumpkin cheesecake, and other forkable treats on Golosa's rotating menu.

One of the longest-running local espresso establishments, Capriccio Cafe keeps eyelids ajar and hunger pangs at bay with specialty coffee drinks, fresh pastries, and grilled sandwiches. Enjoy a medium latte ($3.50) or a Ghirardelli mocha frappe ($4) to time-travel taste buds back to childhoods spent drinking steamed milk and chocolate syrup. Coffee lovers can also experience the liquid marshmallow sensation of a vanilla-seasoned latte ($3.35+) alongside breakfast treats including crumb cake ($2.25) and danishes ($2.75), which call out like Sirens to a sea of empty stomachs.

Like a dessert-driven Donatello, Whipped Bakeshop's Zoë Lukas uses flour and a free-flowing imagination to sculpt sumptuous cakes, cookies, and cupcakes that target clients' sweet teeth and soft spots. A Jack Daniels whiskey-bottle cake will wow the guests at your daughter's seventh birthday party, while a Yoda cake is a special way to show the adorkable Dagobah-dweller in your life just how much you appreciate his or her training. Sushi cakes shine like samurai steel, and taco-topped cupcakes combine two of the world's greatest foods (three, if the taco contains a cheeseburger). Lukas also ices and dices more traditional and equally tasty baked goods. Whipped Bakeshop uses only the freshest natural ingredients from butter bushes and chocolate trees for its pieces of pastry perfection.