this is for a series of posts for stephen starr restaurants including:alma de cuba, barclay prime, butcher and singer, continental midtown & martini bar, the dandelion, el rey, el vez, jones, parc, pizzeria stella, route 6 [1], route 6 [2], & square burger. one of our favorite places to get mexican food in philly is stephen starr's el vez. so it's no surprise that el vez's sister restaurant, el rey, offers similar tastes executed in prototypical starr fashion, along with a speakeasy in the form of the ranstead room out back.