november 27, 2012 tags:philadelphia, restaurants by colleen if you’ve ever been to philadelphia, you might have noticed the popularity of byob (bring your own bottle) restaurants. what’s amazing is that there are some very high end places without liquor licenses, making fine dining inphiladelphiaquite affordable (that is, if you’re a wine drinker like me). i now appreciate the fancy places, but my best memories from college inphiladelphiaare from some favorite cheap italian byobs. that’s not to say that these restaurants are bad; let’s just say that the focus was the wine at the time. still, i remember always enjoying my food at these restaurants, so we made a reservation at one favorite – la viola – the night before thephiladelphiamarathon . this time the focus would be on the food, and i was curious to see how much of my love for la viola was just wine-fueled. we arrived 15 minutes early for our 7:30 reservation. as it got closer to 7:30, people started pouring in and there w