Joey Baldino's day job is chef-owner of Zeppoli in Collingswood, which sits high on most best-Italian-restaurant lists in the region. But for the last two years, he's been working under the radar on a passion project near his boyhood home in South Philadelphia.

Joey's family ran the Filippo Palizzi Social Club since the early 1950s, and when his uncle began to decline, he decided to fix it up - restoring it to its early glory and serving a South Philly-style Italian American menu (smelts, spaghetti and crabs, and the like).