With Center City Restaurant Week around the corner, suddenly opentable.com doesn't seem so open anymore and power-wielding hostesses scoff at even the most desperate reservation requests: "Monday night, 10:45, for two?" Avoid the masses flocking to Steven Starr's playgrounds for the prix fixe, prix inflated menus. Instead of spending your Monday night arm-wrestling the couple next to you for table space, sit back at home and check out diningin.com. It's easy to advocate a delivery service that charges only $6.74 to bring downtown food to your "zone," and now that Amada - Jose Garces's famed Tapas restaurant in Old City - is new on the option list, it's definitely worth it. So this restaurant week, stay in bed, click on some Spanish flatbreads (I recommend the pato con datiles, duck confit with date glaze), and wait 45 minutes for a wonderful meal to arrive at your doorstep.

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