When Ellie Smedley started working at Kava Haus in Wilmington the summer of 2017, she didn’t expect to have a cafe of her own nearly seven years later.

In Philadelphia, romance blooms over pastéis de natas in Fishtown, slices of Mexican pizza in South Philly, pierogi in Kensington, momos in Roxborough, and tiramisu in the Italian Market. All these ...