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As the race heads west across town for nearly 2 1/2 miles on Chestnut Street, runners will pass close by several highly recommended spots for refueling with a great beer. None, perhaps, is more highly acclaimed than Monk's Café.

Monk's Café (264 South 16th Street, 215-545-7005) - If you have stayed the night in a Center City hotel, then you likely already know that you were near one of the city's earliest Belgian beer boosters. They open for brunch at 11:30 a.m. on Sundays when mussels and burgers done at least a half dozen Belgian-style ways (and served accordingly with a side of pomme frites) might be just what you need to sooth your aches and pains. For a palate-awakening, there is probably no better place to drink the eponymous Monk's Café Flemish Sour Ale (a noticeably tart 5.5% ABV private label brown ale brewed for the restaurant by Belgium's Van Steenberge brewery).

Source: Washington Times