At the Rittenhouse Square Bed & Breakfast, your morning coffee will probably come in a cup that matches the saucer. Just don’t expect your china to match anyone else’s in the petite breakfast room in the basement of this petite Center City hotel, a few hundred feet off Rittenhouse Square.
The eclectic place settings were planned that way, as was the variety of furniture in the inn’s 10 guest rooms, with each designed to be different. That is characteristic of many bed-and-breakfast home and inns, which have soared in popularity in Philadelphia and elsewhere in recent years, largely because little about them resembles chain hotels.