Green Eggs Cafe Shuts Down After Being Swarmed By Giant Rats [Now With Video]

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The powers of crowd-sourced journalism struck again last night when passersby on 13th Street peered into Green Eggs Cafe Midtown and witnessed a group of rats eating dinner.

I don’t know about you, but that’s all I needed to see. Never again, @greeneggscafe. twitter.com/ericanardello/… — Erica Nardello (@ericanardello) May 6, 2013

@greeneggscafe Saw a bunch of rats in your front window. So disappointed. It was my fav place in the neighborhood. twitter.com/jennab22/statu… — jenna bachen (@jennab22) May 6, 2013

Green Eggs, Eater Philly reports, has blamed the problem on a broken sewage pipe and is closing indefinitely to fix the problem. Looks like Rittenhouse’s rat problem is creeping eastward.

Updated [11:28 a.m.]: “Big-ass @#%*ing rats.”