· Utensils haven’t been exciting since the introduction of the Freeloader Fork. Now, get ready for eating to be fun again with the Zing!catapult spoon. It improves your food fighting skills without breaking the necks of all your spoons and makes eating soup very very interesting. [BaronBob/SeriousEats] · For those of you who wonder what [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Phoodie on Location: Opening Night at Parc
Aired July 15th, 2008 on French, Openings, The Once-Over and first look.0 CommentsForget what you know about Stephen Starr, as we did after walking into Parc. Yesterday’s Bastille Day celebration had the perfect postlogue in a trip to the new French Bistro on Rittenhouse Square. Collin Flatt ate his way through a surprisingly affordable meal at the latest in a growing empire. Read it all after the jump.
It was announced yesterday that Belguim’s InBev will be acquiring Anheuser-Busch in a deal worth about $52 billion. Now that Miller, Coors and Bud are all technically “foreign beers” where do we turn for a good old American macro-brew? Turns out one of our first beer crushes, our very own Yuengling, is now one of [...]
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It’s Vintastic! Cape Mentelle Shiraz 2004
Aired July 11th, 2008 on It's Vintastic and Wine.0 CommentsFresh off his trip to Belize, Collin Flatt goes back to what he knows best. Today, he takes Aussie Shiraz to task, and finds a champ.
Food Blob: Don’t You Dare Touch My Peppers
Aired July 10th, 2008 on Food Blob and Uncategorized.0 Comments· It’s been a week since the new gastropub Kite and Key opened up in the Art Museum area and it seems to be getting along just fine. Their menu is meant to compliment their large selection of beer. Sounds good to me [CityPaper]. · From July 28th to Jul 31st, Old City restaurants will [...]
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FROM PHILEBRITY.COM: Surely by now, you’ve seen Wawa‘s Hoagiefest promotion in pretty much everywhere advertising can be consumed. The campaign is eye-grabbing in large part because of the Yellow Submarine-esque artwork, but delve into the Hoagiefest website, and you’ll find a whole bunch of stuff you never thought you wanted. Next thing you know, you’re [...]
“Don’t Worry, Honey, There Will Always Be Ham”: The Food Of Mad Men
Aired July 9th, 2008 on Diets, Drinks, HealthCheck, Junk Food, Phoodies and Superfoods.2 CommentsAMC’s hit show Mad Men will debut its much-anticipated second season in a few weeks. The show, set in 1960 in New York City, centers on advertising Exec Don Draper, and is an amazingly stylized glimpse into the lifestyle of the time. A lifestyle that includes smoking, drinking, cheating, eating lots of butter, oh and [...]
One of the things we’re really proud of at Phoodie is how well our Google Mashup restaurant guide works on iPhones. But one company, Urban Spoon, just took it to a whole other level with their eponymous iPhone app that will debut on Friday, when the new iPhone 3Gs and iPhone 2.0 software comes out. [...]
The Readers Speak: Phoodie.info’s Top 10 Recent Comments
Aired July 9th, 2008 on Phoodies, Readers Write and Uncategorized.0 CommentsLet’s get real for a second. Writing about food can be exhausting work, especially when you aren’t always able to sample the deliciousness you just obsessed about for the past hour (Pierre Robert wine, I still pine for you). But these long hours are made meaningful by your loving and insightful comments. Here are 10 [...]
Phoodie On Location: Belize, Central America
Aired July 8th, 2008 on Beer, Condiment Kingdom, Drinks and Mexican.1 CommentWe sent wine psycho Collin Flatt to Belize in search of the elusive and illegal Viper Rum. That horrifying face tells us he found it, along with a host of other local eats and drinks. More, oh so much more, pics and all, after the jump.
At least it wasn’t when I was there this past year.
