On Tuesday, March 17, Chefs Corbin Evans and Joe Lakavage will be reuniting with their former Lilie’s partner, Mémé chef, and 2008 Phoodies winner David Katz for a one-night-only dinner spectacular. The three chefs will be collaborating for two seatings, one at 6pm and the other at 8:30pm. Each is limited to thirty people and [...]
Archive for February, 2009
You know how, when you go to Wegmans and you meander around the aisles and you get hungry and think, “Man, I wish I could just eat right now,” and then you realize that Wegmans has restaurants in it and you lumber over to them, defeated and in shame? Now you can drown that shame [...]
Dept. Of Grossouts/Regional Cuisine: The Tea
Aired February 24th, 2009 on HealthCheck, In The Burbs, Junk Food and Phoodies.2 CommentsGather round young ones, it’s story-time. I come from a land called Lancaster County, and although there are many novelty foods (please refer to Whoopie Pies and Ham Loaf) Turkey Hill Ice Tea holds a special place in every Lancaster County heart, and kidneys. You may thinking smoking crack or cigarettes are bad for you, [...]
ADVERTISEMENT
We were debating on whether or not to post anything about the bullshit Amateur Night II we all suffer through while the Philistines rock hard with devil horns hanging off the deck of Fat Tuesday’s on South Street, yelling at your 12-year-old sister to flash her boobs so they can throw beads bought at the [...]
Oh, Twitter. You have given us so, so many Twitter people to follow! Characters such as Stoya, Foodimentary and even PeekAboobStrips. And then you gave us Unbreaded, the project of Twitter fanatic Kessler (and yes we mean fanatic, just check out his stats). Unbreaded is a blog that “is passionate about exploring the craft of [...]
ADVERTISEMENT
Sources are telling us — and Klein bears out — that Chef’s Market has closed their retail operation on South Street, remodeling the space and will have offices and catering run out of their South Street Location. For more than a year, 65% of the longstanding Phoodie valhalla’s total business was catering; they’d even opened [...]
Readers Write: “Why Does Philly Suck At Bagels?”
Aired February 23rd, 2009 on Uncategorized.30 CommentsThis post was inspired by a Phoodie reader who, after reading this post, wrote us saying, “I have lived here all my life and have yet to find a bagel that I really like.. besides maybe Metropolitan Bakery, but that doesn’t really count.” This topic has been thrown around before, but it is time to [...]
Jose Garces’ latest effort is more than Peruvian and Cantonese fusion. Chifa offers an intimate and relaxed setting delivering comfort food of the highest quality. Collin Flatt took the trip, ate the food, and shares the story after the jump.
And Now, Your Spring Training/Valentine’s Gift, A Few Days Late
Aired February 19th, 2009 on Sweets.0 CommentsSweets By Zoe’s Chase Utley cookie. If we may paraphase Chase: It’s really fucking delicious. [fat tip to 700 Level]
Rachael Ray On Barclay Prime: “HOW GOOD IS THAT?”
Aired February 19th, 2009 on Phoodies, Props Is Due, Steak and Stephen Starr.3 CommentsHI GUYYYYYYSSS! My new magazine is totally, like, the bomb-diggity! So, apparently, someone gave noted Phoodie anti-Christ/obvious terrorist Rachael Ray a magazine. We don’t know when this happened or what series of horrible, inhumane events had to take place in order for it to happen, but now she thinks she can publish things about real [...]
