Yes, of course we heard the douchedrums beating for The Franklin Mortgage & Investment Co., the speakeasy/artinisal cocktail joint we told you about set to soft-open tonight in the old Bar Noir space. How could we not? After all, these are Kade-ian times we’re living in, and somewhere along the line, Rittenhouse Square became the [...]
Archive for June, 2009
It’s been a while since we even briefly mentioned our friends over at Dahlak, so we thought we’d just drop in for dinner last weekend and see how things are going. Stepping through the door, the Africa-via-West-Philly décor made us feel right at home on a drizzly evening, and the red light bulbs may have [...]
It’s great living an eco-friendly lifestyle filled with great eco-friendly brands: Whole Foods…TOMS Shoes…Chipotle Mexican Grill? Thanks to last night’s episode of Nightline, we learned that many advantages of the slow food movement quickly have reached the institutional level. Chipotle, the Panera of the fast food burrito world, now shuns corporate pork farms, where pigs [...]
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Readers Cameraphone: A Really Good Bad Pun
Aired June 17th, 2009 on Asian Fusion, Junk Food and Readers Write.1 CommentA reader sent us this shot of a pun-filled Snickers billboard, and we have to confess that we’re not a fan of some of the others (“Respond to a Hungergency”? Could a compound word be more forced?), but we have a soft spot for Mt. Foodji for two reasons: 1) Mt. Fuji’s relationship to a [...]
Rittenhouse Square’s snappy Snackbar is attempting to stand out from that area’s crowded restaurant scene by serving a new pan-European summer menu with everything from pierogies to steak frites. Highlighting new small plate dishes and updated favorites, as well as entrees priced under $22, it sounds worth checking out to us. Some of the noteworthy [...]
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So just how did Jose Garces’ appearance on the Today Show go? In short, he did Philly proud, keeping the focus on the food and not going overboard to promote his book, Latin Evolution. His fish tacos turned out splendidly…so splendidly that they managed to draw in Al Roker from offstage for a little taste-a-roo. [...]
Tastykake Face-Off: Chocolate Cupcake Throw-Down
Aired June 16th, 2009 on Junk Food and Tastykake Face-Off.1 CommentWelcome to today’s installment of Tastykake Face-Off, where Philadelphia’s hometown hero snack product goes up against the competition in a fight for top snack bragging rights. The winner will be carefully selected via analysis of several key criteria discussed below. Today, it’s the battle of the cream-filled chocolate cupcakes, with opposite-colored icing: Chocolate-iced Entenmann’s Enten-mini’s [...]
This Just In: Jose To Share Electrons With Willard Scott
Aired June 15th, 2009 on Uncategorized.0 CommentsSet your Tivos! “Chef Jose Garces, will appear on NBC’s Today Show on Tuesday, June 16 at 8:50 a.m. The 2009 James Beard Award winner for “Best Chef, Mid-Atlantic” will discuss his first cookbook, Latin Evolution, and prepare Halibut Fish Tacos from the book.”
Wegmans Joins Campaign To Save Billfish
Aired June 11th, 2009 on Animal Rights and Seafood.0 CommentsIn our eagerness to consume delicious seafood, it’s easy to get swept up in the rush to sample it all, treating the world’s waterways as an unlimited tasting menu. While this might satisfy our inner food connoisseurs, it has had a devastating effect on the populations of some species, pushing them toward the verge of [...]
Anecdotal reports have been trickling in for a while now that Yuengling, of which a large part of our blood and the whole of the 1990s was made, has successfully colonized the South. No, not Delaware… we’re talking the Deep South. These days, the PA lager is served in Dixieland bars from North Carolina to [...]
