For all of you avid brunch-goers, Garces Trading Company does a weekend brunch (from 11am to 2:30pm) as of now. One option is to go for the $25 prix fixe menu, which includes 3 courses and a refreshing, booze-free beverage. Potential combinations include Fresh Summer Melon with mint labneh and spiced pecans, Blueberry Muffin French [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Garces Doing A Mean Brunch And A Meaner Dinner
Aired June 29th, 2010 on Beer, Brunch, Celebrity Chefs, Events and Jose Garces.0 CommentsService Industry Workers Unite to Complain About Their Jobs
Aired June 29th, 2010 on Animal Rights.0 CommentsDo you hate your service industry job and need a place to vent your complaints, affirm (or in some cases disprove) that they are actually complaint-worthy and/or read about how much worse other people’s jobs are than yours? Well then, Sketchjob’s Restau-RANT is the online forum for you. The ground rules: Posts must be associated [...]
Mémé – the Fitler Square restaurant named for owner David Katz’s Moroccan grandmother – is adding to its homey appeal (and existing prix fixe menu) by introducing “Sunday Dinners.” The $37 three-course meal starts off with grilled bread with various types of spread and comes with a bottle of red or white wine. Because the [...]
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Paula Deen’s nationwide cooking contest “The Real Women of Philadelphia” ends this week with a final live event in Savannah, Ga. that y’all Deen disciples can watch online on June 30 at 8 p.m. (or if you were really devoted, you already ordered tickets to join her in-person at the sold-out Lucas Theatre in Savannah). [...]
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Mrs. Tootsie’s Server’s Manual Contains Words All Servers Should Live By
Aired June 24th, 2010 on Phoodies.0 CommentsA reader sends us this snap of a page from a server’s manual he found laying in the street. By the Keven Parker namecheck at the top, we can only surmise that it’s from someone who did or did not make the cut at Ms. Tootsie’s, Parker’s soul food joint at 13th & South. While [...]
July’s bringing us two weeks of three course dinners all over West Philly, courtesy of University City Dining Days. From July 15 to July 29, 29 restaurants will be offering prix-fixe dinners for $15, $25 and $30 (gratuity and tax not included). Here’s your chance to try the swanky food at the new City Tap [...]
And now, the latest from the 85th greatest hard rock band of all time, WhiteSnake: A wine for all your hot tub jolly needs. The marketing can’t be beat: “It’s a bodacious, cheeky little wine, filled to the brim with the spicy essence of sexy, slippery Snakeyness … I recommend it to complement any & [...]
fish. – the bigger, “grammatically awkward” Center City relative of BYO restaurant Little Fish in South Philly that frustrates copy editors everywhere with its capitalization deficiency and unnecessary punctuation – will host a classic summer seafood wine dinner on Tuesday June 22 with seatings at 6:00 and 8:30 p.m. Chef Mike Stollenwerk’s ode to summer [...]
Once a wintery, old-country-man-in-a-vintage-photograph kind of fabric, tweed is getting a new flavor: A little more cityfied, a little younger, fresher, and all in the form of the latest restaurant from Edward Bianchini (last seen on the French Riviera running the now-closed Michelin-starred Hotel Les Muscadins), Tweed. The restaurant, which opened earlier this month, is [...]
