Stephen Starr is at it again. (Or rather, he’s never stopped; satisfaction for the Starr beast is as foreign to him as a bidet is to a NASCAR fan.) One of his latest endeavors is his pop-up restaurant series, where he’ll be taking restaurants from out of town and transplanting them into Philly for a [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Adam Gertler, former co-owner of the now extinguished The Smoked Joint (does “smoked joints. nobody beats our meat” ring a bell?), runner-up on The Next Food Network Star and former host of FN’s food-industry-behind-the-scenes-type show Will Work for Food, is back again (fourth time’s the charm) for Kid in a Candy Store, a sugar rush [...]
Tria Cafe To Come To University City This Summer
Aired June 22nd, 2010 on Beer, Cheese, Openings and Wine.0 CommentsEncouraging college kids to drink classier, a Tria cafe is opening in University City this summer. The place will be called Biba and will serve 26 different wines by the glass and 10 craft beers, as well as cheese, chocolate and charcuteries. You can find it in the Left Bank apartment building (3131 Walnut St.). [...]
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You can blame your separation anxiety from This Is Why You’re Fat on one of the site’s co-creators, Richard Blakeley (pictured). He recently plead guilty to a harrassment charge against the site’s other creator and his then girlfriend Jessica Amason. Guess that means no TV deal…or at least not the kind that we were expecting. [...]
The Wine School of Philadelphia’s latest installment of Sommelier Smackdown – a monthly culinary competition that pits two wine professionals in a palate v. palate battle of food and wine pairing ability – will feature Christian Garces of Peruvian-Cantonese fusion restaurant Chifa. The Chicago-native started his Philadelphia food career in 2005, joining his brother (and [...]
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In a mash-up of all things manly, Spanish tapas restaurant Bar Ferdinand in Northern Liberties will offer a Steer & Beer dinner on Thursday June 24 featuring meals of Prime Black Angus Beef from Green Meadow Farm in Gap, Pa. and craft beer from River Horse Brewing Co. in Lambertville, N.J. The five-course meal created [...]
Important Chefs Congregated Last Week and You Missed It
Aired June 21st, 2010 on Chefs and French.0 CommentsWhile you were gorging yourself on artfully-named microbrews, scads of esteemed chefs were at Le Bec Fin shedding a tear for the retiring President of the French Culinary Academy, Jean Jacques Deitrich, and probably discussing the merits of red wine reductions. On June 5, the French restaurant hosted members, inductees, and honored guests of the [...]
Team Tiffin Taking The Lead In The Ongoing Tandoori Take-out Wars?
Aired June 21st, 2010 on Indian.1 CommentLet’s face it – a debate among Phoodies in this town over Ekta vs. Tiffin will never end with a decided winner. Maybe not for long, though. Via both Restaurant Club and The Insider, Philly is aflutter about the Tiffin folks’ plans to partner with Dranoff Properties’ 777 South Broad to open a decidedly non-delivery [...]
It looks like come August, Fishtown’s Cornerstone Market will be no more. This video, advertising the property on Girard Ave. and Leopard St. (near Frankford) appeared on YouTube this morning, and totally bummed us out. Onward and upward to the Cornerstone crew, whom we always found to to be super-friendly and helpful. We hope we [...]
Thanks to Stephen Starr, you can now nibble on black truffle popcorn while you wait for Rufus Wainwright (or Passion Pit, or Yo Gabba Gabba, whatever) to come on. Or you can pop some Asian five-spice mixed nuts while you watch Planet Earth live at the Mann. (That is, if you’ve forgiven him. If not, [...]
