George Reilly‘s The Twisted Tail (509 South 2nd Street) will be hosting the Hoodoo Blues Halloween Party on this Saturday from 9PM until 2AM. Admission is $10 but the cover is waived for those in costume. Starting at 9PM, Twisted Tail will take over part of Headhouse Square to present a fire-breathing show from Iconic [...]
Archive for October, 2011
The Twisted Tail Presents: Hoodoo Blues Halloween
Aired October 28th, 2011 on Events and Uncategorized.0 CommentsPhoodie.info And National Mechanics Present Rare Uyghur Cuisine
Aired October 27th, 2011 on Events, Exclusive and Prix Fixe.0 CommentsPatrick Rodgers (you may remember him from this) spent sixteen years in the music industry, traveling all over the world, and it is on a trip to China where he fell in love with Uyghur cuisine. The Uyghur people, who live in the Xinjiang province of China, borrow some of their culinary influence from neighbors [...]
Philly Restaurant Week Pulls In Over $11 Million
Aired October 26th, 2011 on Restaurant Week and Uncategorized.1 CommentAccording to Philadelphia Business Journal, this year’s Fall Restaurant Week generated $11.6 million in spending. Last year’s restaurant week pulled in $11.5 million. In other figures, “194,000 people ate at 119 participating restaurants during the event, which took place in two segments spread over two weeks in September. About two-thirds of the restaurants involved last [...]
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Memorable Meals is a new recurring post here on Phoodie where readers get a chance to express how great, horrible, embarrassing, or whatever else their dining experience was. To share your story, send an email to phoodieinfo[at]gmail[dot]com with the subject header “Memorable Meals.” In this edition, a reader writes of a fantastic meal at Prohibition [...]
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Anthony Bourdain Dislikes The Food Network, Does’t Care Who Knows It
Aired October 24th, 2011 on Uncategorized.2 CommentsAnthony Bourdain has never been one to pull punches, and calling him opinionated would be a massive understatement. One of the biggest targets for his opinions (some would say insults) is anything and everything on The Food Network. Luckily, for all of us, Grub Street New York has compiled Bourdain’s ten best verbal bullets fired [...]
Here at Phoodie, we’re going to be implementing some changes to make the site the best it can be. In the coming weeks, we will be undergoing some slight cosmetic changes, creating some new original content, and introducing new recurring posts. One of those recurring posts we’ll be doing is “Memorable Meals.” Memorable Meals will [...]
Celebrate The End Of A Torturous Work Week At Bar Ferdinand
Aired October 21st, 2011 on Beer, Liquor, Tapas, Uncategorized and Wine.0 CommentsBar Ferdinand (1030 North 2nd Street) understands how hard you work. And sometimes you just want to be appreciated you know, have someone pat you on the back and say “nice job.” Well you won’t get exactly that at Bar Ferdinand on Friday’s but you’ll get something arguably better: a weekly changing selection of beers, [...]
The Greenhouse Project Presents Podcasts On French Culinary History
Aired October 20th, 2011 on French.0 CommentsThe American Philosophical Society Museum‘s Greenhouse Project is presenting, “five distinct but interrelated large-scale programs.” Among a sound installation and a geocaching expedition, is a series of podcasts on the science of gastronomy. Some of the podcast topics include A Revolution in Taste (the revolution and evolution of French cuisine), Enlightenment in a Bottle (the [...]
2010′s Best Of Philly Fro Yo spot, Yogorino, is opening up another Philadelphia location. The highly-acclaimed, back-to-basics frozen yogurt of Yogorino has built a following at the Rittenhouse location (233 S. 20th Street) and this Saturday, a soft-open will be taking place at their new location at 12th & Walnut Streets. Where many yogurt places [...]
