Nestled in Port Richmond at 2652 East Somerset, Hinge Cafe is the perfect solution to your hungry-man breakfast and comfort-food craving needs. It may seem like a hike if you don’t already live nearby, but you’ll need to work up your appetite anyway! Swing up Richmond Ave and you’ll be there in no time. Serving [...]
Archive for the 'Breakfast' Category
At Long Last, The Carman’s Country Kitchen Mannequin, Explained
Aired March 29th, 2010 on Breakfast and Phoodies.0 CommentsCourtesy of WQED-Pittsburgh’s Breakfast Special, due to air on PBS this summer.
Distrito To Offer Booze-Heavy Weekend Brunch
Aired February 25th, 2010 on Breakfast, Brunch and Celebrity Chefs.0 CommentsPhilly’s own Iron Chef Jose Garces is opening up his flavorful West Philly Mexican joint Distrito for Weekend Brunch, starting March 6th and 7th. Garces is offering Mexican classics his way, such as Steak and Eggs made with Kobe beef or Torrejas, a French toast dish with berries and cream. Also on offer: Distrito Bloody [...]
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PYT Brunch: Curing Hangovers One Sammich At Time
Aired November 12th, 2009 on Bacon, Breakfast and Brunch.2 CommentsSo our pals at PYT have entered into the Saturday and Sunday bunch game and they’ve come armed with Philly’s obvious cheesesteak-in-waiting: Breffast sammiches. The new brunch menu is inspired by Philly lunch truck cuisine, but as you can tell from the picture, these are no ordinary bacon, egg and cheeses. The menu includes Hatfield [...]
The Way Of The Future: Chefstack Promises 200 Pancakes Per Hour For All Your Pancake-Party Needs
Aired August 12th, 2009 on Breakfast, Gadgets, Pancakes and Tools.1 CommentHoly Pancake Robots!! We kind of can’t believe the Chefstack is real, but apparently, it is. The World’s First Automatic Pancake Machine uses a Teflon conveyor belt to spit out 200 pancakes an hour and form a neat pile of delicious. This little wonder costs $3,500 and is being marketed mainly to convenience stores and large-scale [...]
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The quiet war for the title of “Best Pancakes in Philadelphia” rages on — at least around the Phoodie lunch table — and after much debate, we’ve got the skinny on what we deem the city’s top contenders: Honey’s Sit n’ Eat, 800 N. 4th St., (215) 925-1150: These pancakes are light, soft, and buttery. [...]
This Just In: Bacon Ironically The Antidote For “Wine Flu”
Aired April 29th, 2009 on Animal Rights, Bacon and Breakfast.0 CommentsAny non-vegetarian (not hating) who has ever had a hangover can tell you that bacon is the drinking person’s breakfast meat. Slap that ish between two pieces of bread with an unhatched chicken cooked to your liking, and Poof! (Or, Barf!) Hangover gone! It may clog your arteries or leave you with a few extra [...]
Toast is one of those things that almost everyone likes. You don’t have to love it, but can you think of anyone that truly hates it? That being said, the other side of the spectrum actually does exist: People who LOVE toast. These people take that love to really weird obsessive levels. Wherever you may [...]
Kanella: The 37th Greatest Breakfast In America
Aired February 26th, 2009 on Awards, Breakfast and Greek.3 CommentsEsquire, that fading captain of men’s magazinery, did another one of those list jawns specifically intended to get lots of blogs in “major markets” to link to them. And, guess what: It worked. (It always works.) For what kind of people would we be if we did not share this moment of rejoicing with the [...]
How To: The World Is Your Bagel, You Make The Cream Cheese.
Aired February 18th, 2009 on Breakfast, Cheese and How To.3 CommentsCream cheese and Philadelphia go pudgy hand in pudgy hand, right? Actually according to Kraft Foods’ website, the first cream cheese was made in New York in 1872 by a genius dairyman/glutton named William Lawrence (Never trust a man with two first names unless he makes cream cheese.) It was branded Philadelphia Cream Cheese because [...]
At least it wasn’t when I was there this past year.
