About a week ago, we got an email for a reader asking if we knew why the Fine Wine & Good Spirits store on 41st and Market had closed, apparently for good, on the 14th. According to the Daily Pennsylvanian, the location was closed due to, “issues with the landlord and the physical site.” A [...]
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University City Wine & Spirits Closed Due To Landlord Issues
Aired January 25th, 2012 on Closings and Liquor.1 CommentFrom Old City Cheese Shop Comes Wedge + Fig
Aired May 10th, 2011 on Closings, Lunch and Openings.0 CommentsFrom the closure of Old City Cheese Shop (much-beloved to us, btw) and Flying Monkey Patisserie comes new life. Naked Philly reports the Old City Cheese Shop (160 North Third Street) will be re-christened Wedge + Fig. The new cheese and sandwich eatery, run by married couple Kirk Nelson and Lisa Ruff, along with former [...]
Ochs Bolts Reading Terminal For Manayunk
Aired May 9th, 2011 on Closings, Locavore and Openings.1 CommentHarry Ochs Prime Meats, a merchant at Reading Terminal Market for 105 years, left the Market on May 2nd. According to the Philadelphia Business Journal, relations with the managers of Reading Terminal Market had become strained. (Shades of the Rick’s Steaks kerfuffle here?) Nick Ochs, third-generation owner of Harry Ochs Prime Meats, told the Journal, [...]
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Sympathy For The Swift Half, But Whither The Ghost Of Mary?
Aired January 3rd, 2011 on Closings and Drinks.2 CommentsHas the Ghost ghosted? On New Year’s Eve, The Swift Half — the Piazza-located sister bar of the popular Good Dog — closed its doors for good. (Phoodies take note, though: Music booking impresario Bryan Dilworth has already taken over the lease on the location, and will be debuting a new concept in the space [...]
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The Spaghetti Warehouse at 1026 Spring Garden St has been around for 20 years (really?!?), serving mass quantities of carbs and tomatoe sauce at cheap prices to church groups, PGW workers, and those waiting for judges at traffic court. 50 people will be losing their jobs two weeks before Christmas, as the restaurant will be [...]
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 [...]
In The End, Not Even Gordon Ramsay Could Save Hot Potato
Aired June 10th, 2010 on Closings.0 CommentsAnd so it is, up for sale on Craigslist like an old printer or a dusty, out-of-tune piano. Sigh. While it’s hard to say we didn’t see this coming for Fishtown’s Hot Potato — the potato-themed restaurant that used frozen potato skins until Gordon told them that this was not, in fact, acceptable — it’s [...]
Was The Anderson Cooper 60 Minutes Segment On Chef Jose Andres The Death Knell For Molecular Gastronomy?
Aired May 4th, 2010 on Celebrity Chefs, Closings and Trends.1 CommentIn case you didn’t catch it on Sunday night, here’s Anderson Cooper bowing at the altar Chef Jose Andres on 60 Minutes. While we admit we do like the sight of smoke coming out of Anderson’s nostrils, the piece overall confirmed some things we’ve been thinking about this whole molecular gastronomy thing for a long [...]
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