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 [...]
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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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Several readers have reported that The Spice Corner, a 30-year veteran of the Italian Market and self-proclaimed largest spicery in Pennsylvania, is currently closed, displaying a sign that a problem between them and the city led to the closure. It appears that this has been going on for a few months already, and customers are [...]
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This Just In: Have Your Sad Recession Christmas Party Inside The Ghost Of Stephen Starr’s Forgotten Children
Aired October 23rd, 2009 on Closings and Stephen Starr.0 CommentsBecause nothing would say “the future is uncertain and the end is always near” like rubbing elbows with your co-workers at The Restaurant Formerly Known As Tangerine as holiday laughter bellows through the cavernous Starr almost-was. On the other hand, if anybody does wind up booking a party at the late, great Washington Square, please [...]
This adorable wrapping paper and announcement was found on the door of one of our favorite coffee shops of ever, Blue In Green. Longtime owner Mike Baer has skipped off to Seattle with his family and leaves behind a legacy of the best pancakes in Philly, a strong cup of Iced Coffee, and endless stories [...]
Yesterday, the cheese display at the Superfresh at 10th and South spontaneously combusted. The unfortunate fromage met their proverbial match(stick) through a short circuit in the cheese case that started an electrical fire. According to one local message board post we read, the Whole Foods next door benefited from the Superfresh fondu with extra business [...]
Amidst all the new openings in developer Bart Blatstein’s increasingly cuisine heavy portfolio, it looks like we may have a closing on our hands. Swallow, located on Liberties Walk, seems to have closed down once again — even though its most recent all mac-n-cheese menu was notable and lauded, rumors of a permanent vacation for [...]
A reader writes in today regarding Get Happy Pub, the Second & South gastropub that was foolhardy enough to sever itself from the white beast that is the Kildare’s chain:
“Get Happy Pub was a really really great family-owned and operated atmosphere. I’d been a patron of Kildare’s Irish Pub for years and well, I have [...]
