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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
Sources are telling us — and Klein bears out — that Chef’s Market has closed their retail operation on South Street, remodeling the space and will have offices and catering run out of their South Street Location. For more than a year, 65% of the longstanding Phoodie valhalla’s total business was catering; they’d even opened [...]
Worst Rumor Of Ever: Shirt Corner To Become Applebee’s?
Aired January 15th, 2009 on Closings and Rumors.2 CommentsIs God dead? We only mention it because Shirt Corner is closing, ending literally decades of unironic Old City shopping, but also this: Could the venerable Old City location (Third & Market Sts.) be further insulted by the placement of an Applebee’s? Mon dieu, indeed. I mean, think about the kind of asshole who regularly [...]
Brasserie Perrier Closes, Phoodie Staff Admits We Forgot It Was Still Open Anyway
Aired January 5th, 2009 on Closings.6 CommentsPhilebrity and hardcore assface Georges Perrier closed down Brasserie Perrier on New Year’s eve, alerting the staff 15 minutes before the end of their shift. While this may be the right thing to do from a business standpoint, as some restaurants have had pasta machines walk out with scheming employees, that’s quite a holiday gift for people [...]
Scuttlebutt round these parts is laying some sad news on us this morning. Phoodie drinkfave Azul Cantina seems to be closing or re-tooling in the short order. Valanni headman George Anni is apparently purchasing Azul from friend and colleague George Markakis, and will be reimagining the restaurant. We hear that a ten-tap beer system is [...]
