“Hello Phoodie, I have a story about Philadelphia Bar & Restaurant. On this past Saturday night, my friends wanted to go somewhere to watch the Denver vs. New England playoff game. Yeah, I must admit, we were caught up in Tebowmania! I have heard great things about PBR and I was able to make a [...]
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Look Alive Over There: Philadelphia Bar & Restaurant, You TOTALLY Did The Right Thing
Aired January 18th, 2012 on Assholery, Gastropubs and Look Alive Over There.6 CommentsLook Alive Over There: South Philly Tap Room
Aired January 11th, 2012 on Gastropubs and Look Alive Over There.13 CommentsResponding to the call for our new post category “Look Alive Over There,” one exasperated reader writes in: “I’d like to submit a LAOT for South Philly Tap Room. I live a block away, so it’s long been my favorite local spot. The place has always had questionable service – staff in general act above [...]
Celebrate Philadelphia Bar & Restaurant’s OktoPBRfest
Aired September 19th, 2011 on Beer, Events and Gastropubs.0 CommentsThroughout the year, we have our fair share of drinking holidays (St. Patty’s Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, 4th of July, Any Saturday, etc.) but few hold as much history as Octoberfest. Octoberfest is a tradition in Munich, Germany that goes back over 200 years (and somehow survived National Lampoon’s European Vacation). The cornerstones of [...]
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Fork & Barrel To Open Gastropub In Center City This Spring.
Aired January 4th, 2011 on Gastropubs and Openings.5 CommentsFork & Barrel just signed a lease for the 5,700 square foot space at 1111-13 Walnut Street. This is exciting news, since we haven’t made it over to their East Falls restaurant yet. This will be their first center city location, according to the brokerage team. There is rumor of 2 more after this. Described [...]
The long awaited City Tap House at the Radian Balcony in University City is finally ready for their debut on May 10th. They will be serving a selection of 60 draught beers along with a menu of American pub fare. The pub also offers open air seating on two terraces with stone fire pits, all [...]
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South Philly’s Devil’s Den has just announced their appointment of new head chef, Alex Urena. Chef Urena came to Philly from New York, where he ran his own restaurant, Pamplona, to be chef de cuisine at Two Liberty’s R2L, but left abruptly before its opening. Some of his honors include: A 2000 James Beard nomination [...]
Phoodie Exclusive: The Who And The What Of Stephen Starr’s Fishtown Bier Garten
Aired January 19th, 2010 on Gastropubs, Openings, Rumors and Stephen Starr.31 CommentsVia Google Street view, the site of Starr’s proposed Bier Garten, which sources say he’d like to open by this summer. We’ve been hearing tell that Stephen Starr has been snooping around Fishtown for a while now, checking out the neighborhood as the possible site for a number of cogs in his ever-growing empire — [...]
It’s The Great Pumpkin, Standard Tap! Plus: Multiplicity!
Aired September 24th, 2009 on Events, Gastropubs, Rumors, The Biz and Uncategorized.0 CommentsAccording to a very handsome bird on our shoulder, The Standard Tap is getting ready to install a twenty-tap system into their bar. The Tap is already known for having a ton of delicious local beers on tap at all times, so goodness knows what lagers and ales will flow out of that new tap [...]
Evan Turney: An American Hero
Aired May 19th, 2009 on Celebrity Chefs, Gastropubs and Openings.3 CommentsLast night marked the soft opening for Varga Bar, where Chef Evan Turney (pictured at right) is at the helm. If you don’t know, you better know, because he has run four — count ‘em, four — kitchens on Spruce Street. The young chef-star was kind enough to sit down with Collin Flatt to talk [...]
