With all of the Jose talk around town, we figured we would chat a bit about a guy who just doesn’t get enough of the spotlight: Marc Vetri. ‘Narf. Seriously though, Vetri is a bit polarizing around these parts, evidenced by showing up twice on our listĀ of the best and worst of 2009. First, for [...]
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Diet Vetri Tastes Like The Real Thing
Aired January 18th, 2010 on Celebrity Chefs, Italian and Openings.0 CommentsYou Like-A De Sauce? Bart Blatstein The Proud New (And Old) Owner Of Vino
Aired November 17th, 2009 on Italian and Turnover.1 CommentHas Bart Blatstein ousted Michael Maglio from the Italian spot Vino at the Piazza At Schmidt’s? Word on the street is yes, he has indeed and a phone call to Vino seems to confirm that the new owner is none other than Tower Investments and their former business manager, Antonia Seimion, is now the manager [...]
Fork Weening Philly Off Of Claudio’s Meat Teat
Aired June 3rd, 2009 on Celebrity Chefs, French, Italian, New Menu and Uncategorized.3 CommentsFork Restaurant and Chef Terence Feury are teaming up to rival designer meat purveyors in the Italian Market: They’re serving a charcuterie dish, and they’re doing it all on their own. Feury is curing and smoking all of his meats on site from fresh and local ingredients. We all know that when proud culinarians compete, [...]
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New York Times food writer Harold McGee tackles a question we here at Phoodie have honestly never considered: Why use so much water when boiling pasta? In this time of super sensitivity towards wasting anything, McGee began to ponder all the energy needed to boil quarts of water per pound of pasta, and the water [...]
We’ll admit it, we’ve always been kind of wary about Positano Coast in Old City. It’s a cougar den, which normally we don’t mind, but Cougar Den in Old City doesn’t have the same panache as Rouge. Nevertheless, we’ve just received word that there’s a new menu at the spot, and we have to say [...]
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Collin Flatt visits the second oldest BYOB in the city and finds out how they keep on keepin’ on. Pics and words after the jump.
At least it wasn’t when I was there this past year.
