You’ll be able to find The Cornerstone Market’s old digs in a new spot on Frankford and Columbia. Brownstoner reports that Fishtown Jewelers’ owners Tom Vaughn and his wife have purchased the market’s furnishings for a new bread and cheese shop. The store is said to open in about six months. No word on if the ghosts [...]
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Stop, Drop And Make Your Reservation for Starr’s Next Pop-Up With Kanella
Aired July 14th, 2010 on Stephen Starr.0 CommentsMost importantly: Starr’s first pop-up with Talula’s Table sold out in less than two days, so if you want in on the Kanella pop-up, there’s no time to waste. Call 215-592-7787 to make reservations. Now, everything else: Notoriously sexy Kanella chef Konstantinos Pitsillides will be cooking a Levantine dinner for the second pop-up. The Levant [...]
Stephen Starr is at it again. (Or rather, he’s never stopped; satisfaction for the Starr beast is as foreign to him as a bidet is to a NASCAR fan.) One of his latest endeavors is his pop-up restaurant series, where he’ll be taking restaurants from out of town and transplanting them into Philly for a [...]
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Thanks to Stephen Starr, you can now nibble on black truffle popcorn while you wait for Rufus Wainwright (or Passion Pit, or Yo Gabba Gabba, whatever) to come on. Or you can pop some Asian five-spice mixed nuts while you watch Planet Earth live at the Mann. (That is, if you’ve forgiven him. If not, [...]
Phoodie.info Predicts The Future: Forthcoming Claims To Be Made In Future Stephen Starr Press Releases
Aired April 22nd, 2010 on Bad Food Writing and Stephen Starr.11 CommentsWe know, we know: It’s a little petty, but we’re still a little bit miffed about yesterday’s Stephen Starr’s press release claim that, essentially, Philly has never seen a real-deal mixology/high-end cocktail joint when hello, throw a rock around here and you’ll hit one. We went to the Phoodie.info staff counselor in a tizzy (“Again?,” [...]
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Stephen Starr’s Beer Dinner Frenzy Is Unstoppable
Aired March 4th, 2010 on Beer and Stephen Starr.0 CommentsFresh of beer/dinner pairings at The Continental and Parc, the Starr Organization just announced a third beer dinner, this one at Barclay Prime with Brooklyn Brewery’s Garrett Oliver. Sure, this one is the priciest, but it’s also the one that’s closest to our fat-clogged, dark-beer-loving hearts.
Stephen Starr’s Fishtown BierGarten Overwhelmingly Passes Neighborhood Test Of Zoning Meeting Endurance
Aired March 3rd, 2010 on Beer, Openings and Stephen Starr.6 CommentsLast night, the Fishtown Neighborhood Association held a public zoning committee meeting for Stephen Starr’s proposed BierGarten at 1208-1214 Frankford Avenue. Revealed therein were some more details about the project: It’ll be 10k square feet, 6k indoor, 4k outdoor, with the outdoor portion walled in off the street. According to our sources, it went mostly [...]
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 — variously, [...]
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 [...]
Snoopin’ On Stella, Stephen Starr’s New Pizza Joint
Aired September 25th, 2009 on Openings, Pizza, Rumors and Stephen Starr.7 CommentsStella is Stephen Starr’s long-speculated-upon and soon-to-be-opening pizza spot at Second & Lombard (formerly known as Jennifer Weiner’s Cosi). We just happened by, and we noticed a few nice details. Today is training day, apparently — Stella is slated to open on the 29th — and here’s hoping that Starr will insist, like he did [...]
