Fresh 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.
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Stephen Starr’s Beer Dinner Frenzy Is Unstoppable
Aired March 4th, 2010 on Beer and Stephen Starr.0 CommentsStephen Starr’s Fishtown BierGarten Overwhelmingly Passes Neighborhood Test Of Zoning Meeting Endurance
Aired March 3rd, 2010 on Beer, Openings and Stephen Starr.4 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, [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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Hip To Be SquareBurger
Aired July 15th, 2009 on Burgers, Hot Dogs, Openings and Stephen Starr.5 CommentsThat which you see above is a $15 lunch from the brand spankin’ new SquareBurger, located in Franklin Square on 6th Street.
With it being summer and all, burgers are stealing the limelight, and we must say the Starr Cheeseburger has something to offer, and is going to be a destination for groundchuckobsessives. Very compact and [...]
In between terrorizing Top Chef contestants, fretting over his NY establishments, and colonizing Franklin Square, Stephen Starr has, according to this New York Times article, spent his free moments trekking across the five boroughs in search of valuable spices to bring back to the homeland (“spices” in this case being a metaphor for “ideas”, as [...]
Stephen Starr’s Tent Event: Not Just For Car Buyers And College Grads
Aired May 21st, 2009 on Openings and Stephen Starr.2 CommentsThe Mann Center For Performing Arts and, that’s right you guessed it, Stephen Starr are teaming up to bring concertgoers a top-notch culinary experience. Crescendo is set to open with the first show of the season, June 5th, which happens to be David Byrne.
Crescendo, then, will be Philadelphia’s first tented restaurant and hopefully won’t remind [...]
Update: Franklin Square Finally Moved Upon By Stephen Starr
Aired April 30th, 2009 on Openings, Stephen Starr and Uncategorized.0 CommentsGood news for those of you who want to utilize under-utilized Franklin Square, former (and possibly future, depending on how Depression 2.0 goes) homeless encampment turned children’s playland. Stephen Starr’s temporary food shed is now open!
Our plan once the summer days come back: Hit that square, scarf burgers and gelato, and ride [...]
