So what will the happy hour include? A rotating drink special of $3 draughts (starting with Troeg’s Sunshine Pils), daily $5 wine specials, and $6 cocktail specials. And as for the food options? Rotating items may include:

>>>a house-cured Pickle Plate, with everything from cauliflower florets to butter radishes preserved in-house and served alongside house-dried jerky
>>>Bacon Preserved Sardines, marinated with grilled onions, honey and sherry vinegar, then lightly grilled and served in mason jars
>>>Puffed Oyster Cracklins with “Old Bayo,” crunchy dehydrated-and-fried oysters with Old Bay mayonnaise that Chef Cichonski compares to “more addictive Cheetos”
>>>Crispy Chicken “Chomps”, pieces of marinated chicken thighs breaded with spices and fried crispy;
>>>Soy Bourbon Burger, a nine-ounce house-ground sirloin patty with bourbon- and soy-glazed shitake mushrooms, aged Cabot cheddar, smoked pickles and a house-baked black sesame bun. Only 10 of these burgers will be available each day, exclusively during happy hour.

Happy hour dishes will range in price from $6 to $14, and since we know all too well what this dude can do with food, the line starts right behind us.

Ela, 627 S. 3rd St. 267.687.8512.

Vice’s Munchies follows Amis’ Brad Spence for a night, as he and some friends hit up McAndrews’ Paesano’s and Chiang’s Han Dynasty. And Chiang and McAndrews behaved (as much as they could) for the cameras.

Warning: Unless you work for those dudes above, the video is likely NSFW, so plug those headphones in.

Do you need some brunch, but you can’t tear yourself away from the TV? Would you rather watch classic cartoons than episodes of Maury? Then you are in luck: The Trestle Inn is hosting the Saturday Morning Cartoon Brunch every Saturday from 11 AM to 4 PM. The Trestle’s back room will be screening full episodes of vintage cartoons, accompanied by prestine audio and intoxicating drink selections.

This month’s cartoon schedule:

5/5: Josie & The Pussycats/Snorks
5/12: Hong Kong Phooey/Magilla Gorilla
5/19: Shazzam/Pink Panther
5/26: Bugs Bunny/Road Runner

In addition, they’re upgrading drink offers with some themed beverages, like the Foghorn Leghorn (Double strength coffee, Old Crow, agave, cream, egg white), the Fearless Leader (Double strength coffee, vodka, agave, cream, egg white, shaved chocolate), and the Speedy Gonzalez (Double strength coffee, tequila, agave, cream, egg white, Mexican chocolate, cayenne pepper).

And if Saturday is no good for you, these drinks along with an entertaining selection of classic cartoon gems, will all be served up during the Sunday Drag Your Ass Outta Bed Brunch.

The Trestle Inn, 11th & Callowhill, 267.239.0290

Most people celebrate the nation’s independence with fireworks and BBQ. Michael Solomonov isn’t most people. On July 3rd, Solomonov will host Down the Shore 3: Zombie Luau at Zahav. The “unofficial kick-off to Fourth of July festivities” will feature Solomonov and eight other chefs cooking all-you-can-eat food, supplying all-you-can-drink drinks, live music, a photo booth, and zombie face painting.

Solomonov encourages all attendees to, “bust out their best ‘zombie’ or island wear – and plenty of fake blood” for the $75 per person event, which will feature hors d’oeuvres from:

Erin O’Shea of Percy Street Barbecue; Terence Feury of Fork; Pierre Calmels of Bibou; Top Chef’s Jen Carroll; Monica Glass of Fish; John Taus of The Corner; Peter Woolsey of Bistrot La Minette; and Dave Katz of Mémé. And on top of all of that, a pig roast and buffet will be created by Chef Solomonov and his team at Zahav.

In case it wasn’t obvious, this thing is going to sell out. Get your tickets now by calling Zahav at the number below.

Zahav, 237 St. James Place, 215-625-8800

As Gawker points out, either NYT or the foodie scene in Brooklyn (and maybe both) have indeed jumped the shark. Want evidence? One participating chef told the NYT, “I think everybody and their brother knows that food is the new rock ‘n’ roll.” This man doesn’t seem to understand what rock ‘n’ roll means. He continued, “people collect tastes like they’re records,” and everyone in the world groaned at once.

The Times continues, “It can’t be an accident that many of these places and personalities resonate with fresh-out-of-college food hunters who seek transcendence through a Korean taco just as their Generation X forebears once sought it through the Smiths, Run-D.M.C. or Fugazi.” If real life is not like Fugazi, than food is definitely not like Fugazi. And that feeling you have in the pit of your stomach right now? That’s disappointment.

We love food. A lot. In fact, we even write a website about food. But this? This is just silly. Are people going to start saving all of their restaurant receipts? Asking for signed menus? Shouting “ONE MORE COURSE! ONE MORE COURSE!” and cheering when the plates come out? No. Food is food, and rock ‘n’ roll is rock ‘n’ roll. Plus, everyone knows rock ‘n’ roll is dead anyway.

And there is the very beautiful Jennifer Aniston in the new smartwater (all lower-case, we were told) ad campaign, where she is stripped of all life and soul and ends up looking like a RealDoll (Google at your own risk). A quick message to SMARTWATER (we’ll all-caps you if we like): You’re advertising water guys, not some secret serum that reverse ages people but might have the side-effect of making them dead behind the eyes. Just leave her as she is.

Also Jennifer, that is a very dangerous way to drive.

At the re-naming of Harrah’s Chester to Harrah’s Philadelphia, world champion eater Takeru Kobayashi downed a Tony Luke’s 9′ cheesesteak, a cannoli from Varallo, a 10″ Margherita pizza from Caffe Napoli and Macaroni & Cheese from BarleyQue in 1:52 seconds. And that was the single most interesting thing to ever happen inside those walls.

Season 10 premieres Monday, June 4 at 8PM on FOX, and if you think you can take Gordon Ramsay on, and you got your eyes set on Season 11, check this out.

Above is a video document of what went down at Johnny Utah’s on its opening weekend, and RECORD SCRATCH … it’s exactly what we expected (bros, beers, bulls, babes, etc). We did not realize we’d actually be saying something nice about them, but credit where credit is due: Naked Cowboy is a very good Patrick Swayze as Bodhi look-a-like.

Vaya con dios.

Johnny Utah’s, 461 North 3rd Street, (215) 987-5760