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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: T.I., Meek and Miley at Sigma, Tongue and Turkey at Fette Sau, Ho Ho Ho.
This holiday season, you're going to drink and eat, hard and heartily.
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: T.I., Meek and Miley at Sigma, Tongue and Turkey at Fette Sau, Ho Ho Ho.
This holiday season, you’re going to drink and eat, hard and heartily. You gosh-damn gluttons are going to do so until yer heads spin Linda-Blair-stylee. Two food things are most titillating this week. The first is Fette Sau, Stephen Starr’s recently opened rootsy-chic barbecue collaboration with Joe Carroll of the NYC Fette Saus. This smoked meat salon on Frankford Avenue, managed by longtime Starr Restaurants stalwart Greg Root has unending supply of scrumptious Duroc St. Louis ribs and pork belly, Nicolosi hot Italian sausage and black angus brisket and bone-in short ribs to go with its New Yawk famous Guss’ brand half sour pickles and sauerkraut. But like during the Thanksgiving holidays, Fette Sau has been brining and smoking tongue and turkey, separately that is. So pleased was I with the t-n-t combo, I nearly wore a gobbler as a hat and the tongue as a tie. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.
Next up, the Trestle Inn has served food since it started, ambitious stuff like tasty bone marrow nibbles for a PG-rated go-go dancing Eraserhood hang. Now though, under the auspices of GM-turned-chef Alex Bokulich (once in the employ of DiBruno’s Ninth Street cheeserie), the Trestle is looking to find a way to keep their menu erudite while making sure it appeals to bar-snacking habitués and boozy late-night eaters. With that, they’ve heightened their small plates to include garlic aioli deviled eggs, smooth-as-silk-but-spicy-as-all-get-out chili and a soft cheese selection inspired by Bokulich’s time in the Italian Market.
Green guy Nic Esposito just got a Plan Philly.com feature for his up-n-coming community crafting self-publishing house at Frankford and Norris, The Head & The Hand.
That long discussed DiBruno Bros. book — oddly enough a coffee table book about cheese, House of Cheese: A Guide to Wedges, Recipes, and Pairings by Tenaya Darlington — is due out this coming May states its publisher, Running Press. Ask Emilio Mignucci about it while you’re in the Christmas holiday line at the Ninth Street store.
It can’t be feeling like the holidays at NBC 10 as of late. After TPTB refused to pick up the option on anchorman Tim Lake several weeks ago, the same thing happened to anchor-ess Dawn Timmeney. Twelve years in and no pick up when her contract expired. Interested parties should contact NBC 10 news director/cold fish Anzio Williams.
Montreal-born chef Marco DeCotiis is all about Canadian comfort food. Like Quebec Toutier. Before you yell WTF hockey puck, you might want to check out Noir on the 1900 block of East Passyunk. Noir is where the one-time Foggia employee (working for his brother Frank DeCotiis at 2400 Lombard) and executive chef at South La Stanza (from 1998 through 2007) currently works his chilly magic on dishes like the pot-pie of ground pork, veal and beef with celery, onions, cloves, cinnamon, allspice, anise, cumin and fennel seed inside puff pastry (LE TOUTIER!), sausage poutine, lot of cherry vodka drinks and other magical Canadian things. Look for DeCotiis’ New Year’s Eve lobster tasting and Mummers Parade Brunch for the holiday.
611 boss Nigel Richards, his Luxe Life and DJ Life apparel line and bits of his 2013 spring collection will pop up at 225 S. 18th St, Unit 103 (enter behind Parc), Dec. 20-30. Ask him about married life. S’good, I hear.
When Rex 1516 on South Street opened, we met executive chef, Regis Jansen, a gentle soul and a swell Southern cook. Sad news has it that he’s left 1516 as he’s waging a war against Cystic Fibrosis. We wish him the very best and blessings in his battle. Sous chef Justin Swain has a lot to live up to.
WHOWHATWHERE: Looks like Sigma Sound on North 12th has been one busy holiday hot spot. Last night T.I. — reality star, rapper — showed up for an “album playback experience” for his new CD, Trouble Man: Heavy is the Head, co-sponsored by Ciroc vodka and Monster Cables (?!). T.I. went into a long rant about the haters who dissed his last several years of work and prison service before nestling in the VIP area with his lady Tameka “Tiny” Cottle, a local gent he once had signed to his Grand Hustle label — Philly’s own Meek Mill — and producer Pop Wansel (son of Dexter Wansel, whose Life on Mars was recorded for Philly International in that very space). The night previous to T.I.’s gig, Mills held a show in the same Sigma studio party space with a special visiting dignitary in the house: Miley Cyrus. After starting her recording process this summer at MilkBoy Studios with Oren Yoel (of Asher Roth fame) and Stacey Barthe (Rihanna, Britney Spears), Cyrus hit up Sigma and the young producer Wansel for additional recording on her new album. According to Miley sites like this and this, Wansel and Cyrus announced their collaboration in August. Miley fans know everything. On Tuesday, Cyrus was at Sigma while her man Liam Hemsworth was around the corner filming Paranoia on 12th Street between Chestnut and Market at Lowe’s Hotel. Before that, last weekend, Hemsworth and the Paranoia crew surrounded El Bar in Fishtown like a warm shroud as well as the area around Arch Street’s Science Leadership Academy. We hear a Four Seasons shoot was the last shot. Philly’s Vivian Green visited WDAS’s iHeart Radio Performance Theater in Bala to talk up her not-so-long-ago-released new album The Green Room when, whoosh, local rap attacker Freeway stopped by. For her 10th exhibition of the year, Bridgette Mayer and her Washington Square gallery welcomed Tyler MFA grad Arden Bendler Browning’s first solo show of grand scale abstractions, Google Earth distillations and other wonders. The show includes a Bendler Browning first: a wall-sized interactive digital video-work that used motion capture technology to determine paint strokes that when projected creates a constantly evolving, colorfully layered digital image. The show runs through January, 2013. The Insider at Philly.com clues into the fact that representatives from the StarChefs food industry rag have been in Philly stalking local culinary “Rising Stars” from Verick, Le Virtu, Will, Le Bec Fin, Sbraga, R2L and a.kitchen, Square 1682. Hopefully, they’ll tip too. Gently quirky soul-ster KEM met with the doyenne of radio promotions Loraine Ballard Morrill while visiting WDAS this week. Speaking of radio, while WMGK’s John DeBella welcomed old pals Michael Tearson, Peter DelloBuono, Ray Koob, Tommy Conwell, Dallyn Pavey and David Uosikkinen to his swanky DeBella DeBall at Vie the other night, WMMR jock Jacky BamBam acted as Mystery Reader for the third grade class at Media, PA.’s Indian Lake Elementary School. “I read a book on Jimi Hendrix, let them ask me any question they wanted, gave them WMMR stickers and photos of me,” says BamBam. “God bless those kids.”
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