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NOW OPEN: Vernick Food & Drink
On Tuesday, Greg Vernick, his wife Julie and GM Ryan Mulholland opened Vernick Food & Drink (2031 Walnut St.), the well-traveled chef's long-planned solo joint after years cooking all over the world for Jean-Georges Vongerichten.
NOW OPEN: Vernick Food & Drink
On Tuesday, Greg Vernick, his wife Julie and GM Ryan Mulholland opened Vernick Food & Drink (2031 Walnut St.), the well-traveled chef's long-planned solo joint after years cooking all over the world for Jean-Georges Vongerichten and more recently at NYC's Toqueville. See our March 20 post for more background on the concept, food Vernick characterizes as "radically simple" — examples he cooked up for us the other day included his tuna with soy-laced tomato compote, charred spinach and leek toast, whole roasted organic Amish chicken and whole roasted "pocketbook-cut" dorade. Those last three items are a few examples of dishes Vernick is preparing in his Wood Stone oven, which he rocks around 550 degrees in the tucked-away open kitchen of the restaurant's ground floor. There's a chef's counter and room for walk-ins back here; heading back toward the street you've got the bar, featuring beer, wine and cocktail selections curated by Mulholland. Diners with reservations will mostly kick it in the restaurant's bright, clean-lined second-floor dining room.
Opening food and drink menus for Vernick are after the jump (click to enlarge). Right now they're open Tuesday to Sunday from 4:30 to 11.
- barstool scientist
- Booze
- Brew Revue
- Chef Salad
- Closings
- Coffee
- Contests
- Dealage
- Dirty Dishes
- Don't Front
- Eat This Immediately
- Field Trip
- Food and Art
- Food and Holidays
- Food and Movies
- Food and Music
- Food and Politics
- Food and Sports
- Food and Web
- Food Blogs
- Food Books
- Food Events
- Food News
- Food TV
- Gifted
- Happy Hour Hopper
- How-To
- In Print
- Interview
- Meal Ticket
- Menu Time
- Not So Quickfire
- Notes from the Weekend
- On Wheels
- Openings
- Patio Drinking
- Philly Beer Week 2010
- Photos
- Private Chef POV
- Product Placement
- Recipes
- Snack Time
- Stiff Drank
- SUPPER
- Tea
- Testing
- Ticket Stubs
- Top Chef
- Vegan
- Vegetarian
- Video
- Weekly Candy
- Weird Regional Foods
- We're Here to Help
- Where'd We Eat?
- Drew Lazor's Ill-Advised Rant Factory
- Pregame
- Ill-Advised Ranting
- The Week Without Meat
- Philly Beer Week 2009
- Real Big
- Where'd I Eat Last Night?
- Top Chef Masters
- The Good Word
- Next Iron Chef
- Arterial Terrorism
- Food and Radio
