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Notes from the Weekend: December 5
Notes from the Weekend is a Monday feature that sees the members of Team Meal Ticket compiling all the food/drink highlights uncovered during prime eatin' time, Friday to Sunday.
Notes from the Weekend: December 5
Notes from the Weekend is a Monday feature that sees the members of Team Meal Ticket compiling all the food/drink highlights uncovered during prime eatin' time, Friday to Sunday. Consider this a place for good deals, great dishes, wicked cocktails, recipe triumphs (and tragedies), bizarro conversations and more. We're eager to share our notes, but especially excited to read yours.We encourage you to leave notes from YOUR weekend in the comments. Have at it! (View past NFTW installments at citypaper.net/notes.)
Adam Erace: AE
Drew Lazor: DL
Alexandra Weiss: AW
Before we begin, please welcome new Meal Ticket intern Alexandra Weiss to the fray! Proper intros coming soon.
I'm broke as a joke lately and I feel as though I've gained like 28.7 pounds, so I vowed not to eat out this entire weekend. Got off to a great start when I beelined it to the bar at Amada (217-219 Chestnut St.) right after work Friday. I am so stupid. We ate cheese and clams 'n' chorizo and had a few drinks and it cost $90. STOP IT DREW WHAT ARE YOU DOING. So dumb. It was very good, though. Afterward we went to see the lovely Lizzy Janssen's new work hanging at Reward (55 N. Second St.), go see that! —DL
Friday: Apparently, owning a microwave is a privilege and not a right, so the Trader Joe's burritos that had been sitting in my freezer for months took 40 minutes to oven-bake as opposed to 2 minutes to nuke. Something so freezer-burnt doesn't deserve that much time and attention, especially when it's just going to be drowned with alcohol later on. Dessert was boxless cereal, which, upon further investigation, turned out to be Oatmeal Squares. I think the fact that I am not a college student makes this scenario especially depressing. —AW
This weekend, C and I jetted down to Ft. Myers, Florida for a wedding celebration at the picturesque Edison and Ford Winter Estates. Twentieth-century inventor bros Henry Ford and Thomas Edison both spent their cold months down here, and the city has immaculately preserved their bungalows. Scaped with soaring palms, Jurassic fig and banyan trees with roots like fearsome octopods and dozens of varieties of exotic citrus, the properties' neatly clipped lawns slope down to the water, the site of the wedding. While C did her maid-of-honor duties at the rehearsal on Friday, I wandered around, admiring the architecture and stealing kumquats off the trees. What, I was hungry! After the rehearsal, we caravanned it down to the beach, where we boarded the Ft. Myers Princess for a sunset cruise. Drank Absolut Citron and ate meatballs on toothpicks. What, I was hungry! —AE
After Lizzy's opening, was hungry again. The responsible move would've been to go home and eat Cheerios while crying, but since I've already established how fiscally and calorically irresponsible I am, I feel comfortable telling you we ended up at Southwark (701 S. Fourth St.), which was, as always, incredibly fun, warm and welcoming. Please try Nick Macri's porchetta next time you're in — he serves his cold, thin slices topped with a broccoli/pine nut salad. Dopest. —DL
Mandatory Saturday brunch court was held at the Abbaye (637 N. Third St.) A Bloody Mary with every garnish imaginable served as the perfect hair-of-the-dog for a hangover brought on by an ill-advised Friday-night Citywide Special courtesy of El Bar (1356 N. Front St.) and rail whiskey and cola via 700 Club (700 N. Second St.). I ordered Eggs Benedict. We had the best server with the accent who always calls us "senoritas." You can ask someone you don't really know to be your best friend, right? —AW
Saturday morning, C was getting her hair did, so I took a ride to Sanibel Island, about half an hour south of Ft. Myers. Weather was 75 and sunny, and I caught a few hours on deserted, shell-strewn Bowman's Beach before grabbing lunch at The Island Cow. I managed to massacre some stone crab claws, even though the kitchen had put nice notches in their shells for easy picking, and am pretty sure every Floridian there was staring at me in abject horror. Sorry, Myrtle and Herb. I promise to do better next time. —AE
Had dinner at Hikari (Liberties Walk, 1040 N. American St.) Saturday night with a good pal. I walked in and was excited to see that a friend was working. She's the nicest and sent out an avocado salad and edamame for us, as well as some sort of mystery roll. We also had tempura, a spicy scallop roll, a spicy albacore tuna roll and a California roll. Over Confectioner's Angel Cake Sweet Chardonnay, the hot topic of conversation was Andy Milonakis' Twitter. —AW
Saturday afternoon: After a quick work stop at CP HQ, decided to snap a string of cruddy Bloody Marys I've had around town by ordering one at Pub & Kitchen (1946 Lombard St.). They're good there. "Let's have one drink and go home" turned into three drinks each, chicken liver, salmon rillettes, sweetbreads, shrimp and pork belly on a cool slate plate and a bartender-curated smartphone viewing of the trailer for The Grey, a movie about Liam Neeson fist-fighting wolves. It was a great Saturday afternoon. —DL
The wedding and reception was beautiful Saturday night and the weather cooperated nicely for the al fresco ceremony. Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres on the lawn, followed by dinner and dancing under a huge tent right on the water. My favorites were the rice and beans and pernil asado, the groom's Puerto Rican family's recipe. After the party was the after-party, on the rooftop deck of the Hotel Indigo, HQ for most of us wedding guests. We hung there a while, then scooped a white pizza with ricotta at Downtown House of Pizza around the corner. —AE
Sunday: Brunch at our fave Sidecar (2201 Christian St.), where I leaned on my ol' faithful Reuben and tried something new, too: a choco-chip pumpkin bread special. Look out for their second floor (beautiful) to open pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty soon. —DL
Sunday, I went to a friend's place for a "housewarming" photo shoot for Sweet Lemon Magazine. Guests enjoyed food and drink the Sweet Lemon girls made: homemade pretzels, homemade sea salt caramels and dill Havarti and brie with baguette slices. We sipped mulled wine, and, for the bold day drinker, sweet lemon and whiskey cocktails. I wonder if this is how real live adults spend their Sunday afternoons. —AW
Sunday afternoon, took up in Estero, where the bride's parents hosted brunch at their place. Homemade lemon-poppy muffins, mini quiches, roast beef sandwiches and Bloodys helped clear the cobwebs out. Later, we made it to the airport with plenty of time to spare for our 5:30 flight, only to find it delayed until 9:20! Had to make due with a dinner of assorted salty snacks. In the mean time, we WON OUR SURVIVOR POOL with a Jets victory and Southwest offered all delayed passengers a $200 voucher. It turned out to be a very profitable day. When we finally got back to Philly, it was after midnight and we had nothing to eat in the house, so we took a ride to Wawa for soft pretzels, chicken-noodle soup, mac and cheese, chicken fingers and cheesesteaks. We weren't stoned but everyone else there was. —AE
Marky Ramone has his own marinara sauce. That's my whole note. —DL
Friday night was an early trip to the Philadelphia Library to check out a friends Dicken's exhibit. We ventured over to Kite and Key after. Loved their veggie burger, but friends weren't thrilled with their choices. Followed by picking up growlers at Hawthorne's and some classic Dr. Mario Nintendo. Sunday was a quick breakfast at Pure Fare. Their sandwiches are really great.. and don't make you feel like taking a nap.— Jilly B- Jilly B, there are sandwiches out that that don't make you feel like napping? Not sure I believe you. — Drew Lazor
- Two delectable meals to report:
1. Friday night, went to Stateside early and actually snagged a table right away. Can I just say how happy I am that this place exists? It has everything I love -- oysters, fancy cocktails, cheese plates, good veggie sides, desserts that incorporate bacon -- and it's three blocks from my house. No complaints whatsoever; go there immediately.
2. Sunday morning we brunched at Pub & Kitchen. I tried to eat "healthy" so I got a lox/cuke/pickled egg/cream cheese/caper jawn on a pretzel roll, which was excellent, and my main dude ordered bourbon-bacon french toast because !!! and it was !!!.— CarolynH - Hit up Loco Pez in Fishtown. Definitely worth a visit! Had a good pez burrito that was not sickeningly huge and sweet house margarita on the rocks. When it comes down to it, I like my Veracruzana more but highly recommended if you're in the 'hood.— molls to the wall
- Worked all weekend. Seemlessweb needs more interesting options!— bje55
- Grubhub has more options than Seamless.— BarryG
- It was a low key weekened with some good food. Friday we bagged our reservation at Fat Salmon and did take out from there. I recommend the Hako "roll"; it's square and delicious. The Sepia Pleasure is another to check out if you go. Saturday dinner was at my sister's where they brought in sandwiches from Larry's. Being as there's no NBA there were no Sixers sightings, but I had a great cheesesteak hoagie, which is better than the NBA anyway.— Marc Steel
- Oh! I ate Zorba's this weekend with the fam. Spicy feta dip was pretty awesome. We all got lunch platters, whose portions are perfect unless you are a trademark overeater. So even though I loved the meatballs, I had to eat again shortly after.— jreyes
- headed to nyc to celebrate a friend's birthday, and ate like a queen in chinatown on sunday afternoon for less supes cheap. prosperity dumplings: i'll dream of you in my heart. xi'an famous foods' spicy cumin lamb noodles were also bomb.— brooke_everett
- For my birthday weekend, I treated myself to all kinds of delicious meals.
On Friday I ate at Sumo Sushi, which I think is one of the best moderately price sushi spots in town. I love that, if requested, they'll make all their rolls with brown rice. And the juicy Naruto Roll — wrapped in cucumber instead of rice — visits me in my favorite dreams. The owner could be a little less pushy, though!
My weekend highlight was a romantic dinner with my sweetie at Farm and Fisherman in Wash West. To begin, we feasted on a fall vegetable salad — complete with three different kinds of cauliflower (who knew!?!), a creamy porridge-type dish with black quinoa and a pork/pasta app that came compliments of the chef. For our main courses, I had the most succulent plate of pork loin I've ever eaten and the boo had lobster that he gobbled so fast that I couldn't get a bite in. It was a fab night. Go there!
Sunday we picked up a piece of organic king salmon from Johnny Yi Fish Market in the Reading Terminal. I haven't found a better place to get fresh fish in the city.
Food! Yea!— josh.middleton
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