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Notes from the Weekend: July 3
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Notes from the Weekend: July 3
Notes from the Weekend is a feature that sees the members of Team Meal Ticket compiling all the food/drink highlights uncovered during prime eatin' time, Friday to Sunday. We'd love to hear all about YOUR weekend eating adventures in the comments. Go for it! (View past NFTW installments at citypaper.net/notes.)
Adam Erace: AE
Caroline Russock: CR
Apologies for the lack of NFTW-age on my end the past two weeks. I was on my belated honeymoon IN ITALIA! In lieu of a full recap here are some of my favorite food pics from the trip—AE
Friday saw the final hours of me and C's Italian honeymoon melting away like a cone of gelato. We'd transferred to Munich from Sicily on Thursday, spent the night, and headed to the airport early Friday, where I proceeded to gorge on soft pretzels and German cookies before boarding our flight back to Philly. Eight hours and one microwaved dish of tortellini in blush sauce later, we were back in Philly. After two weeks of a straight pasta/gelato diet, we thought we'd kickstart the detox with sushi for dinner and headed to the new Toyotomi (1704 S. 11th). I'll have more details on Meal Ticket later, but it was pretty decent and very inexpensive. Really liked the lacy seaweed salad with avocado. The choice of artwork (an abstract zebra that looks lifted from Spencer's Gifts circa-1999), not so much.—AE
A full Friday night of running from City Paper HQ to The Academy of Music for a live performance of Radiolab and then up to Johnny Brenda's didn't afford too much down time. A slice of none to memorable pizza may or may not have been involved. What was memorable, however, were a few pints of Free Will Citra Pale Ale enjoyed while taking in a mind blowing set by Japandroids.—CR
Hit the Shore early on Saturday morning, and hit traffic anyway. Starving by the time we got to C's fam's in Cape May, so I fortified myself with a chicken parm sandwich from Primos Hoagies in Rio Grande. After some pool time, rolled meatballs with MIL, who served 'em with al dente spaghetti.—AE
Looks like Adam and I had similar ideas about beaching it up on Saturday. An impromptu trip to AC began with frozen cocktails at the sparkly new Revel (500 Broadwalk) followed by a stop at Mussel Bar. An awesome selection of Belgian beers plus some smoky harissa merguez mussels made for the kind of meal that one doesn't typically associate with casino eats. Next stop was Sammy's Beach Bar (3109 Boardwalk). Yes, as in Hagar. This place bills itself as a non-stop summer party and it did not disappoint. The wildest daytime dance party I've ever experienced. Diabetic shock inducing Rum Runners were sipped out of oversized souvenir glasses. Moving on to the slightly classier digs of the Tropicana, a boat sized cold antipasto platter was demolished at Carmines (1609 Boardwalk) along with a few quartinos of Trebbiano. The night ended up with slots winnings going towards some late night sushi and sashimi and cilantro-lime cocktails at Fin (2831 Boardwalk).
Sunday morning breakfast at the quirky Mel's Waffle House (603 Bayshore Rd.). Couldn't decided between sweet or savory, so I went for both: biscuits with sausage gravy and poached eggs, with a side of strawberry pancakes. So much for detox.—AE
Knowing that the majority of my Sunday would be filled with burgers and beer, I opted for a trip over to Miss Rachel's Pantry (1732 W. Passyunk) for a little vegan lunch action. The unlikely winner of was the Tune Up, a faux tuna salad made from chickpeas served over a bed of cucumber ranch dressed romaine. To combat whatever semblance of healthfulness lunch might have introduced, I headed up to Morgan's Pier (221 N. Columbus Blvd.) and proceeded to enjoy more than my fair share of Watermelon Rickys, a cheeseburger, and an order of sweet-salty Snack Bacon.—CR
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