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Notes from the Weekend: July 30
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.)
Notes from the Weekend: July 30
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
My weekend really started Thursday with a blow-out feast at Zahav (237 Saint James Place). Mike Solo served up amazing plate after amazing plate, some of them comforting (sweetbread schnitzel, roasted zucchini with white anchovy), other exhilarating (duck heart with gooseberries and cippolini onion rings), all incredibly soulful and well-executed. The resounding favorite, grilled halloumi, featured a new prep on the cubes of the salty, gooey, caramelized cheese; Solo tosses them with local corn and almonds and piles the mix over a permission puree of peaches and amba, an Iraqi pickled mango condiment. That and a dozen more small plates and kebabs followed, leaving little room for the massive lamb shoulder braised in pomegranate. It was too big to finish, but worry not. The extras are going into Doggybag Redux later this week.—AE
My weekend kicked off with a no-cook (read: hello, lazy Friday) dinner of Poconos-local Calkins Creamery Vampire Slayer, a cheddar with some serious garlic, onion, and paprika, a smooth wedge of Daisy, a bowl of cherries and a several glasses of Bardolino.—CR
Considering Thursday's Israeli bender we decided to keep it light on Friday: Santucci's (901 S. 10th St.)! Uncle Joe's stromboli, pizza with long hots (extra fiery this time) and our beloved Granny Smith apple/bibb lettuce salad with blue cheese, pickled red onion, celery and creamy cider vinaigrette.—AE
Saturday morning saw a ragu of corn, Tuscan kale, and tomatoes topped off with a runny poached egg, a shower of Parmigiano and a drizzle of why-the-hell-not truffle oil from DiBruno's.—CR
Come dinnertime, I headed over to Cook for an evening of hot dog revelry courtesy of hometown hop doggers Hawk Krall and Keith Garebedian of Hot Diggity. The two curated a regional menu of five over the top dogs paired with home brewed sodas. The night kicked off with an all veal German dog topped with pickled red cabbage and cucumber-loveage soda. Next up was a Detroit Coney crowned with beef heart chili served alongside ginger ale sweetened with sugar plums. A paired down Chicago dog was wrapped with fries and set out with a root beer-cola hybrid. An Italian dog was a nod to North Jersey, tucked into pizza bread with fried potatoes, peppers, and onions. Last up was a game changing Seattle dog finished with a squirt of cream cheese and Coca-Cola caramelized onions and dragon fruit soda . Needless to say the evening ended with most folks plunging deep into a encased meats coma.—CR
Ordered breakfast in from Brunics (2000 South 17th St.) Saturday morning. Need to do this more often. The Newbold luncheonette DELIVERS! Within 20 minutes of calling a sweet little hiya-hon lady showed up at our door with clamshells full of steaming, super-thick cream chipped beef, sunny-side ups (yolk still runny!), toast and home fries. All for $20 with tip. Booya.—AE
Hit the Shore Sunday morning and took advantage of the cool, beautiful Cape May weather with breakfast on the back porch of the new-this-year Red Store (500 Cape May Ave.). Renovated by Jersey fixtures Lucas Manteca and Deanna Ebner (remember them from Hoof + Fin?), the market/bakery/cafe does farm-forward, from-scratch breakfast and lunch fare seven days a week. Really charming. Really sick pancakes with corn, crab and bacon.—AE
Although it would have been wise to counter Saturday night's hot dog bacchanal with a vegan or at least vegetable-heavy sunday, the Cantina (1651 E. Passyunk Ave.) beckoned with margaritas a chips. A pitcher of white peach margaritas and a plate of pork adobo tacos with mango salsa was rounded out with a salad of watercress, avocado, orange and jicama.—CR
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