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Notes from the Weekend: October 15
This weekend Adam headed up to Bedford Springs for a romantic getaway and the rest of Team Meal Ticket headed to New York for meet Guy Fieri, er, rather for the Wine & Food Festival.
Notes from the Weekend: October 15
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
Eating adventures kicked off early this weekend when MT contributer Emily and I headed up to New York for the Food Network Wine & Food Festival. A trafficky megabus trip into the city meant that we had to skip fest kick-off Meatball Madness but that might have been for the best. We ended up scoring spots at San Fran import Mission Chinese for some killer reimagined Sichuan fare. The mapo tofu and kung pow pastrami are the stuff that dreams are made of.—CR
This weekend was my six-month wedding anniversary (thank you, thank you) and the wife surprised me with a getaway to Bedford Springs, PA, an old mineral-spa town nestled in the Allegheny Mountains. It's a three-hour drive so we stopped halfway for breakfast at Jennie's Diner, chrome-plated Lancaster railcar with counter-top jukeboxes, framed portraits of local military and amazing blueberry pancakes an inch thick and as wide as a trucker's hubcaps. The waitress warned me of their size when I ordered a triple stack, but I didn't listen. Silly city boy.—AE
Friday we headed to the Southern Wine and Spirits Trade tasting (read all about it right here) and then stopped for a quick snack at The Kati Roll Company, a mini chain that specializes in what can only be inarticulately described as Indian burritos. Kati Roll Co. folks, if you're reading this please open up shop in Philly immediately! The evening continued on with a karaoke and sushi party hosted by Masaharu Morimoto at the taxidermy-heavy Harvard Club. And yes, there was a Guy Fieri sighting. Details here.—CR
Arrived in Bedford Springs and checked into the Omni, a sprawling resort wearing heritage wallpapers, plush furniture and crackling fireplaces, then headed into town for their weekend-long fall festival. Pop-up tents along the cinnamon-scented main street hawked pumpkin butter, fresh-pressed apple cider, holiday wreaths and lots of Steelers crap. We grabbed a cup of draught root beer and wandered around before returning the hotel for mountain pies, a local treat made by sandwiching apple filling and buttered white bread in a pie iron and thrusting it into a live campfire. Amazing. Philly chefs, someone start making these!—AE
Saturday we headed back to the Grand Tasting hall for more snacks and sips before making our way over to Soho for Tacos & Tequila, an evening of, yes, tacos and tequila hosted by none other than Bobby Flay. We sampled plenty of tacos (more to come later this week on MT) as well as many margaritas and Corona-ritas and had a chance to say hi to Pub & Kitchen's Jonathan Adams who was serving up some killer coffee braised short rib tacos. Post taco haze we headed back over to the Meatpacking district for a meet and greet with all of the Food Network's Iron Chefs. Although taco-induced fullness had set in in a pretty major way we did sample Jose Garces' posole and Marc Forgione's everything smoked salmon with gourgeres.
Sunday was all about sandwiches. There was a Sandwich Show down hosted by Next Food Network Star winner Jeff Mauro a.k.a. The Sandwich King. There were fifteen sandwiches, give or take and we gave it our best effort to sample each and every one. Standouts included the fresh from Maine lobster roll from Luke's Lobster, pork belly from Cambodian sandwich joint Num Pang and an ever so slightly gussied up cheesesteak from Charlie Compagnucci of Blue Bell's Phil's Tavern.
And never one to be scared of a few sandwiches, the day concluded with a sandwich and wine pairing seminar at the International Culinary Center were Food & Wine's Anthony Giglio paired five Italian reds and whites with five petite sandwiches from Sara Jenkins of Porchetta fame.—AE
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