Ticket Stubs: Meal Ticket Weekly Recap, May 9-13

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Ticket Stubs: Meal Ticket Weekly Recap, May 9-13

POSTED: Monday, May 16, 2011, 8:30 AM

Filed Under: Meal Ticket | Ticket Stubs

Monday, May 9

Far From Home, Guapos Tacos, Sweetbox and Buttercream are now in permanent lunchtime rotation at LOVE Park.

SPTR's Scott Schroeder is teaming up with Southwark's Nick Macri to launch a hot dog cart awesome named Scott Dogs.

New local brand Sumo Steaks is opening two locations in North Philly.

Congratulations to Zahav's Michael Solomonov for winning a James Beard Award for Best Chef Mid-Atlantic.

Soft-shell crab tacos, tripe stew, ballpark sausages and many other good eats in Notes from the Weekend.

Tuesday, May 10

NoLibs' newest brunch spot is a cart — La Copine.

A Full Plate is throwing its first-ever chili cook-off this year.

New on South Street: Burger.Org, serving an all-organic lineup of burgers.

Wednesday, May 11

Market Day Canelé now makes ETI-worthy savory tarts.

Little Caesar's, the coelacanth of fast-food pizza, opens a new location (?!) on Girard.

Are you an amateur cook who's good with queso? Then enter The Cheese Experiment cookoff in June.

Foodspotting has launched a bunch of Philly-specific programming.

Thursday, May 12

Adam Erace tests out Chick-fil-A's new sweet potato fries.

Amada rolls out a new Saturday and Sunday brunch menu.

Stephen Starr's Fishtown biergarten Frankford Hall is just about ready to go — check out our photo tour.

Friday, May 13

Check out the frozen mint juleps at Khyber Pass Pub.

Hot Diggity! is the name of a new hot dog joint coming to South Street.

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