EAT THIS IMMEDIATELY: For Pete's Sake's cream of potato soup

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EAT THIS IMMEDIATELY: For Pete's Sake's cream of potato soup

POSTED: Tuesday, January 4, 2011, 3:40 PM

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I can't remember the first time I went to For Pete's Sake Pub (900 S. Front St.), but I do know it was a long time ago, way before gastropub was in the vocab of the everyday Philadelphian, way before it was legal for me to partake in the Queen Village saloon's tightly edited beer list (though I'm sure that didn't stop my fake I.D.-equipped youngin self from trying). And I do know I had their cream of potato soup, which many years later, is still on the menu, and still a personal fave. Dark, drawn-out winters nights like the ones upon us call for â no, command â soups like this. I had it just last week, the cup of creamy potato puree so smoking-hot, spuddy vapor rose from its scallion-strewn surface like ski-resort Jacuzzi, melting a garnish of shredded queso into an orange-yellow web in seconds flat. This liquid loaded baked potato could thaw the Grinch's heart. Eat it immediately, preferably with a pint of Allagash Interlude, a punchy, plummy Merlot- and Syrah-barrel-aged sour making a brief appearance at For Pete's.

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