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Jan. 13: National Pastrami Day festivities at Delicatessen

POSTED: Monday, January 10, 2011, 6:06 PM

Filed Under: Contests | Food and Holidays | Food News | Arterial Terrorism

Courtesy of Delicatessen

This Thursday, Jan. 13, celebrate National Pastrami Day at hungry man's palace Delicatessen (703 Chestnut St.), which is launching a multi-pronged wave of house-smoked programming. Apparently, the folks who own Tommy Pastrami, a Southern California deli chain that runs 'strami-eating contests, claim that their pastrami consumers are the most formidable in all the 50 states, so Michael Spector is looking to knock them down a peg by hosting an eat-off of his own. Thusly, Thursday will see the launch of the 24-ounce Big Macher, pictured above. (Just for reference, the typical Delicatessen sandwich features between 7 and 8 ounces of meat.) Finish the Big Macher in 15 minutes or less and you'll qualify for the Jan. 20 finals, which'll see eating a 48-ounce pastrami behemoth known only as The Maccabee. Post the best time in that round, and you'll win a fully catered party for 25 people (in Bubby's living room!), plus a gang of Delicatessen tees. If you're not feeling up to the challenge, you can at least snag a $5 regular person-sized pastrami sandwich between the 13th and 20th, too.

Pastrami-scarfing finals (featuring a CP competitor!) at Delicatessen tonight :: Meal Ticket :: Food Blog :: Philadelphia City Paper

Posted 2011-01-20 16:16:19

[...] Last Monday we told you about the eating contest, to celebrate National Pastrami Day (Jan. 13), at Delicatessen (703 Chestnut St.). Today at 5:30 p.m., the top six fastest eaters who have qualified over the past week will face off in the scarf-off finals. The challenge: a 48-ounce (aka 3-pound) pastrami sandwich known as The Maccabee. Delicatessen owner Michael Spector plans on doling out gratis pastrami and beer for curious onlookers. [...]

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Enter the Khyber Pass Pub's Jan. 29 Beer Chili Cookoff

POSTED: Friday, January 7, 2011, 7:58 PM

Filed Under: Booze | Contests

Do you make a mean-ass beer-based chili? Then you should enter the Third Annual(ish) Beer Chili Cookoff, scheduled for Sat., Jan. 29 at the new-look Khyber Pass Pub (56 S. Second St.).The only stipulations for the competition are that contestants (about 15 are signed up right now; it'll be capped at 22-ish) bring their chili fully prepared, and that beer is implemented as an ingredient. Prizes for winners are TBD, but will be beer-related; the judging panel right now consists of Khyber/Royal Tavern/Cantina chef Mark McKinney and yours truly. The public is welcome to come through and sample all the entries for free. A word on the field: The past two cookoffs have been won by Steve Matt of the just-down-the-block Brownie's, who will be entering again this year. If he threepeats, it's been decided that he'll gracefully retire from competition â which will be renamed the Steve Matt Beer Chili Cookoff. Bring your A Game! If you want to sign up, call the bar at 215-238-5888 or email Jeremy Thomson at morebeer215@gmail.com.

Gene "the grinder" Giuffi

Posted 2011-01-07 22:24:56

Hope that pic is not the winner from last year

miss rachel

Posted 2011-01-07 23:46:27

vegan chili? yes? no? i don't want to get laughed at!

The Bad Reader

Posted 2011-01-09 18:20:35

An ass beer based chilli? Who would make that?

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Re: Philebrity Awards ... THANKS!

POSTED: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 11:06 PM

Filed Under: Contests | Meal Ticket

My cat Riley says THANKS FOR VOTING!

It appears as though I have been chosen as "Phoodie of the Year" in the second annual Philebrity Awards. At the risk of sounding treacly, I just wanted to extend a sincere thanks to anyone who voted. I certainly wasn't expecting to be nominated in the first place, which makes winning all the more surprising and flattering. (That's not to say that CP wasn't guilty of a little promosexual activity!) Anyways, Team Meal Ticket Adam Erace, plus our tireless interns Rachel Burgos, Anthony Sica and Juliana Reyes works super hard on creating original content for this silly little blog, so it's really, really satisfying to hear that y'all enjoy reading it. And an XL shoutout to the other nominees, as well Han Chiang from Han Dynasty, Marc Vetri, Marcie Turney and Valerie Safran, and Kate Carrara from the Buttercream cupcake truck. So thank you once more, and I'll try my damndest to live up to your "Phoodie of the Year" standards, whatever they may be I'll buy you a drink, but I ain't buying you dinner. Cheers, and see y'all!

Laurel Rose

Posted 2010-12-15 13:08:45

riley so dumb. he wishes he could have voted, too.

poncho

Posted 2010-12-15 00:47:38

That cat photo is hilarious!

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Ugly Christmas Sweater Party at For Petes Sake

POSTED: Monday, December 13, 2010, 5:51 PM

Filed Under: Booze | Contests | Food and Holidays

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Break out the red polyester cardigans and reindeer-print vests. Tonight, rollicking red-brick For Pete's Sake Pub (900 S. Front St.) hosts its second annual Ugly Christmas Sweater Party. "Last year we were looking for some fun ideas before the holiday, saw an ugly sweater contest online and said, 'We have to bottle that up and sell it at the bar,'" says GM Mike Mariani, wholl be modeling a very fashionable, foofy, red womens turtleneck" this year. "Its quite sexy."A panel of For Petes staff will vote for the ugliest sweater, and the wearer wins a $50 gift certificate to the Queen Village pub. (Last years victor sported an ensemble Mariani describes as "fluorescent yellow reindeer on crack.") Complimentary egg nog and discounted dranks ($3 wells, $5 wines, $3 Kenzinger, $4 Spaten lager and Allagash White) will flow, and for grub, try out the Twenty Menu, a new special available every Monday and Tuesday night. The consistently slept-on kitchen, maker of one of our favorite salads (apples, pecans, white balsamic vinaigrette) and pulled pork sandwiches in town, does a three-courser of soup get the cream of potato! or salad, entrée and dessert for the less than the price of snowflake-spangled jumper.

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Name Jake's new sandwich, win ... sandwiches

POSTED: Thursday, December 9, 2010, 8:37 PM

Filed Under: Contests

Courtesy of Jake's

Jake's Sandwich Board at 12th and Sansom is looking for name ideas for its latest creation, which is available through Christmas:

We start by slathering brown mustard on the freshly-baked roll and then add layers of fresh sliced, grilled ham and thick slices of Brie. We top it off with our spicy house sriracha-mayo and a panko-breaded and fried, crunchy pineapple on top!

And if they pick yours, you'll win 12 free sandwich cards. Shoot your entry to info@jakessandwichboard.com or post it on their Facebook.

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Posted 2010-12-09 20:21:32

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Drew Lazor nominated for Philebrity's "Phoodie of the Year." Awwww!

POSTED: Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 10:35 PM

Filed Under: Contests | Meal Ticket

Congratulations are in order for our very own Drew Lazor, who has been nominated for "Phoodie of the Year" in the 2010 Philebrity Awards. He has some stiff competition (I'm looking at you, cupcake lady ... ), but am confident that this award was made for someone like him. When he isn't eating food, he is talking about it. When he's not talking about it, he is cooking it. And when he's not cooking it, he is on a quest to find some. Don't let my little puff piece here sway you: I honestly feel he deserves this award. You don't have to tell me who you pick, but you can vote here. Good luck, Drew!

Morty

Posted 2010-12-08 22:49:58

Vote already. He's not exactly in first place!

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Posted 2010-12-13 08:32:47

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Thursday Night Throwdown at Bodhi Coffee tonight

POSTED: Thursday, November 18, 2010, 4:53 PM

Filed Under: Coffee | Contests | Food Events

Photo | Drew Lazor

Philly's roving Thursday Night Throwdown latte art competition, which has been held at Spruce Street Espresso, Chestnut Hill Coffee and Brew in the past, goes down tonight at 7 at one of Team Meal Ticket's favorite cafés, Bodhi Coffee in Headhouse Square (410 S. Second St.). It's $5 to sign up to compete and free to watch; there will be cash prizes, plus swag from the Counter Culture and Stumptown roasters.

Michelle

Posted 2010-11-20 16:03:27

Thanks for the info, Tom!

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Posted 2010-11-18 12:25:36

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Michelle

Posted 2010-11-18 16:06:08

Anyone know what delicious beverage was being made in the pic they tweeted earlier?

Tom

Posted 2010-11-19 00:54:12

Michelle- the photo was one of our baristas making Sangria for everyone, didn't last long.

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Win two tix to Beer School's Nov. 19 Canadian craft beer class

POSTED: Friday, November 12, 2010, 6:55 PM

Filed Under: Booze | Contests | Food Events

Keith Wallace of Philly's Wine School and Beer School wants to give two tickets to an upcoming class away to Meal Ticket readers. The subject of the class, scheduled for next Friday, Nov. 19 at 7:30 p.m. (2008 Fairmount Ave.), is rare microbrews from the Great White North Canada! "The beer scene up north is crazy right now," says Wallace. "Every beer geek should known what is going on." Want a pair of tickets to the class, eh? (They're going for $35+ bucks a pop.) Be the first to email the correct answer to the very easy question below to drew.lazor@citypaper.net. DO NOT LEAVE THE ANSWER AS A COMMENT. Good luck, Canucks!

What movie is the dude in the picture from?

UPDATE [2:13 p.m.]: Congrats to Meal Ticket Gabriel for chiming in with the correct answer that is Steven Wright as a Mountie in the 1995 classic Canadian Bacon. We got ways of making you pronounce the letter O!

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Oct. 28: Thursday Night Throwdown returns to Spruce Street Espresso

POSTED: Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 8:38 PM

Filed Under: Coffee | Contests | Food Events

Photo | Drew Lazor

This Thursday at 7 p.m., Philadelphia's Thursday Night Throwdown latte art contest, aka TnT, returns to Spruce Street Espresso (1101 Spruce St.) Professional and at-home baristas alike are invited to take part in pouring lattes in a tournament-style competition for cash and other prizes, including the Grinder Burr Medal currently held by Aaron Ultimo of Ultimo Coffee, who took first prize in September's TnT at Chestnut Hill Coffee. (That's his handiwork above.) The Throwdown is $5 to enter, but free to watch. There will be pizza from Gianfranco, beer from Philadelphia Brewing Co., and even a costume contest with a $50 prize for the best get-up. Check out our report from July's Throwdown at Spruce Street.

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Win two tickets to Fork's Sept. 29 Sustainable Seafood Dinner

POSTED: Friday, September 24, 2010, 6:48 PM

Filed Under: Chef Salad | Contests | Food Events

Meal Ticket's got its seafood-loving fins on a pair of tickets to next Wednesday's sustainable seafood dinner at Fork (306 Market St.), for which chef Terence Feury is teaming up with the very seafood-savvy Jennifer Carroll of 10 Arts. The $75-a-head dinner, benefiting the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch and the Wetlands Institute of Stone Harbor, will feature the chefs, both alums of Eric Ripert's Le Bernardin, preparing a four-course (plus dessert) tasting. The evening will also feature food writer Paul Greenberg, who's just released Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, a book examining the history of humanity's four most-consumed ocean dwellers (salmon, sea bass, cod and tuna) as well as the global impact of industrial fishing and seafood farming practices. If you want the two tix, simply email the correct answers to the these seafood-y questions to drew.lazor@citypaper.net, subject line: "Fork Dinner." DO NOT LEAVE ANSWERS AS A COMMENT. Good luck! UPDATE [2:15 p.m.]: Congrats to Meal Ticket reader Andy for answering our questions correctly. Answers after the jump.

1. What is the real name of the Chilean sea bass?

2. Complete the names of these oysters: Cape May _____, Naked _____, Mermaid ____, Emerald _____.

3. Translate the following Japanese seafood names into English (be specific): maguro, anago, tako, hotate.

1. Chilean sea bass is its popular name, but the fish's far less sexy official moniker is the Patagonian toothfish. 2. Cape May Salt, Naked Cowboy, Mermaid Strait, Emerald Cove. 3. Maguro = tuna. Anago = salt-water eel. Tako = octopus. Hotate = scallop.

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