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Food Events
Tomorrow night, chef Jason Cichonski and Art in the Age will be hosting a "spirited dinner" at Ela (637 S. Third St.). The menu comprises five courses, each matched with a cocktail featuring one of three AITA liquors, ROOT, SNAP and RHUBY.
"I sat down and read the ingredient list on each of the liquors, then figured out what flavors would work well with those ingredients," Cichonski says of the method behind his multi-course madness. He's playing with all sorts of components, from foie gras (served as "carpaccio" with baby Spanish octopus and paired with a SNAP/ginger beer drink) to smoked bone marrow (accompanying a beef shank and smoked ROOT drink). Full menu after the jump. The meal runs $65 per person and there are a few seats left; reservations can be made by calling Ela at 267-687-8512.
Amis (412 S. 13th St.) had to push its first-Monday Industry Night back a week for March, giving the Belgian-beer mafiosi who staff Monk's, Fergie's and Belgian Café ample time to navigate their cellars and blow dust off the good stuff. We hear Monk's capo Tom Peters will be showing up this Monday, March 12 with a cache of large-format bottles of who-knows-what, complementing Dock Street drafts, Sly Fox cans, Italian large-formats via Alla Spina and the "Red Velvet," a beer cocktail combining Monk's Sour Ale, San Pellegrino Chinotto and creme de violette.
Freshly renovated Pumpkin (1713 South St.), which has been enjoying plenty of praise since chef Christopher Kearse came on board, earned got a Slow Food Snail of Approval, an honor reserved for restaurants and individuals who contribute heavily the food sustainability of the region. To celebrate the success, Kearse and owners Ian Moroney and Hillary Bor are teaming up with the crews at Stateside, Fond and Lacroix for a five-course dinner on Monday, March 26. Each chef will prepare one course, and all proceeds benefit our local Slow Food chapter. The dinner is $125 per person including tax, tip and wine. Stay tuned to Meal Ticket for the menu.
The weather is slowly getting warmer, and we all know what that means: shad. (Just us?) As a restaurant precursor to the fourth annual Fishtown Shad Fest (to be held April 28), Oyster House (1516 Sansom St.) is hosting what they're calling Shad Week ("kinda like Shark Week, but totally different"). For those who've never sampled what some refer to as "poor man's salmon," shad is an oily critter from the herring family. Its roe is considered a delicacy and is usually cooked in the egg sac. From March 12 to 17, Oyster House will be offering a three-course shad tasting menu for $40 per person in honor of the fish that gave Fishtown its name. Details after the jump.
Chances are the date March 9 doesn't hold broad significance to you. That's why Harry Baker wants you to take off work and come marathon-drinking with him to commemorate the passing of one of America's most treasured alcoholics.
Eighteen years ago Friday, Charles Bukowski succumbed to cancer after decades of rakish existence, during which the Angeleno writer cranked out countless stanzas, chapters and paragraphs. Most all of those words were spurred into a gallop by Bukowski's meticulously documented drinking, as vital a part of the writer's mythology as any turn of phrase. "He wrote his own legend," says Baker, a poet, rugby player and former bartender. (Fittingly, we first met Baker, in his third year of organizing Bukowski death-day tributes, over rocks glasses at The Khyber.)
To commemorate Buk's passing, Baker, who now makes his rent working for SEPTA and coaching high-school tennis, has organized a series of events at bars throughout the city. His Occupy Barstools plan capitalizes on the strength-in-numbers strategies of that protest movement with an honest purpose: getting loaded, the most populist of all playing-hooky persuasions.
This coming Saturday, March 10, the team at 1 Shot Coffee (217 W. George St.) is hosting a Buffalo Trace pop-up bar in honor of the launch of Vivo Chocolate Co. Created by nutritionist Juliet Burgh and her husband, Vivo specializes in handcrafted raw chocolates. In its raw, unroasted form, it is very high in antioxidants, vitamin C, magnesium, iron, fiber and Omega-6 fatty acids. It also balances hormones and is good for weight loss. "It's an amazing thing, getting so much nutrition from one fruit — and it really is a fruit," says Burgh of her specialty.
Attention, beer geeks, attention: Iacopo Lenci, mutton-chopped brewmaster of Tuscany's Birrifico Bruton, is in town. Part of Italy's new beer guard gaining global attention, Bruton brews will be flowing tomorrow (love their Lilith ale) at a.kitchen (135 S. 18th St.), and Lenci will be in the house to chat about them. Chef Bryan Sikora has come up with three vegetable, three fish, three meat and two dessert dishes, priced $8 to $19, to support the Italian drafts (all $6). You can order a la carte or get a four-course tasting with beer for $65. We’ve got out eye on the Dieci, a potent barleywine paired with chocolate panna cotta and pomegranate semifreddo. Check out the full menu after the jump and call 215-825-7030 for reservations.
South Philly natives Joey and Lou Campanaro — J's got Little Owl, Market Table and Kenmare in NYC, while L holds down our Village Belle (757 S. Front St.) in Queen Village — will appear on Food Network's Iron Chef America this weekend, taking on Iron Chef Marc Forgione and his cooking hermano, Bryan, in a TBD-themed battle. The episode will first air this Sunday, March 4, at 10 p.m., and the Belle's hosting a happy hour-style viewing party during a re-air next Saturday, March 10, at 5 p.m. We imagine it will be replete with delicious little Campanaro meatballs.
Do-gooder group Philly Stake (we told you about them last year) is up to its philanthropic, food-lovin' ways again with its latest nomadic dinner party planned for Sunday, March 2 at the First Unitarian Church (2125 Chestnut St.). Menu should be sured up by mid-month, when half the $10-to-$20 tickets will go on sale online. (The rest will be available at the door.) Guests will hear proposals from various individuals and community groups, and after a vote at the end of the meal, one of the projects earns the proceeds from the event. Cool, right? Grant awardees from November's Philly Stake include Sink or Swim Philadelphia, a web-donor fund for uninsured/underinsured Philadelphians; and Girls Rock Philly Library, a multimedia library focused on empowering women through music.
Have a worthy project that needs funding? Stake is accepting proposals from March 4 to 11. (Get details on their website.) You can also try for individual grants for creative endeavors at the new Small Stakes, a mini version of Philly Stake starting this Saturday, March 3 at Shot Tower Coffee (542 Christian St.). It goes down from 7 to 9 p.m., and the $10-to-$20 sliding-scale tickets can be purchased at the café.
The crew at Northern Liberties' Random Tea Room (713 N. Fourth St.) is throwing a party this coming Thursday, March 1 in honor of their four-year anniversary. Owner Becky Goldschmidt will be pouring tea-infused cocktails and passing around some sample bites of their upcoming menu. "We do offer some food now, like muffins and fruit, but we're expanding the menu to something more substantial," says Tea Room herbalist Danielle Dwyer. The specifics of the food and drink will remain a secret until it's party time, but we do know there is a cocktail that will feature their housemade chai. The space is small, so they're opening up the back yard for guests to mingle and warm up around a bonfire. Food and booze are complimentary, but the regular tea menu will be available for purchase, too.
Photo: Random Tea Room on Facebook
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