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Food TV
We love the fact that Julia Child's kitchen has a permanent home at The Smithsonian and James Beard's West Village digs serve as a home for chefs from all over the world. But we're kind of on the fence about this breaking news from the Albany Herald out of Georgia.
It appears as though Paula Deen, the crowned queen of butter is going to be getting her own museum in her hometown. The plan, formulated by a local businesswoman as well as Deen's ex husband is to transform her childhood home into a shrine to all things Paula-related. No word yet on whether or not the museum restaurant is going to be serving Cheesy Ham and Banana Casserole, y'all.
The food-TV overlords have just dropped the air date for the Diners Drive-In and Dives episode featuring South Philadelphia Tap Room (1509 Mifflin St.): tonight, Monday, May 13th, and Scott Schroeder & Co. are celebrating the auspicious occasion in generous style, passing out complimentary headcheese tacos during an open-to-the-public viewing party at the Tap Room. Flavor town.
Winter is coming! And so is the season-three premiere of America's favorite saga of incest, dragons, military duplicity and Arctic zombies, Game of Thrones! Old Eagle Tavern (177 Markle St.) in Manayunk is commemorating the Easter Sunday event by broadcasting the episode for its monthly Dinner, Beer & a Movie special. The bar will be pouring Ommegang Iron Throne, the first of four collaborative beers between the Cooperstown brewery and HBO, while chef Morgan Malachi will be cooking show-inspired eats like roasted turkey legs and deviled dragon eggs. Guess the store was all out of unborn puppies or honeyed doormice.
Because who doesn't love to watch Gordon Ramsay fake yell at a bunch of bumbling line cooks we're pleased to announce that there are three Philadelphia-area-based contenders on this season of Hell's Kitchen.
First up we've got Michael Langdon who put in some time at Brasserie Perrier before taking over as the exec at the swanky Huntsville Golf Club in Shavertown, PA. Not too much info on the other two: Jon Scallion of York (pretty tight chef name, amiright?) and Zach Womack who cooks somewhere in Philly. The winner of the eleventh season lands a head chef position at Gordon Ramsay Grill at Caesars Palace in Vegas.
The season kicks off on March 12th at 8 p.m., and yeah, we're totally going to be watching.
VICE magazine's video series, Munchies, tails well-known chefs during their late-night exploits, which, as you might expect, often involve whiskey, beer, off-color jokes and sandwiches. Last month, they featured Amis chef Brad Spence, painting the town red in a baby-blue track suit. Tomorrow, Jeff Michaud of Vetri restaurants Osteria and Amis gets the follow (we hear Mike Solo, Erin O'Shea and Jonnymac also make appearances), and Alla Spina (1410 Mount Vernon) is throwing an impromptu viewing party at 10 p.m. Chef Damon Menapace is putting together a special late-nite menu for the screening, while the bar is serving up $2 Brooklyn lagers. It is, however, Beer Week, and you better believe beverage guy Steve Wildy, whose Twitter handle (@sommillionare) we love, is coming correct with a mother load of weird Italian brews. Take the happy-hour savings and put them toward something rare from Alla Spina's secret reserve collection.
Travel Channel's Food Paradise, which focuses on a thematic American dish or discipline with each episode, is filming at two locations in Philly this weekend, and you can get your grill on TV if you time it right.
On Friday, May 18 from noon to 2, the crew will be at Jake's Sandwich Board (122 S. 12th St.) to shoot the shop's Garlic Bomb (pictured), a vamp-repellent cheesesteak hooked up with roasted garlic spread, sautéed garlic and deep-fried garlic cloves. They're actually looking for a few garlic freaks to participate in their "5-Pound Philly Challenge," featuring the Garlic Bomb, on camera. If you've got a voracious appetite and are OK with smelling like an Italian nonna's kitchen on Christmas Eve for two weeks after, email info@jakessandwichboard.com with three reasons why you should be picked.
On Saturday, May 19, from about 11 a.m. to 2, Food Paradise will shoot at Hot Diggity! (630 South St.). Owner Keith Garabedian is looking to pack the joint for the filming and says the show plans on interviewing customers about their fave dogs and so forth. Saturday will also see the debut of HD!'s housemade sodas — they'll offer a house root beer, a maple lemonade and a cilantro/lime/jalapeno soda, with other flavors rotating in and out in the future.
Photo: Courtesy of Jake's Sandwich Board
Gordon Ramsay descended upon Philadelphia last November to film his Fox show Kitchen Nightmares, and he recruited two Drexel students as his right-hand men. The chef came to University City's Zocalo (3600 Lancaster Ave.) to shoot for KN, in which the Scot storms into a restaurant and overhauls tired menus and bad habits in an effort to help places reinvent themselves. (Zocalo wasn't the only one getting the Ramsay treatment; South Philly's Chiarella's was another "lucky" recipient of a Ramsay house call.)
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.
Demure Food Network host Ted Allen is a bit of an easy target for food TV haters, but this Onion News Network segment shows that the Chopped host has a good sense of humor about himself. Watch as Allen prepares "a stupid-ass trendy piece of fish, coated in some kind of nut you've never heard of, served alongside a purée of baby something or other" out of his latest cookbook, Pretentious Foodie Bullshit.
Two local down-on-their-luck restaurants are getting a Gordon Ramsay reno next month when his show Kitchen Nightmares comes to town to film. First up: red-sauce BYOB Chiarella's (1603 E. Passyunk), which will shoot from Nov. 8 to 11. After, Ramsay and crew will head to West Philly to reinvigorate the Mexi menu at Zocalo (3600 Lancaster Ave.) from Nov. 12 to 15. If you want to be among the breathless, relaunch-night diners, the producers are currently accepting reservations. Don’t call the restaurants: Email the show at phillyrest@gmail.com with “Chiarella’s" or "Zocalo" in the subject line. Include your name, party size and the best number to reach you. And don't try double-dipping; you can only dine at one restaurant or the other. Producers will begin making calls next week.
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