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Food and Holidays
'Tis the season for bizarre iterations of the traditional Thanksgiving meal layered sloppily onto a hoagie roll and wrapped in paper like that is a good idea. We've decided to try two of the most prominent examples of this perennial style — one from Wawa and one from Primo Hoagies (we know there are more) — to gauge which one is a less foolish thing to eat.
On Christmas Eve, Italians and Italian-Americans celebrate the Feast of the Seven Fishes, a fin-filled repast in which seven seafoods represent the seven virtues, seven sacraments or seven days of the week, depending whose nonna you ask. (Mine just shrugs.) Mike Stollenwerk of Fish (1708 Lombard St.) will be cooking a modern rendition of the feast at New York City's James Beard House on Dec. 7. Among the species being served: eel (escabeche), shrimp (with cardoons and butterscotch beans) and swordfish (salt-roasted), plus some cheeky takes on classics like crab sausage and peppers and fried smelts over smoked eggplant purée. The wine-paired dinner is $170 per person ($130 for JBF members), and reservations can be made on James Beard’s website. Full menu after the jump.
Jessie Prawlucki, one third of the team at Meal Ticket fave Fond (1617 E. Passyunk Ave.), reports her days-from-opening pastry shop, Belle Cakery (1437 E. Passyunk Ave.), passed its health inspection on Wednesday. Seated across the street from the P.O.P.E. (1501 E. Passyunk Ave.), a mere block away from Fond, Belle will be an easy commute for Prawlucki, who’ll be doing all the restaurant's baking here. She's already accepting orders for holiday desserts like brown butter apple tarts, pumpkin cheesecakes and amaretto truffles. (Full Thanksgiving menu after the jump; click to enlarge.) To place an order, email the cakery at bellecakery@gmail.com and stayed tuned to Meal Ticket to updates and pictures.
Every day from now until Thanksgiving, Jake's Sandwich Board (122 S. 12th St.) will be serving up their Turduken sandwich for $10. (It was a hit last year.) Get ready to feast on a fresh-baked roll smeared with cranberry spread, topped with apple/sausage stuffing, filled with slices of Creole-seasoned chicken, house-roasted duck and turkey and finished off with fried hash browns. Above, check out Jake's owner Gary Dorfman assembling the sandwich as a tribute to famous turducken enthusiast John Madden.
Chipotle is holding its annual "Boorito" Halloween promo today. In the past, the Mexi chain has encouraged patrons to dress up like menu items to get free food, but this year they're doing it a little differently — show up at any Philly location between the hours of 6 p.m. and closing dressed in a costume inspired by "the family farm," and you'll get a burrito, tacos, a salad or a bowl for two bucks. Come as a humanely raised animal (a jolly pig perhaps?), a farmer or a locally grown vegetable for access to a cheap dinner; the idea is to drive funds and attention to Chipotle's Cultivate Foundation, which shows support to family farms and promotes sustainable agriculture and food education.
In addition, there’s an online costume contest. Take a photo of yourself dressed in your farm-inspired costume at a Chipotle today and upload it at chipotle.com/boorito, or text “COSTUME” to 888222. The grand-prize winner will get $2,500, five runners-ups will get a grand each and 25 honorable mentions will receive a burrito party for 10 friends.
You don't need to be Jewish to celebrate the holidays this week with Michael Solomonov and the crew at Zahav (237 St. James Place). Solo was featured in the New York Times last week with his favorite recipes for Rosh Hashana, some of which will be available tonight through Oct. 2 in a five-course, $45 prix-fixe. Each mesibah includes hummus and salatim (with challah instead of the usual laffa) and Mama Solo's coffee-braised brisket. Call for 215-625-8800 reservations; full menu after the jump (click to enlarge).
Photo: Ryan Collerd/New York Times
Today marks the beginning of Ramadan, and Muslims worldwide have already begun their month of prayer, study, charity and daytime fasting. West Philly's Manakeesh Café (4420 Walnut St.), which earned a nice nod from our Adam Erace back in March, is typically open all day, but they'll stay closed until sundown for the duration of August in observance of the holy month. Once they reopen at 8 p.m. every night, though? Then it's time to eat.
July — and really, what other month could it possibly be foreal? — is National Hot Dog Month. To mark this annual tubesteakian occassion, chef Daniel Stern has instituted a very nice hot dog deal at MidAtlantic (3711 Market St.) that'll run today through the 31st: You'll be able to get one of his scratchmade "Smoke House" hot dogs (with pickles, mustard, kraut and chips), plus a pint of beer, for just six bucks all month. And that, my freedom-loving friends, is what America is all about.
Photo: Neal Santos
Jose Garces' Tinto (114 S. 20th St.) will feature a Basque-inspired prix-fixe menu to honor Pamplona's San Fermín Festival, the most famous feature of which is the annual "Running of the Bulls." The four-course small-plate menu will be available beginning on Wednesday, July 6 (actually the first day of San Fermín) and run through July 31. It costs $65 per person, with an optional Spanish wine pairing for an additional $40 per person. Check out the menu in full after the jump.
This Fourth of July weekend, Lou and Joey Campanaro of Village Belle (757 S. Front St.) will serve the burger that in 2009 was named one of the "50 Best Foods in the World" by London's Observer. The brothers will charcoal-grill the featured LaFrieda blend bacon cheeseburgers, which originate at Joey's NYC restaurant Little Owl (brother Lou runs the Belle down here; they're South Philly natives), and sell them for $8, in addition to offering other goodies like pulled pork sandwiches and beverages. The outdoor grilling will take place on Friday, July 1 starting at 6 p.m. and Saturday, July 2, starting a 5 p.m. While indoor seating and Village's Belle's regular dinner menu will still be available, the Campanaros encourage all to spread out a blanket and take advantage of the weather and the view, especially for the Saturday night fireworks.
Photo: Courtesy of Village Belle
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