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In Print
- Despite what it sounds like, Mexican barbacoa is far from just a south-of-the-border translation of American barbecue — it's a time-honored and time-consuming process that produces some of the best meat you'll ever eat. Brion Shreffler tracks the tradition all the way from Puebla to Philly.
- Feel the need to wear a paper hat, get sloppy on aquavit and crack a bunch of chilled crayfish? Brian Wilensky runs down exactly when and where you make this happen.
- In Feeding Frenzy: Word on Raw at the Piazza, Zeppoli, Bubba's Texas BBQ and more Philly restaurant tidbits.
- In What's Cooking: Details on tonight's Bell's Brewery dinner at Pub & Kitchen, the Food Trust's next Night Market and more.
Photo: Neal Santos
- At Fairmount's green-friendly Fare, the aggressively healthful ethos of the food is distracting from the restaurant experience.
- Big-beer giant Anheuser-Busch InBev recently filed trademarks for 15 American area codes — including Philly's 215. Will this affect regional craft breweries and their bottom lines?
- In Feeding Frenzy: Sawatdee, a.kitchen, Scott Dogs, lunch at Opa and new owners at Xochitl.
- In What's Cooking: Where Bebe's Barbecue is popping up, a Christmas-y Feast of the Seven Fishes in July and more.
Photo: Neal Santos
- On the cover this week: Carolyn Wyman shares the history of Philly's own Bassetts Ice Cream, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2011 — that makes them the oldest creamery in America still run by the same family.
- Adam Erace visits Al Zaytouna, the Tunisian-owned Middle Eastern BYO in the Italian Market, and finds that this eatery, named for the olive, is still a little green.
- Lauren Boggi, creator of Philly's Lithe Method fitness regime, has launched her own line of locally sourcd, calorically correct and preservative-free eats, called Lithe Foods.
- It's CP's 30th anniversary this year, so we've taken the opportunity to look back on three decades of food/drink coverage. What better place to start than at Friday Saturday Sunday, the Rittenhouse restaurant that's been in business for even longer than CP's been around?
- We grabbed some memorable quotes from City Paper food critics past.
- Revisiting a few food-centric cover stories from the '80s moving forward.
- In What's Cooking: Info on Monday's monthly dinner at Café Estelle, a serious pizza competition, good dealage out in U-City and more.
Photos: Neal Santos and Jessica Kourkounis
- Adam Erace takes on the "enchanting, exacting" experience at Talula's Garden, the collaboration between Stephen Starr and Aimee Olexy of Talula's Table. Find out what plate earns his honor of "Pasta Dish of 2011" — even though the year's only half over.
- We're currently in the thick of the Summer of Riesling, a nationwide promotion nudging wine drinkers toward the oft-misunderstood grape. (It's not just sweet!) There are plenty of Philly bars and restaurants taking up the cause, too.
- In Feeding Frenzy: Dish on The Blind Pig, Kansai, Hop Sing Laundromat, Rubb BBQ and other dining tidbits.
- In What's Cooking: Nicole Rossi previews next week's Yards/Culton Organics dinner at Kennett, this Saturday's Vendy Awards and more.
Photo: Neal Santos
- Adam Erace shoots up Ogontz Avenue to visit Relish in West Oak Lane, finding that the Bynum brothers' soul food-y jazz club provided him with "one of my more entertaining, albeit thirsty, meals in recent memory." Shrimp and grits y'all.
- Photographer Albert Yee — you might know him as "Picky" from messyandpicky.com — has a new show, called "Hands That Feed Us," celebrating the individuals who keep our local foodshed running. It opens tomorrow night at Gravy Gallery.
- In Feeding Frenzy: Details on Hot Diggity!, Gemelli on Main, Vedge and more.
- In What's Cooking: A Running of the Bulls menu at Tinto, Friday Farmhouse Feasts at Meritage, world-class burgers at Village Belle and more.
- Over in the Agenda section, word on two food-centric things to do this weekend: The Super Scooper All-You-Can-Eat Ice Cream Festival (wheeee!) and Saturday's Chinatown Block Party.
Photo: Mark Stehle
- Sansom Street's 1518 Bar & Grill is on the review block this week, and Adam Erace spends most of his time trying to figure out what concept the mixed-up restaurant is actually going for. Gastropub? Mediterreanean kitchen? Neighborhood bar? Smokehouse?! This is confusing.
- We check out the healthy and meticulously codified menu at Pure Fare to find that there is plenty of tasty stuff on the menu, whether you're an aggressive carb and calorie tracker or not.
- In Feeding Frenzy: Word on Serafina, Lulu's Pizza Bar and a new La Colombe location, plus quick hits on Horizons and Sbraga.
- In What's Cooking: Details on tonight's Thursday Night Throwdown at OCF, plus the rundown on other upcoming food/drink events.
Photo: Neal Santos
- Adam Erace shoots up to Mica, Chip Roman's currently-BYO restaurant in Chestnut Hill, to see what the Blackfish owner and his chef Jason Cichonski are working on. He discovers "surgically precise" cuisine that suggests it could become "one of the area's most exciting restaurants." He also describes as a lady as a "jeweled flamingo in a green pashmina."
- If you'd like to chug real-deal cider make to strict colonial specifications (small batches, local apples, natural fermentation), check out Revolution, a new cidery out of Northeast Philly.
- in Feeding Frenzy: Revolution House, Sweet Elizabeth's, The Peoples' Republic and word on Philly's upcoming Shake Shack.
- In What's Cooking: Goats! Cupcakes! Goat cheese! Wine! Goat milk! etc.
Photo: Neal Santos
Sorry for the slight lateness on this one — a few technical issues yesterday. Appreciate you bearing with us.
- Adam Erace takes a trip up to the Northeast to get down on fried chicken, banchan and of course tabletop barbecue at Bobo's, a Korean BBQ restaurant run by three women known only as "Auntie."
- A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt, a documentary that follows the lauded NYC chef for nearly 10 years, debuts early next week on HBO. You don't have to be an expert on chef-type matters or Michelin stars or post-post-post-modern cooking to enjoy it, as it's simply an interesting movie about food.
- In Feeding Frenzy: Word on the now-open Art of Bread, plus quickie details on The Twisted Tail and Guacamole Mex-Grill and lots of other odds and ends.
- In Agenda: Emily Apisa breaks down the Philly Brewing Co. fried chicken run tomorrow (eats courtesy of South Philly Tap Room).
- Also in Agenda: Cassie Owens reminds you that Odunde, Philly's huge annual African new year festival, is going down this Sunday. There are few better places to eat.
- In Icepack: A.D. Amorosi gets some cool details from Suzanne Katz, momma to Mémé chef/owner David Katz, about their mother/son collab dinner next Wednesday, June 15.
Photo: Neal Santos
- Philly Beer Week is precariously close to upon us — don't forget to eat, OK? Here we've got a quick roundup of food-forward PBW events, at restaurants like Noble, Southwark, JG Domestic, London Grill and Good Dog, to name just a few.
- Beach-bummin' Adam Erace chats with Jen Miller, author of the recently updated The Jersey Shore: Atlantic City to Cape May, about her favorite Jersey Shore eats.
- In Feeding Frenzy: Word on brand-new spots Fare, Wedge + Fig and Al Zaytouna.
- In What's Cooking: Laurel Rose Purdy's got just a few Beer Week picks out of the 86 bajillion to choose from.
- Over in Icepack, A.D. Amorosi's got a juicy rumor involving a James Beard-winning chef scouting a space in North Philly.
- In Agenda, Meg Augustin has word on this Saturday's Pints and PinUps Block Party at Varga Bar.
Photo: Neal Santos
- Adam Erace tests the waters at the new Chinatown location of Erawan, who's been serving killer Thai at 23rd and Sansom forever. He somehow channels Wiz Khalifa while discussing green and yellow curries. Cheers to that, and cheers to Erawan's golden bags (read on).
- Though we weren't hungover at the time, we took on a few recipes from Milton Crawford's The Hungover Cookbook to determine whether or not we'd be able to accomplish them while full of stale whiskey. Results were largely successful, though please please PLEASE no blenders.
- In What's Cooking: Word on wine tastings, gluten-free education and serious burger-eating contests.
- In Feeding Frenzy: News on new openings Rotisseur, Strange Brew and Burger.Org.
Photo: Mark Stehle
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