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Menu Time
Last fall, chef Jonathan Adams at Pub & Kitchen (1946 Lombard St.) permanently shelved his popular Windsor burger indefinitely in favor of the $18, custom-LaFrieda-blend behemoth known as the Churchill. This month — tomorrow, Oct. 4, to be exact — Adams is working a new brioche-bunned contender into the fray: the Parliament, one of many new options on a completely overhauled P&K menu. We held our own version of Question Time with Adams yesterday to get the rundown on the new beefy legislative body.
Relying on LaFrieda's classic beef burger blend, which combines brisket, shoulder and short rib, The Parliament is an 8-ouncer formed slightly thinner than The Churchill, which remains on the menu. The accompaniments are what helps it stand on its own accord — English-style cheddar from Vermont's Grafton Village, house-cured pork belly (same stuff you miss from the Windsor), big rings of raw white onion, fresh lettuce and, most vitally, an herb- and mayo-based "pub sauce" spread onto the bottom bun. (Side of fries, too). The generous crunch of the onion and lettuce, plus that special house slather, lend it the feel of a classic American griddle-top burger a la In-N-Out or old-school Mickey D's, with each drippy, robust LaFrieda beef bite justifying the $14 price tag.
If you're put off by raw onions — it's a nearly zep-like eating experience — the Parliament is probably not the move for you, but there's more than a few alternatives on Adams' new fall menu. Peep it in full after the jump; the choucroute, fusilli with ragu bianco and roasted marrow bones sound like autumnal grubbing material for damn sure.
Photos: Drew Lazor
Jill Weber's Jet Wine Bar (1525 South St.) has updated its menu dramatically for the fall, fleshing out the food offerings at the vinohead's destination to include more sharing plates, more charcuterie and more vegetarian options. All of that finger-friendly fare jives with Jet's unconventional glass and bottle lists, but the menu (snag a PDF here via Jet's site) also marks Jet's movement into more of a restaurant — they've also made room for seafood (in the form of daily-rotating ceviche and mussel specials), plus regular entrée specials.
Photo: Drew Lazor
Back in August, we told you about Nanina Scriber, the vet of NYC's Benoit who is the now chef de cuisine at Olivier Desaintmartin's Zinc (246 S. 11th St.). Check out her opening menu, which features classic colder-weather plates like lamb shank prepped "cassoulet style" and roasted chicken with root vegetables, after the jump (click to enlarge). Nostalgic, non-squeamish French bistro fans will be excited to note that Desaintmartin still offers an $85 duck press for two option.
Monday, September 5
Happy Labor Day.
Tuesday, September 6
Eulogy/Beneluxx owner Mike Naessens is opening a Chinese/German concept in Old City.
Double Shots, also in Old City, has changed its name.
Wednesday, September 7
Munish Narula's new upscale Indian restaurant, Tashan, is open for business.
The venerated Palm gets a fresh new look.
We've got the latest on Rich Landau and Kate Jacoby's Vedge.
Thursday, September 8
Mémé is giving out free fried chicken to celebrate its third birthday.
Check out our recipe for zha jiang mian, aka Beijing bolognese.
Grubwithus is a new social media tool that brings strangers together to break bread.
More details are emerging about Mike Stollenwerk's relocation of Fish.
Friday, September 9
Chicken.Org (534 S. Fourth St.), the organic poultry eatery from the owners of the nearby Burger.Org (326 South St.), has opened its doors. (We first mentioned it in late July.) The certified glatt kosher restaurant, which keeps a mashgiach, or kosher supervisor, on-site, offers chicken every which way — sandwiches, wings, chicken meatballs, rotisserie-style whole birds, honey/sesame — plus sides like hummus, cabbage salad, rice and roasted sweet potatoes. Aesthetically it's done up in a similar fashion to its burger-serving counterpart (also glatt kosher now), with plenty of eye-rubbing greens and oranges everywhere.
Here's a look at the menus for superduperbrandnew MilkBoy, which just opened at the corner of 11th and Chestnut on Aug. 15. They started off slow last week, serving just coffee and booze (yes, there are coffee cocktails), but now they're full into food, as well, serving an affordable selection of diner-style plates. We particularly like the sound of pickled veggie tempura and bacon satay. Bacon on a stick wheeeee. Both menus after the jump for your perusal (click to enlarge).
Because June is very different from August, September from November, etc., we love how Fond (1617 E. Passyunk Ave.), instead of overhauling the menu once a season, does so thrice to reflect shifting availability of what’s growing when. Lee Styer and Jessie Prawlucki's late-summer menu, abloom with heirloom tomatoes, figs and eggplant, premieres this week, featuring the return of our favorite risotto in town: corn! Styer tames its creamy sweetness with salty pancetta and a drizzle of tangy sherry syrup. Eat it immediately, as well as any of the other dishes listed after the jump.
Restaurant Row 2.0's a.kitchen (AKA Rittenhouse Square, 135 S. 18th St.) is poised to roll out weekend brunch, which'll run Saturdays and Sundays in the sweet time window of 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. See the full menu, which features eats like gruyere buns with poached eggs and country ham and frittata of corn, chorizo and green chilies, after the jump.
Two new joints of note are serving in Philly's Chinatown. The first is Yummy Lan Zhou Hand Drawn Noodle House (131 N. 10th St.), open for about a month in the old Ho Sai Gai space at 10th and Cherry. Don't get it confused with Nan Zhou Hand Drawn Noodle House (927 Race St.) just down the street — it's different owners, but the two are similar in approach menu-wise. While Nan Zhou (an Americanization of Lanzhou, the Chinese city famous for hand-draw noodles) focuses on soups, Lan Zhou also offers a selection of noodle dishes sans broth, topped with clams, beef tendon, pig ears and so forth. Both offer two of our fave starters, however — spicy pig ears and u-toy in oyster sauce. Here's the full menu (JPG). Hours: Sun.-Thu., 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 11 a.m.-10 p.m.
Also new — it grand-opened today, actually — is Jin Wei at 925 Race, located directly adjacent to (yes!) Nan Zhou. This is a steam-table operation, open for lunch and dinner, offering a selection of four items from the line for a total price of $4. (Yes, we asked twice to make sure this was correct. Four bucks yo.) Looks like the selection will be switching up daily, but today we spied whole steamed blue crabs, fried prawns and mixed veggies in sauce as options.
Yesterday we shared all the menus for The Twisted Tail (509 S. Second St.), the "bourbon house and juke joint" from bartender-about-town George Reilly and chef Michael Stevenson. It opens tonight at 4 p.m. but swung by a little earlier this afternoon for a few photos.
Reilly's taken the bilevel space, formerly Kildare's, and brushed everything up with some polished rock 'n' roll touches (check out Stevie Ray, Janis and the other luminaries looking over you in the downstairs dining room). Upstairs level features another bar (the bourbon barrels bolstering each corner are a cool touch), a rec-type room (with shuffleboard!) and a small stage, complete with drum kit and operational guitars on the walls for visiting musicians who might've forgot their ax at home.
Get all the info on booze and food (Stevenson will focus on the grill in Twisted Tail's kitchen) via yesterday's post, or check out the opening dinner menu, opening beer/wine list and opening whiskey list (PDFs).
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