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| Unbreaded |
| The Fancy Foods Show only comes but once a year |
Every Wednesday, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what's simmering.
- Unbreaded treks to NYC for the 55th Annual NASFT Fancy Food Show, a glutton's fantasy of multi-hued olive oils, cured meats, deluxe chocolate, candy of every sort, teas, coffees and every other thing that makes your credit card vibrate when you step into Di Bruno Bros.
- Apples and Cheese, Please unites two of America's obsessions with Bon Appetit's coffee-rubbed burgers. Two great tastes that taste great together? Girlfriend gives it a hearty hell yeah; you get the recipe just in time for Fourth of July cookouts.
- Foobooz has conveniently chewed over Lauren McCutcheon's Philadelphia Magazine profile of our favorite cook, Jose Garces, and spit out the highlights. Peep it to find out if Village Whiskey will open before brown liquor goes out of fashion, and why the man missed the James Beard Awards.
- Akoya, the restaurant below Pearl nightspot, is taking the summer off, according to Michael Klein at The Insider.
- Foodaphilia tours The Restaurant School's library before enjoying a multi-course dinner in the student-run restaurant, including a whipped goat cheese infused with herbs that she plans to make at home.
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| Photo courtesy Oyster House |
| Maine-on-Sansom-Street |
Every Wednesday, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what's simmering.
-I used to moan about the lack of lobster rolls in our fair city; the crustacean keepers must have heard my cry.� Not only do we have the tony $26 version at the gorgeous old-is-new-again Oyster House, but Phoodie.info has the word on London Grill's $13 lobby roll and $18.95 lobster bake.
- We are really into the MenuPages blog, much more so than MenuPages itself.� So we're feeling a bit worried about blogger Elsa Marvel, since the blog hasn't been updated since June 5.�� Where are you, girl? Mama says come home.
-� Michael Klein of The Insider must have a Spidey sense for delayed openings. This week he has the details on The Commonwealth, a new "adaptable social space" in Midtown Village.
- Philly Mag food writer and What I Weigh Today blogger Joy Manning went to NYC and hit up two of the most buzzy restaurants in town, Corton and Minetta Tavern. Click over for the scoop and a new wine expert to follow on Twitter.
- Yards could be opening a brewpub in Merchantville, New Jersey, says Joe Sixpack on Beer Radar.� The boys are also hard at work devising a pub for their production brewery on Delaware Avenue, which would add the entertaining spectacle of beer geeks� and Octo Grille patrons alike Froggering across the Avenue on Friday nights.
I had been wondering too. Any update? I really enjoyed reading Elsa's daily posts, I hope to see her blog back and running soon. Hope you're OK. Carl
sptr has a lobster roll for $14, that is absolutely amazing. taste exactly like the ones on cape cod.
Rumor has it she's gotten the axe.
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| Five Spice Duck |
| Tender and trendy: Korean tacos |
Every Wednesday, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what's simmering.
-- Five Spice Duck doesn't post often, but when they do, it's so good. Drool over their version of Korean tacos, pictured above.
-- The Restaurant Club knows that nothing provokes comments like a discussion of service.� Add your rant/praise/damnation to this hoary chestnut, but don't forget, it's 20 percent.
-- Both Unbreaded and Living on the Vedge visit the new incarnation of Rick's Steaks in the Bellevue Food Court.� The 'Breaded boys delve into Rick's noble lineage, while Kelly White names a new, Pantone hue for the color of her seitan cheesesteak: "off-provolone".
-- Insatiable belly Adam Erace of Blogalicious visits Headhouse Market and turns up some tasty edible nasturtiums at Yoders Heirlooms. You, too, can mix up a fruit medley and top with the peppery blooms, or add some eye candy to a salad.
-- Feeling nostalgic for the revolting chewing gum trees of South Street?� Wear your devotion on your chest with this guaranteed-no-nookie T-shirt.� Via The Illadelph, who saw it on Serious Eats.
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| Unbreaded |
| Hail sausage, full of Grace. |
Every Wednesday, we poke around the food blog world to see what's simmering.
- The ever-hungry bloggers of Unbreaded can't get enough of the boudin blanc sausage sandwich and blackened green beans at Grace Tavern. Source the same quality forcemeats as Grace with a trip to� Martin's Quality Meats & Sausage in the Reading Terminal Market, who supply the tavern with boudins and chicken-and-feta sausages.
- Living On The Vedge immerses herself in nutrients with the whole wheat, vegan almond cheese, spinach, basil and veggie sausage pie at Home Slice, and is as generous with her praise as Home Slice is with their basil.
- Michael Klein, se�or Insider, reveals a meaty Father's Day deal. Click over for the two Center City restaurants that are giving your dad a free steak on his big Hallmark holiday.
- Newly facial hair-free Two Guys on Beer explore the tangled web of shared ownership and contract brewing between sushi staples Sapporo and Kirin Ichiban. No matter how cool the can, it's all just light lager in the end.
- Foobooz is down with the new Sunday burger nights at Bistro 7. Bistro 7, you had us at Amish cheddar; you ravished us with duckfat fries.
All I can think of is the scene from Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, haha.
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| UWISHUNU |
| Fete Day on Elfreth's Alley |
Every Wednesday, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what's simmering.
- If you've ever wondered how life in colonial Philadelphia tasted, visit Elfreth's Alley annual Fete Day this Sat., June 6. UWISHUNU has the lowdown on the Fete, a block party complete with early-American food, crafts, demonstrations and tours of the oldest residential street in America.
- Steven Cook and Michael Solomonov � the duo behind Marigold Kitchen, Xochitl and Zahav �� have signed a lease for the former Crescent City space on on the 900 block of South Street, reports Michael Klein on The Insider. The restaurateurs will install a Texas-style barbecue restaurant to open mid-fall; name and chef to be announced.
- MenuPages Blog picks up a cute Food Network video of Philly girl Katie Cavuto, a registered dietician, personal chef and former gymnast competing on the upcoming season of The Next Food Network Star. You can read a Q&A with her on Philly Mag's Restaurant Club blog, or meet her perk in person at the Sidecar Bar & Grill June 13. (She's also featured in our May 7 piece on Philly Kitchen Share.)
- Craig LaBan doesn't get much sympathy from anybody. As food critic for the Inquirer, he gets to eat and nitpick as a career. The pity embargo was lifted today, when I read his review of KFC's new Kentucky Grilled Chicken. The appetizing descriptors dry, flabby, flaccid and " half-rendered puddles of fat" were all used.
- If you haven't mangled a McGlinchey's chili dog in a while, Hawk Krall of Drawing For Food wants you to rest assured they haven't changed at all. Scrounge some change out of the sofa and slouch into the Glinch for a porter and a dog. Things are gonna be alright.
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| Philly Market Cafe |
| Possible canel� packaging by Gaetano |
Every Wednesday, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world too see what's simmering.
- Canel� King Gaetano of Philly Market Cafe is getting his nascent canel� vending business off the ground. Look for his Bordeaux pastry sharing space with Joe the Coffee Guy at the Headhouse Farmer's Market, and at an upcoming market outside Whole Foods on Thursdays that launches June 18.
- Plato gravity, the specs of the Reinheitsgebot and identifying phenols are child's play to the Craft Beer Institute's Cicerone Certification Program. Joe Sixpack's current column in the Daily News profiles the exam that tests the geekiest of beer geeks. Try your hand (or dash your hopes) at Beer Radar.
-Gabe Jaffe at Drawing For Food posts a recipe for slow-braised pork carnitas that's easy and way tempting, if not faster than hitting up Veracruzana.
- 'Tis the season for radishes, and Farm To Philly has some suggestions for what to do with the little sparkplugs. Try out a soup made from radish greens and a riff on the classic radish-cooked-in-butter.
- MenuPages blog picks up a fun story on Red Bull Cola, which was found to contain traces of actual cocaine! Six German states have already banned the drink; read all about it on the New York Post's site.
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| Blogalicious |
| Frulatto with bendy straw at La Golosa |
Every Wednesday, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what's simmering.
- Frullati, the spice-tinged whipped chocolate and fruit concoctions at Passyunk Avenue's La Golosa, have food critic Adam Erace at Blogalicious doing the dessert dance. The cacao drink has frothy bubbles and a bendy straw, but darling, don't call it a milkshake.
- Despite the absence of a dedicated vegetarian entre�, Living On The Vedge finds a lot to like at Noble American Cookery. An appetizer of poached white asparagus is topped with summer truffles and a flash-fried soft-boiled egg, proving for good and all that vegetarians can eat just as unhealthily as the rest of us.
- With Frank Bruni leaving the restaurant critic gig at The New York Times, The Illadelph speculates on the odds that Craig LaBan might take a stab at what is clearly the best job in the universe.
- Yesterday, Michael Klein at the Inky revealed that reality TV fixture and three-star Michelin chef Gordon Ramsay would be making the servers cry at fishtown's Hot Potato Caf� for Kitchen Nightmares. Then he reported that after Ramsay's sample tasting dinner at Hot Potato, he managed to get fed on the late at 10 Arts. Where will the Mad Dog Chef strike next? If he's smart, he'll ask for a reco and not just default to the only New York chef restaurant in town.
- Also, Klein has "moles." Not on his face, but the spying sort well-placed in struggling restaurants. He lays out the rules for guests dining on camera at Hot Potato this week. If you were planning on wearing your all-white, midriff-baring outfit, you're not gettin' any taters.
* This post has been edited to reflect proper attribution.
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| Unbreaded |
| Fu-Wah tofu hoagie, pre-devour |
Every Wednesday, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what's simmering.
- The Unbreaded boys take on the Fu-Wah tofu hoagie, a vegetarian's contender for the classic Philadelphia sandwich. Only here can you get banh mi on an Amoroso roll.
-Kelly White's best quote ever: "We have a case of a kitchen that's trying too hard, combined with a bar that's not trying enough. This is Sansom St., home to the best bikini wax in the world. You need to hang with those guys. There's no room for high-ceiling bars that bury shallots in trends." Click over to Livin' On The Vedge to find out which restaurant she's talking about.
- Rooster in wine, or coq au vin, is a classic dish that is "deceptively hard" but "very tasty" for I'll Eat You. Try Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles recipe the next time you're feeling cock of the walk enough to peel all those pearl onions.
- Foobooz hooks readers up with a coupon for a free pitcher of mixer at modern-Indian BYOB Bindi, courtesy the Center City District's mid-May e-mail. Tote your own booze to combine with nimbu-pani (pomegranate-ginger lemondade) or mango-sharbat (mango, lime, green cardamom).
-MenuPages blog posted videographer David Fields' digi-film of his opening night dinner at Noble American Cookery. Get a look at chef Steven Cameron's much-buzzed cuisine and the two covetable indoor-outdoor tables in action.
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Every Wednesday, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what's simmering.
- Joe Sixpack and the female half of Meal Ticket have more than excessive brew knowledge in common � we both worship at the counterculture altar of Tom Robbins, who has beaten us to writing a beer book for kids. Robbins' trademark mind-bending prose is ideal for childhood's long strange trip; read a few chapters on HarperCollins Web site here.
- Union Trust partner Terry White is out like blue eyeshadow, according to Michael Klein at The Insider. White's (former) partners at Union Trust, Ed Doherty and developer Joe Grasso, did not comment on the split. A lightened menu and lower price points are on the docket from new chef de cuisine Kevin Sbraga, former culinary director of Jose Garces� Restaurant Group. Shrimp cocktail ceviche, perhaps?
- Shed a tear over your final roast pork with rabe and prov at Shank & Evelyn's, which will serve their last in the Italian Market location tomorrow. MenuPages blog notes that the Poppa family will re-open at 120 S. 15th Street in six to eight weeks.� Hopefully the Souf Philly waitresses can venture north without turning into pumpkins. Perky Center City waitrons don't have the style to serve Shank's sandwiches.
- Foodie at Fifteen Nick mourns the addition of a la carte and walk-in dining at his personal "Mt. Olympus," Thomas Keller's Per Se in NYC. Sixteen is old enough to learn that in a recession, nothing is sacred, especially $300 tasting menus.
- Charlotte at Farm to Philly shares her method for splitting a batch of homemade mayo � some for now, and some to freeze for later. Kudos to solving a great mystery of the kitchen: What the heck do I do with all this mayo?
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| via The Illadelph |
| Pretty, and composts plenty. |
Every Wednesday, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what's simmering.
- Take a wild guess who the biggest composter is in Philadelphia. The Illadelph has the big reveal on which biz composted more than 360,000 pounds of food waste since 2007, which they also buy back to use as fertilizer on their grounds.
- Spring has sprung and ramps are popping up everywhere, including Blogalicious. Adam shows that the critic can cook, spinning the sprightly spring onion into a basil-and-mint pesto that shuns pine nuts for an unconventional almond.
- Art Etchells and Kirsten Henri of Foobooz debate the last crusty dinosaur of fine dining: the dress code Their He Said, She Said attempts to draw the fine line between slovenly and just casual.� Defend or condemn flip-flops in the comments.
- Yuppie Eats Philly gets down with a table of 11 at Pesto on South Broad. The Italian-American eatery is rich in cavatelli, chicken parm and rigatoni primavera; plus you get to park in the middle of Broad St. like the locals. Bring your own Chianti, hon.
- Drawing for Food visits a "secret" cheesesteak spot at 22nd and Passyunk. Hints: the fries have so much whiz you have to use a fork, it's open 24 hours and fish cakes are on the menu.
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