Archive: January, 2011

Fathom moving forward

POSTED: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 6:52 PM

Filed Under: Openings

Chef Mike Stollenwerk's Fathom Seafood House (200 E. Girard Ave.), which we started discussing back in June, has been held up with the typical paperwork snags, but we're told that the fish/Little Fish owner's zoning hearing yesterday was successful, and that he's targeting Feb.7 (the Monday after the Super Bowl) for a debut date. Will keep you posted; in the meantime, check out the sample menus for the joint that we posted back in November.

Fathom Seafood Bar to open in Fishtown

Posted 2011-01-20 16:09:55

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IN PRINT: City Paper Food and Restaurants, Jan. 20

POSTED: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 6:10 PM

Filed Under: In Print

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- Folks certainly weren't happy when long-running Old City rock club The Khyber announced it would be converting into a restaurant, but Adam Erace discovers there's little to complain about at the Southern-inspired Khyber Pass Pub. One bag of bacon-grease popcorn, please! - Winter is a time for hearty, fatty stews and tummy-comforting roasts, but we also need some crisp vegetation in our lives, no? The perfect place to start is Felicia D'Ambrosio's roundup of seasonally appropriate winter salads around town. - Feeding Frenzy brings you details on a quartet of brand-new openings: SOCIAL, Manakeesh CafÃ©, Perch Pub and Cantina Feliz.

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WEEKLY CANDY: Ritter Sport Yogurt Bar

POSTED: Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 10:50 PM

Filed Under: Weekly Candy

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Once a week, Team Meal Ticket shares its latest sugar-laden fixations. Do not tell 0ur dentist. IN QUESTION: A member of Ritter Sport's rainbow of fine German 100-gram chocolate bars, the white wrapper-clad Milk Chocolate & Yogurt variety begs the question, "Why spoon when you can snap?" Enveloped in silky 55 percent milk chocolate, pockets of tangy yogurt cream fill each of the bar's 16 bite-size squares. AVAILABLE AT: The wide array of Ritter Sport bars stocked at our old reliable Food & Friends (20th/Spruce) was a real boon for Weekly Candy. Just east of Broad Street, Citi Marketplace (13th/Walnut) also keeps several varieties of Ritter Sport on hand. HOW MANY DO WE TYPICALLY EAT IN ONE SITTING: It's a small bar that packs a rich punch. If you're in it for the long haul (say, a six- to eight-hour marathon of 24), you could easily consume the whole thing. Splitting one down the middle with a companion is a fair way to divvy up the goods and reach total chocolate-y satisfaction without overdoing it. No matter how much or how little you consume, keep a cup of water handy to keep any subsequent thiristies at bay. Thank me later. FINER POINTS: Ritter Sport bars draw their name from their perfect sport coat pocket size, making it the ideal contraband for dates, the theater or the daily grind (just be careful on hot days). For those mindful of digestive track activity, the skimmed milk yogurt filling contains live active cultures. Take that, Activia!

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Posted 2011-01-28 13:39:02

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From Tim McGinnis, menus a-Plenty

POSTED: Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 7:24 PM

Filed Under: Menu Time | Openings

Last week, we told you about Tim McGinnis's new perch at Passyunk's Plenty. This week, we've got the eat-in and ready-to-go menu he'll serve when the cafe opens in early February. Peep 'em after the jump.

Charcuterie (Deli)

Tasso ham, herbes de provence, cayenne

Mesquite smoked brisket, Texas dry rub

Whiskey chicken, mesquite smoke, Jack reduction

Fennel cured Gravlax, dill

Turkey leg confit, cloves

Sides in case

Roasted Brussels sprouts, pecorino

Roasted beets, dill, pistachio, house ricotta

Mashed red bliss potatoes, chives

Mac n' mornay

Pasta, broccoli rabe, sharp provolone

Main Proteins in case

Coq au vin, mushrooms, red wine

Three meat meatballs, pork, beef, cured meat, red sauce

Pulled pork shoulder, oregano bbq sauce

Mesquite smoked brisket, Texas dry rub

Vegan red bean jambalaya

Grab & Go Dinners

Open-faced mushroom ravioli

Mesquite smoked beef, mac n' mornay

Coq au vin, mashed potatoes

Pasta and meatballs

Salads

Beet greens, beets, egg, dill, pistachio, raisins, Maytag blue cheese, pickled red onion, lemon vinaigrette

Winter greens, candied hazelnuts, cranberries, Dijon vinaigrette

Classic Caesar

Vegan Caesar

Sandwiches

SautÃ©ed mushrooms, roasted red peppers, gorgonzola, balsamicÂ (Panini)

Tasso ham & Gruyere, creole mayo (Panini)

Gravlox, dill, caper, red onion cream cheese, lemon zest

Whiskey chicken, celery, celery seed, Tennessee whiskey reduction

Roast turkey breast and dark meat with brie and Cumberland sauce

Soups

Chicken noodle

Potato leek

Vegan white bean and escarole

Rotisserie

Pastured chicken

The Yeti

Posted 2011-01-26 11:36:38

Can't wait for the new eatery!

The Yeti

Posted 2011-01-26 11:41:16

Are they going to serve local drafts like Reinkitty Lager or Kartcraft Ale? Or will it be a byob?

Brooks

Posted 2011-02-05 14:57:55

Just tried it today. Really good! Great food, great space, friendly owners. They also have Grab 'n Go prepared dinners for weeknights. East Passyunk 'hood keeps getting better and better.

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Posted 2011-01-24 08:32:08

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New places on Passyunk

Posted 2011-01-20 19:48:52

[...]  [...]

Plenty interesting (passyunk)

Posted 2011-01-28 11:20:07

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Lee

Posted 2011-01-19 18:57:57

Salivatin'....

Michelle

Posted 2011-01-19 17:48:27

This sounds amazing!

Erin

Posted 2011-01-19 18:41:06

Can't wait for this place to open!

Dan

Posted 2011-01-20 13:30:22

Wow. South Philly keeps getting better.

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Sean

Posted 2011-01-21 11:24:17

Looks awesome. How about a Germantown outpost?

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Vegan lunchtime delivery from Miss Rachel

POSTED: Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 7:00 PM

Filed Under: Dealage | Vegan | Vegetarian

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Rachel Klein of Miss Rachel's Pantry, Philly's own vegan personal chef, is now delivering your lunch on Fridays. Each week, Klein's Lunch Club offers up a variety of vegan (plus gluten-free) options â all of which include a sandwich, cup of hot soup, fresh fruit and a sweet snack â for just $10. To make convenient even more convenient, you can order straight from the Lunch Club's site without picking up the phone. Miss Rachel is keeping things simple, hearty, and good for you, with choices like BBQ seitan sandwiches, tofu "chicken salad" and tomato tortilla soup.

Scott

Posted 2011-01-19 19:51:51

Rachel catered Thanksgiving for us. It was wonderful, and she's a sweetheart.

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ruths

Posted 2011-01-21 13:32:25

The BBQ seitan sandwich is divine...as is the snickerdoodle. Thanks Rachel!

Ryan

Posted 2011-01-21 12:41:39

Actually met her a few weeks ago at a friend's housewarming. She was totally sweet, and she brought some food with her, and it was delicious.

miss rachel

Posted 2011-01-26 20:16:49

Thanks for the lovely comments! Just a heads up... the URL has changed slightly. It's now:
http://missrachelspantry.com/The_Lunch_Club.html

Lindsey

Posted 2011-01-19 23:39:46

Rachel's food is amazing, and she's so cute!  <3

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Feb. 5-8: The Philadelphia Bartenders' Guild's "Lost Weekend"

POSTED: Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 5:45 PM

Filed Under: Booze | Food Events

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Why should beer drinkers have all the fun when Philly has developed into a right smart cocktail town in the past few years? From Sat., Feb. 5 through Mon., Feb. 8, the Philadelphia chapter of the United States Bartenders' Guild will host The Lost Weekend, a series of events, both public and private, that'll celebrate the joy of a well-made drink. USBG members will not only be dispensing fine anodynes for the drinking public, but attending seminars and tastings on everything from Japanese single-malt whiskey to carving ice from 100-pound blocks. "I wanted our gatherings to be more educational," says Philly chapter president Phoebe Esmon, bartender at Noble and Kennett, "rather than us just getting drunk." Fortunately, the rest of us have that bit under control. Check out the itinerary of festivities after the jump. Sat., Feb. 5: Busman's Holiday Tour of Philadelphia Distilling Company and Yards Brewing Meet at Kennett (848 S. Second St.) at 11 a.m. to climb aboard a bus chartered direct to Philadelphia Distilling, maker of Bluecoat Gin, Penn 1681 Vodka and Vieux Carre Absinthe, for a talk on spirits with founder/master distiller Robert Cassell, who also built the column and pot stills used by the distillery. From there, the tour will continue to Yards Brewing for an especially yeasty tour and talk with Lab Quality Control expert Frank Winslow. We daresay samples will be in the offing, and your $20 ticket also includes your first quaff at the Beer Cocktail Happy Hour hosted at Kennett from 5 to 7 p.m. (pay as you go). RSVP for the tour by emailing USBGPA[at]gmail[dot]com. Sun., Feb. 6: Shakerfaces Taping USBG members will celebrate Super Bowl Sunday by working their ice-and-tin moves for the first Philadelphia taping of Shakerfaces, a sort of bartenders-in-motion documentary project sponsored by Combier. We'll find out who has the best shakerface when the Philadelphia compilation premiers on the site later this winter. Mon., Feb. 7: Pernod and Beefeater Cocktail Pairing Dinner at Koo Zee Doo Owner of D.C.'s Columbia Room and official Bartender the President (really), cocktail expert Derek Brown will present "The Difficulty of Making Simple Cocktails" to USBG membership early in the day. Two seatings of Phoebe Esmon and Christian Gaal's cocktail pairing dinner at Koo Zee Doo (614 N. Second St.) will follow; the price of $120 per couple scores five courses of Portuguese fare matched to five Pernod and Beefeater cocktails, plus a "welcome punch." Tue., Feb. 8: Closing Bash at Noble A very industry-friendly late-night happy hour, complete with celebrity guest bartenders, wraps up The Lost Weekend. Drop by Noble (2025 Sansom St.) from 10 p.m. to midnight for discounted drinks, complimentary treats and the sort of carrying-on bartenders do best. RELATED: United States Bartenders' Guild to host two days of tastings, celebrity guests and sweet, sweet liquor [08Jan10]

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Phoebe Esmon

Posted 2011-01-19 16:01:17

This is a slight correction to the KZD dinner listing:  thats $120/couple for 5 courses and 5 cocktails.  Hope you can make it!

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EAT THIS IMMEDIATELY: Iannelli's Vanilla Cupcake

POSTED: Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 5:00 PM

Filed Under: Eat This Immediately

Photo | Adam Erace

There are two kinds of cupcake people. The lovers of big, dense, luxurious cakes with lavishly shellacked frosting are the beneficiaries of the long-ago-shark-jumped cupcake craze. I am not one of these people. Give me the other kind: cheap box cupcakes, bake-sale cupcakes. Give me a cupcake light enough that I can eat it in one sitting and not feel like a prime rib's sitting on my diaphragm. Give me Duncan Heinz and Betty Crocker. Give me Iannelli's (1155 E. Passyunk Ave.), the recently expanded bakery that, tardiness be damned, is getting its slice of the cupcake action. âGourmet Cupcakes,â advertises the A-frame sign on the sidewalk. âCaution! Highly Addictive!â They ain't kidding. Vince Iannelli's simple vanilla-vanilla is the confection that single-handedly revived whatever fleeting interest survived in the dark recesses of my soul after Food Network premiered Cupcake Wars. His cupcakes are spongy joys, with a fluffy textured yellow cake and not-too-sweet frosting whipped high and sprinkled with round rainbow jimmies. (The turret of icing looked prettier in the bakery case than it does in the shot above â damn wax paper wrap-job.) There's chocolate, too, red velvet, black-and-white and a mint-chip I've heard is just sick. But the plain old vanilla works for me. Eat it immediately.

Gina

Posted 2011-01-19 18:05:41

These are the absolute best cupcakes ever. Look beautiful and taste great. I had them at my daughters birthday and the crowds went wild!!!!  Yummy!!!

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Zee

Posted 2011-01-19 15:39:44

They're sooooooooooooooooooooo good! :D

Michelle

Posted 2011-01-19 13:21:35

Mint chip?! I must try it!

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Posted 2011-02-02 09:47:30

[...] a taste of the summer (of an Italian summer, anyway) can be had at Iannelli's (1155 E. Passyunk). We told you about their cupcakes last week, now comes the word on their magical Crab [...]

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Speaker's Corner at The Dandelion

POSTED: Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 4:01 PM

Filed Under: Chef Salad | Food Blogs | Food Events

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It's only been open for a few weeks now, but Stephen Starr's new English pub The Dandelion (122-124 S. 18th St.) is already branching out into unexpected territory. On Feb. 1 at 6 p.m., it'll introduce an ongoing lecture series aptly titled Speaker's Corner. The series will bring in food industry luminaries to participate in panels and discussions about their work, and best of all, it's totally free (if you grab a pint and some grub). The first two speakers are H. Alexander Talbot and Aki Kamozawa, authors of the exploratory food blog Ideas in Food as well as the brand-new cookbook of the same name (check out our review here). The panel will be moderated by food columnist Rick Nichols of the Inquirer, and should be a good opportunity to get to know the minds behind the book.

poncho

Posted 2011-01-19 13:28:19

Aaaaaaaaahhh, this sounds like my worst nightmare!

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Checking in on Fishtown's Brindle Cafe

POSTED: Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 9:29 PM

Filed Under: Menu Time | Openings

Brindle Cafe (221 E. Girard Ave.), a recent addition to the slew of new East Girard eateries, is aiming at locals in a big way. Scott Forman, formerly of Old City's Swanky Bubbles, opened Brindle to create a vibe that would appeal to a mix of local eaters. To Forman, a Philly native who named his joint after his brindle pit bulls Kayla and Gracie, his space is "by the neighborhood, for the neighborhood, appealing to those outside of the neighborhood." He's combined menu cues from locals with what he'd imagined before he built the interior on his own. While the decor is still in its tweaking stages, the space is still cozy enough for people watching while sipping on a cup of One Village coffee.

Brindle features a vast list of fresh sandwiches â all meats are roasted by Forman â and salads, while elaborating on simple classics like PB&J and gooey grilled cheeses. We tried a slow-roasted pork sandwich (0n rye, accented with sharp provolone and sweet honey) and a green salad with dates, mozzarella, Prosciutto and roasted veggies. A recent trip to India brought Forman back with a jackpot of spices, which he hand grinds, mortar and pestle style. Check out Brindle's full menu below.


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poncho

Posted 2011-01-19 13:32:13

This place looks so nice, is sandwich spelled wrong on purpose?

DSW

Posted 2011-01-18 22:35:22

Wow...I live right around the corner and didn't realize a new spot had opened!! So excited to try it out. Just what the doctor ordered- healthy options.
What would I do without the CityPaper to open my eyes!!

ThadS

Posted 2011-01-18 18:33:26

Looks pretty decent. I will be moving up that way soon, so I will definitely take advantage.

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Philly's first Le Pain Quotidien opens tomorrow

POSTED: Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 8:20 PM

Filed Under: Openings

Looks like Philly's Le Pain Quotidien (1423-25 Walnut St.), which we first noted back in October, will officially open to the public tomorrow, Jan. 19, at 9 a.m. sharp. The Belgian chain, which has outposts in 19 different countries, specializes in a huge variety of fresh-baked breads (available in a slew menu items, and for retail purchase, too) and light fare, ranging from salads and snack-type platters to quiches, tarts, soups and sandwiches. (Check the full menu for a better idea of what to grub on.) We'll peek our heads in manana and report back with more.

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Posted 2011-01-23 21:46:29

[...] Le Pain Quotidien location (1423-25 Walnut St.) and snapped some photos of the cafÃ©/bakery, which opened this past Wednesday. LPQ, which offers baked-fresh goodies in a million and one ways, plus boulangerie options aplenty [...]

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Hot Dog Wire: LaBan Coney at ASB
George Sabatino guesting at Scott Dogs Hot Dog Cart Pop-Up
Now Serving: Tiffin Bistro
Vetri opening in the Navy Yard, plus a nod to Le Bec

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