Archive: October, 2010

WEEKLY CANDY: Haribo Sour S'ghetti

POSTED: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 8:15 PM

Filed Under: Weekly Candy

Photo | Drew Lazor

Once a week, Team Meal Ticket shares its latest sugar-laden fixations. Do not tell our dentist. IN QUESTION: Combining three of our favorite things (pasta, sourness and endearing toddler-like mispronunciation), Sour S'ghetti is, in our fructose-addled opinion, candy giant Haribo's finest product. Featuring the ancient, 100 percent natural flavors of "blue," "red" and "green" (a very accurate representation of what you get in the Italian motherland indeed), a sack of Double S is a fine sack indeed. (Do NOT confuse it with Haribo's Fruity Pasta, which is also good but not on the same level.) AVAILABLE AT: Just like last week, you can cop a bag at Food & Friends at 20th and Spruce. HOW MUCH DO WE TYPICALLY EAT IN ONE SITTING?: We've been known to annihilate an entire sack of S'ghetti in a single sitting. It's not a game! Its small slivered size allows for easy multi-color grabbage. You know you did good when the sour sugar is all over your couch post destruction session. FINER POINTS: For what it's worth, our first exposure to Sour S'ghetti came at a friend's apartment several years ago. Some straggly-haired, completely drugged out of his gourd acquaintance of an acquaintance showed up while everyone was watching TV, spotted a bag of S'ghetti somewhere on the premises and proceeded to stuff its entire contents into his quivering E-tard mouth while making noises like "mmmaauhhhhhmm." We watched this happen with great bemusement and slight fear. How this candy-bogarting, brain-damaged hippie managed not to ruin Sour S'ghetti for us, we'll never know. If you're out there, Sour S'ghetti druggie guy, we implore you to come forward and apologize for not sharing.

WEEKLY CANDY: Skwinkles Salsaghetti :: Meal Ticket :: Philadelphia City Paper

Posted 2010-11-18 18:42:43

[...] Like all the best things in life, Skwinkles Salsaghetti, which was endorsed by multiple commenters in a previous Weekly Candy installment, is weird and Mexican. The core of Salsaghetti are small chewy watermelon gummi strands (similar in [...]

leah

Posted 2010-10-14 22:04:51

mmm, Haribo goodness!

if you want some more candy spaghetti fun, you should hit up a bodega for Salsagheti - http://www.candywarehouse.com/salsaghetti.html  kind of awesome... kind of delicious... definitely gets points for coming with sauce!

Ticket Stubs: Meal Ticket Weekly Recap, Oct. 11-15 :: Meal Ticket :: Food Blog :: Philadelphia City Paper

Posted 2010-10-18 11:04:26

[...] we drink an illuminated Asahi?• Tonight: "An orgy of drunken deliciousness" at CapoPENN• WEEKLY CANDY: Haribo Sour S'ghetti• Sunday: Second Annual Farmhouse Ale Dinner at South Philly Tap Room• Nov. 14: Pumpkin [...]

juliana

Posted 2010-10-15 15:47:24

completely agree about s'ghetti > fruity pasta. does anyone know where to obtain haribo gummi cars? i've only ever had them in the philippines (and even there they were hard to find) -- but something about them made them infinitely better than gummi worms. i think it was their thickness.

Kibby

Posted 2010-10-15 08:48:05

Leah! I have also suggested Salsaghetti for this feature! I am a big fan of the packaging and while I find the accompanying sauce to be disgusting I do love the option of putting sauce on your candy.  
Also, Drew- I had completely forgotten about the drug addict dude that ate all of my Sour S'ghetti and I'm not too pleased about being reminded of that event.  It was traumatic.

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Sunday: Second Annual Farmhouse Ale Dinner at South Philly Tap Room

POSTED: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 7:00 PM

Filed Under: Chef Salad | Food Events | Menu Time

As Rachel Burgos told you in What's Cooking this week, there are still a few tickets left for Sunday's Farmhouse Ale Dinner at South Philly Tap Room (1509 Mifflin St.). The food and beer fest is scheduled from 5 to 9 (yes, they will be putting the Phillies game on at 8); tix cost $50, are all-you-can-eat/all-you-can-drink and include both tax and tip. After the jump, check out what SPTR chef Scott Schroeder and his friends from Southwark, Cochon and NYC's Balthazar will be cooking. Also, it needs to be said: This is their second year using the event flyer above, and it is still rather amazing, thanks in equal stead to SPTR's comely staff and the fact that someone thought it'd be a good idea to give Schroeder a pitchfork. Nick Macri (Southwark) Pickled Headcheese Lamb Liverwurst, Pickled Onions, Rye Bread Pig Head Porchetta, Roasted Plum Preserves Duck Prosciutto Lomo Whipped Lardo Gene Giuffi (Cochon) Smoked Country Time Pork Spare Ribs, Saison Dupont Mustard glaze Sheri Waide (Southwark) Kochs Turkey Cooked in Hay Patrick OMalley (Balthazar NYC) Mince Pie, Hard Sauce Plum Strudel Scott Schroeder (SPTR) Pickled Beets Pickled Green Tomatoes Heirloom Apple, Watercress and Warm Mushroom Salad Roasted Potatoes and Leeks Cider Braised Rutabaga, Rosemary Roasted Neck Pumpkin, Ricotta Gnocchi, Brown Butter, Sage Sour Bread Stuffing Assorted Cheeses and Honeys

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Nov. 14: Pumpkin Beer Dinner at Hawthornes

POSTED: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 5:30 PM

Filed Under: Booze | Food Events

Pumpkinheads should plan ahead for this one: Join Hawthornes Café (738 S. 11th St.) as they celebrate their one-year anniversary with a pumpkin beer dinner. On Sunday, Nov. 14 from 7 to 9 p.m., they will pair four savory courses with some delicious pumpkin brews. Though the menu is still in progress (check their site and Facebook for updates), their beer list is already outstanding: Southern Tier Pumking, Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin, River Horse Hipp-O-Lantern and Dogfish Head Punkin Ale will be pouring. The event is $50 and reservations are required; call 215-627-3012 for more information.

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NOW OPEN: B.B. Go Fusion Rice Bar

POSTED: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 4:00 PM

Filed Under: Menu Time | Openings

Photo | Drew Lazor

B.B. Go, a quick-serve Korean restaurant, has been open for about three weeks at the corner of 18th and Ludlow. (The restaurant sports a quite-tasteful exterior paint job not dissimilar from City Paper honor box orange.) The lunch/dinner nook serves Korean specialties like seafood pancakes, japchae and dukbokgi, but its most prominent specialty is bibimbap, which can be ordered with a a base of white or brown rice along with veggies and seaweed, pork, chicken, soy-marinated beef ribs, etc. (Full menu after the jump.) They're open weekdays from 11 to 9 and Saturdays from noon to 8 p.m.; closed Sundays.

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Sofitels Liberté opens Monday

POSTED: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 3:15 PM

Filed Under: Openings

Liberté, the new restaurant concept in the Sofitel (120 17th St.), will officially open this coming Monday, Oct. 18, right on schedule. Aussie-born chef Kevin Levett will oversee a menu of polished, French-inspired dishes, including a cassoulet with Magret duck breast and Tolouse sausage; coq au vin drumsticks; and roasted lamb loin with fondant potato and ratatouille. Drink-wise, expect a lineup of serious cocktails from mixologist Marc Yanga, from spins on classic Negronis and Sazeracs to an "Autumn Fashioned," with bourbon, fresh ginger, macerated pear, cranberries and a crystallized ginger garnish. The restaurant will serve lunch and dinner daily, as well as afternoon "LiberTea" from 2:30 to 5 p.m.

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IN PRINT: City Paper Food and Restaurants, Oct. 14

POSTED: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 2:00 PM

Filed Under: In Print

Photo | Neal Santos

- Adam Erace explores the options at Adsum, where chef Matthew Levin is giving a big F.U. to fine dining. He digs the chef'sf original, accessible menu, peppered with creative strokes like popcorn puree, freeze-dried hickory smoke and Kool Aid-pickled watermelon. - New York Times columnist Mark Bittman has released The Food Matters Cookbook, a collection of 500 recipes designed around the Minimalist's eat-mostly-plants dietary plan. If you can get over your petty food grudges, you'll find that's it's a rather invaluable resource. - Rachel Burgos has plenty of food-event info for you in What's Cooking check details on SPTR's upcoming Farmhouse Ale dinner, word on Eagles specials at Percy Street and more. - JG Domestic, Biba and Blackbird are three of the openings outlined in the latest edition of Feeding Frenzy.

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DRINK THIS IMMEDIATELY: Golosa's Chai

POSTED: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 8:04 PM

Filed Under: Eat This Immediately

Photo | Adam Erace

tea time

La Golosa (806 S. 6th St.), the Bella Vista dessert boutique as effortlessly stylish as its Italian owner Fabio Scarpelli, is best known for chocolate, but just get a load of this masala chai I sipped from a crushed blue velvet chair there last night. Served in a gypsys crystal ball of a teapot, the teas haunting aromas snake forth form the spout. Cloves. Cardamom. Cinnamon. Five bucks might seem steapGet it? Steap!but pour out a spot of the black tea-and-steamed milk-based elixir and youll see the pricey spices flowing forward into the cup-top strainer. Drink this immediately!

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SNACK TIME: Chopping Block, Happy Thanksgiving, eh?, autumnal whites, TV casualty, hot dog we have a wiener!

POSTED: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 7:35 PM

Filed Under: Snack Time

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- Squeamish be warned: Here the New York Times compiles a short-yet-effective piece on 13 chefs and their most memorable injuries on the job. I may never chop again. - Kitchenist is a Canadian based in London whose recipes look mad tasty, and healthy too. I love her free-flowing ideas on what to do with her farmers market finds while celebrating her Thanksgiving away from home. I've been perusing her recipes and already have a mental list of what I'm going to make with my sprouts and squash. - Table Matters shares a tip on seasonal white wines, entitling their piece "planet of the grapes." I'm not clever enough to come up with a better name than that. Click, read, buy, drink, toast. - Love TV, food and trivia? Me too. Mental Floss compiled a quick quiz to see how well you know your celebrity chefs and their respective restaurants. Good luck! - Here I leave you with a page full of dogs in adorably amusing Halloween costumes, including a taco and a baked potato (!!!!!!). Get inspired & enjoy.

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Chestnut Hill's Night Kitchen Bakery expands

POSTED: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 6:32 PM

Filed Under: Food News

Courtesy of Night Kitchen Bakery

Chestnut Hill's Night Kitchen Bakery (7725 Germantown Ave.) recently expanded into an adjacent storefront, allowing for co-owner Amy Edelman to establish a display kitchen and a small cafe. Customers can now check out Night Kitchen's pastry chefs deep in decorating action Wednesday through Saturday; and while the storefront has always had a bit of space for walk-ins, the expansion means they can now accommodate around 16 people at any time. They've launched a new breakfast/lunch/brunch menu, featuring eats like parfait, sandwiches, salads and pizza, to coincide with the expansion. (La Colombe coffee, too.) Check out a few pics of the new space after the jump.

Courtesy of Night Kitchen Bakery

Roz Warren

Posted 2010-10-24 20:16:30

I've eaten there several times since it expanded. It's a great place to enjoy a light lunch with a friend. I recommend the pizza, which I had with carmelized onions and spinach (fresh!)And of course the amazing desserts are worth every calorie. Let's hope it thrives.

Ticket Stubs: Meal Ticket Weekly Recap, Oct. 11-15 :: Meal Ticket :: Food Blog :: Philadelphia City Paper

Posted 2010-10-18 11:04:10

[...] Chestnut Hill’s Night Kitchen Bakery grows in size and adds a café lunch menu. [...]

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Kraftwork gets Sidecar chef for keepsies

POSTED: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 5:10 PM

Filed Under: Chef Salad

Kraftwork on Flickr

Brian Lofink, the former Matyson chef who took over at The Sidecar (2201 Christian St.) a little more than a year ago, is now pulling double duty and running the show at Fishtown's Kraftwork (541 E. Girard Ave.), says Sidecar owner and Kraftwork operator Adam Ritter. Lofink is taking over indefinitely for Michael Thomas, who left his perch at the five-month-old bar to take a job with the still-to-come expanded 1 Shot Coffee in NoLibs. Lofink's already put his stamp on daily specials (here's his sheet from Monday), but Ritter says that you should expect to start seeing the chef's signatures all over the menu in the next three to four weeks.

Kraftwork’s new brunch menu :: Meal Ticket :: Food Blog :: Philadelphia City Paper

Posted 2010-12-03 16:58:18

[...] take a peek at the new brunch menu at Kraftwork (Girard and Montgomery), overseen by Brian Lofink, who recently took over kitchen duties at the Fishtown bar in addition to running the ship at its sister operation, The Sidecar (2201 Christian St.). K-Dubs [...]

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