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Archive: April, 2011
John Taus over at The Corner (102 S. 13th St.) started Sunday brunch (from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.) last weekend. Homemade scrapple, sausage, and duck pastrami, biscuits and gravy, the solid Corner burger and coffee and beignets rule the hungover day here — check out the full menu below (click to enlarge).
Roses are red, violets are blue, but only one of these flora are in season now, flashing regal purple petals in container gardens and shaded woodland right this very minute. Should you come across a carpet of violets while ramp foraging or be lucky enough to have a hook-up at Green Meadow Farm, which just began harvesting the flowers from their wild patch, GET THEM! Subtly sweet, herbaceous and floral without smelling like Great Aunt Gloria's boudoir, violets have been a personal favorite since tasting the violet ice cream Cathy Ansill used to spin back when her husband, Ladder 15 chef David Ansill, had his restaurant. (I still think about it from time to time ... ) The blue buds are a fave in France, where they're often candied. Make like a confectionaire extraordinaire with this easy recipe.
Krispy Kreme, which returned to the Philly market in November with a Fox Chase location, will open a Center City outpost at 41 S. 16th Street on May 4. The doughnut glazer is sweetening the deal for early adopters, too (and we mean early): The first customer through the new location's door when it opens at 6 a.m. will win one dozen free glazed doughnuts every week for a year. The next 11 customers after him/her (it'll probably be a dude right? just a hunch) will win one dozen free doughnuts every month for a year. From there, KK will hook up a number of patrons with free coffee coupons and T-shirts, and from 2 to 4:30 p.m., it's free doughnuts for all. This location will also offer eats like bagels, muffins, sweet rolls, organic oatmeal (!) and fruit and granola.
Chicken wing chain Wingstop is launching a limited-edition chicken sandwich this week: The GLIDER! Topped with pickles, the sauced-to-taste sandwich takes off today at noon at the Broad & Cecil B. Moore Wingstop location. You're welcome to bust out your Big City Slider Station (RIP Billy Mays) to try and create this wonderous innovation in slidery in your own home, but why not do yourself a favor and eatout Wingstop's version for free first? The Troy Aikman-approved restaurant, in partnership with 100.3 The Beat, will be giving out 103 Glider lunch combos, which include fries and a soda.
Photo: Wingstop on Twitter
Thanks to Meal Ticket reader Mike H. for submitting this WWE? teaser. Whatcha got? Where can one find this whimsical piece of art?
Rebecca Torpie thought she was done with the food business, she really did. The cupcake maven sold her Flying Monkey stand in RTM to Elizabeth Halen and her Flying Monkey Deuce café to Daniel Klein (Cake and the Beanstalk) under the impression that the tempestuous industry was behind her. But then a new opportunity came along, one she says she definitely couldn't pass up.
- Adam Erace visits Fathom Seafood House, where Mike Stollenwerk and chef de cuisine Robert Holloway are putting the fish back in Fishtown. Though some of the heavier fare busted our critic's gut (after one meal, he "didn't sto much step out into the gun-shy spring sunlight as waddle"), he's loving the simple innovation of the menu, and the well-stocked raw bar, too.
- Well, Clarice ... have the marzipan lambs stopping screaming? Carolyn Wyman shares some background on the Sicilian Easter specialty so rare they're rationed. Two places in South Philly make them from scratch for the Easter season — Isgro's and Varallo Bros.
- In Feeding Frenzy, details on the brand-new Pure Fare, the coming-soon Sawatdee and several closings of note, including Fork & Barrel and Horizons (this summer).
- Laurel Rose Purdy has your food/drink agenda for the coming week in What's Cooking, including a seafood class at Oyster House, a fried chicken party at The Institute and other good stuff.
Photo: Jessica Kourkounis
Circles (1516 Tasker St.), Newbold’s speedy Thai takeout/delivery operation and frequent answer to our hungry late-night prayers, makes its foray into the sit-down restaurant business next week (tentatively) with Circles Cafe. Located directly across the street from Circles in a former mini-mart, the 36-seat cafe will serve all-organic pastries, sandwiches, bubble tea and coffee drinks (chef/owner Alex Boonphaya is still debating between Goshen and Stumptown for the beans), plus the full Thai menu we’ve come to know and love (PUMPKIN CURRY!) from the Circles crew.
"There’s been a lot of demand for this from our loyal following," Boonphaya says, "and having a second business here will help continue to improve the neighborhood."
Planned hours at Circles Cafe are 7 a.m. through 10 p.m., every day but Monday. Boonphaya hopes they’ll open next week. In the meantime, follow Circles on Twitter for updates on the Cafe.
Photo: Adam Erace
After six months overhauling the kitchen at Fergie's (1214 Sansom St.), barbecue maestro Mark Coates of the sorely missed Bebe's is making good on a promise to enter the food truck race. "I stepped to the side because I had some other stuff I wanted to work on," Coates says of Fergie’s, which will still be serving the smokehouse staples that first won this Louisiana transplant local acclaim. "And I've been wanting to do a food truck forever." That desire has been chronicled here on Meal Ticket, and now it's confirmed that a mobile operation is indeed on the way.
Once a week (sorry, we missed a few weeks!), Team Meal Ticket shares its latest sugar-laden fixations. Do not tell our dentist.
IN QUESTION: Made by Nestlé and distributed most heavily overseas, the signature characteristic of the Aero chocolate bar is its pockmarked (aerated) filling, hundreds of little bubbles that make for interesting snacking. All those mini air pockets make it melt funny (especially when frozen), in an appealing sort of way. There are many flavours flavors flavours — classic milk chocolate, one with a caramel layer, a bunch of fruity varieties — but my fave is mint. Aero Bars are insanely popular in the U.K., like Helen Mirren's Bosom popular.
WHERE TO BUY: Seen them around, but this particular one was acquired in the U.K. section of the international aisle at Wegman's in Cherry Hill (2100 Rt. 70 West). I believe that it's located close to the "New Age Beverages" aisle, which IS THE STUPIDEST AISLE I'VE EVER SEEN GOD THAT AISLE MAKES ME SO MAD.
HOW MANY DO WE TYPICALLY EAT IN ONE SITTING: A serving size of one full bar is accepted and appropriate, especially considering much of the Aero bar is air, and you need air to live, so therefore Aero bars are necessary for living purposes. Logic, baby.
FINER POINTS: The Aero Bar's composition has actually helped Ford develop a new kind of plastic engine cover — one that's lighter, but still structurally sound — for its vehicles.
Photo: Drew Lazor
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