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Archive: April, 2011
Chef John Taus of The Corner (102 S. 13th St.) is teaming up with Flying Fish brewer Casey Hughes on Wednesday, April 20 (4/20 brah!) for a five-course beer-paired dinner, each plate featuring a boozy element worked right in. Hughes is still working out his pairings (here's to lots of Exit Series representation), but we've got Taus' menu for ya after the jump. Peep game.
UPDATE [11apr11]: The dinner will cost $55; we've updated the menu with Flying Fish's beer pairings.
The perma-polished ladies and gentlemen of Franklin Mortgage & Investment Co. (112 S. 18th St.) have designed a new cocktail list for the bar at Mitch and Jen Prensky's Supper (926 South St.), in exchange for Prensky putting together a small plate-style menu for the Center City cocktail bar. It hasn't launched just yet, but look out for the drinks detailed after the jump before the end of April. It's been some time since we've enjoyed a beverage named after a Zombies album, so we are quite excited.
Hasan Bukhari, who owns the Desi Village Indian restaurants (King of Prussia, West Philly) as well as Desi Chaat House locations in West Philly and in the Bellevue, is breaking into the coffeehouse fray with Mood Café, a corner space at 46th and Baltimore (formerly a Laundromat) that's slated to open in the second week of May. Bukhari says he'll carry an international selection of coffee and espresso, plus shakes, smoothies, ice cream and shaved ice/fruit purée drinks. The café, which has applied for an outdoor seating permit, will keep long hours (7 a.m.-10 p.m. daily).
Chef Michael Schulson of Sampan (124 S. 13th St.) is rolling out a brand-new dim sum-style brunch menu this spring. Made up of a host of brand-new small plates at a $6 price point, the menu includes the ever-sought-after soup dumplings, minted pork bao buns, corned beef, sauerkraut and smoked mustard char siu buns — and, for the daring, chicken feet! With an effort to make the brunch an authentic dining experience, plates will be served from a custom-built wooden cart rolled through the restaurant by staff.
Larger plates will also be included on the new menu: Snap up Spanish octopus satay, or an old fried favorite, crispy crab rangoon, along with more traditional American fare done Sampan-style, like Eggs Benedict with Berkshire pork belly and sriracha hollandaise. Beverage director Michael Wirzberger will be debuting two new sip-worthy cocktails to accompany the new men, too: a Yuzu-Rosewater Mimosa and a Togarashi Bloody Mary with fresh wasabi.
Sampan's new brunch menu will be available Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and all day on Sunday.
Photo: Felicia D'Ambrosio
- There are no flying plates and napkins to be found at Opa, the stylish new Midtown Village Greek eatery, but Adam Erace uncovers plenty to be jovial about. For starters: He's gone on record saying chef Andrew Brown's octopus is the best he's ever had.
- It's about damn time someone released The Encyclopedia of Sandwiches. Laurel Rose Purdy runs down Susan Russo's epic new tome dealing with all things betwixt bread.
- In What's Cooking, we've got info on a tasty Tex-Mex collab, a totally '80s dinner in South Philly (wedge salad holla!), info on a dollar empanada deal and more.
Photo: Neal Santos
Cheers to Philly's OG mix-a-six spot, The Foodery, for 35 big years in business! They're celebrating the big day, naturally, with tons of beer. At the Foodery's five-year-old NoLibs location (Second/Poplar), Sly Fox will host a tasting of beers and beer-infused snacks from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight. At the original 10th/Pine store, swing by between now and 5 p.m. for a home-brewing demo/sampling from Liberties Brew Club; then, from 5 to 7, Philadelphia Brewing Co. will share free beer samples, plus cheese and b-day cake. Once PBC wraps up, get your queso face on for a beer/cheese pairing "throwdown" between Di Bruno Bros. and Fair Food Farmstand that should run from 7 to 8 p.m. Oh Foodery, you're so grown up; it seemed like just yesterday we were blind-purchasing Piraat from you because it had a pirate on the label. Look at you now!
Those of us who lamented Cafe Estelle (444 N. Fourth St.) discontinuing dinner service, the p.m. potatoes to its brisk brunch meat, a few years back have reason to smile today. Chef/owner Marshall Green (above) is starting supper for the second time, making good on a long-ago promise. Devotees won't be able to pop in every evening, though; Green is doing dinner but once a month, promptly at 7 p.m. Tasting menu only, communal seating only. Twenty-five guests tops, so get those phones ready (215-925-5080). Consider this advance notice on the next two dates: April 25 ($70) and May 23 ($80). Check out the menus after the jump. Want. Foie/rhubarb. Duo. Now.
Center City's Noble (2025 Sansom St.) wants you to start doing your drinking with charity in mind. The Noble Cause — Absolut Citron, fresh lemon, creme de cassis and housemade ginger beer — is their new specialty cocktail, developed to raise money for fundraising group Team In Training. One of Noble's servers will be participating in the Philadelphia Triathlon on June 26, and as a way of showing support, the team will give a full 25 percent of the drink's $10 price tag directly to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The best part: owner Todd Rodgers plans to make the charity cocktail a mainstay of Noble's drink menu, featuring a rotating cast of foundations and correspondingly modified drink ingredients.
The extremely fun-to-say Yogen Früz infiltrated the local frozen-yogurt market on Phillies Opening Day with kiosks in Citizens Bank Park. The Canadian brand (there are more than 1,200 locations globally), spearheaded in this area by franchisees Michael Geonnotti and Ron Perruzza, has a simple hook — instead of topping yogurt or sorbet with cut fruit, Yogen Früz blends its fruit (blueberry, mango, strawberry, raspberry, banana) directly into low-fat vanilla and low-fat chocolate yogurts, or fat-free sorbet. Though the Phillies' stadium will serve as home base for the Früz crew for right now, there is talk of expanding the kiosk concept into fully realized cafés in the tri-state area in the coming months.
Thanks to the Meal Ticket tipster who sent along this fresh shot, indicating a Thai restaurant is going into what was, until recently, Pico de Gallo at 15th and South. (We haven't been able to nail down exactly who's behind it just yet, but we'll figure it out.) Nice get for the G-Ho/Southwest Center City neighborhood, which just landed an Indian restaurant Indian Restaurant, as well. More info soon.
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