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Archive: May, 2010
Filed Under: Food Events | Food TV
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- Hurley's "Mr. Cluck"" Mexi-Special: fried flour tortilla topped with Spanish rice with achiote grilled chicken, chorizo, tomatoes, bell peppers, black beans and chilies. Finished with fried eggs, tomatillo-mango pico de gallo and lime sour cream.
- Charlie's You All Everybody" Egg White Omelet: with roasted sweet potatoes, grlled fennel, onions, arugula, basil and sharp cheddar cheese.
- Dharma Initiative Breakfast Special: bobota bread with olives and rosemary topped with scrambled eggs with fresh spinach, feta cheese and roasted eggplant, grilled turkey sausage, topped with artichoke-plum tomato-red onion chutney and cucumber dill sour cream.
i'm pretty sure Cantina Dos Segundos has a party going down... got an invite fia facebook
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[...] McGinnis, who along with Brian McManus makes up the culinary team Spinal Tapas (we wrote about their Beer Week event last week), tells Meal Ticket he’s been hired as the culinary director of Philly Kitchen Share (1514 [...]
Filed Under: Dealage
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I went on Saturday and dropped "Throwback" and they looked at me like I had two heads. Two solid sandwiches though and decent fries. Kinda bummed my secret password didn't work.
This place seriously rocks!
Filed Under: Booze | Philly Beer Week 2010
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[...] does Yards Brawler for Philly Beer Week• Buy-one, get-one sandwiches at Jake's through May• June 9: Craft Beer Express Version 2.0• SNACK TIME: World's sexiest water, a nice midday Fork-ing, Starr's gastropub plans, tacos [...]
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Filed Under: Openings
Collingswood chef Alex Capasso, who's won plenty of praise for his Blackbird Dining Establishment (check out Trey Popp's '07 review), just opened West Side Gravy at 714 Haddon Avenue (856-858-7153).
While the dining experience at Blackbird is marked with the uncommon touches that've earned Capasso looks from the James Beard folks and elsewhere, the 95-seat BYO serves straightforward, "classic American food." The restaurant, which right now opens for lunch at 11 a.m. daily (dinner coming in a few weeks) offers between six and eight small plates, a few salads, six to eight sandwiches and around six large plates — but "just because this is a casual concept with an inexpensive price point doesn't mean it's an excuse to sub-par products," stresses Capasso. He's still tweaking his menu, but expect eats like a BLT with crispy pancetta, smoked bacon, butter lettuce, marinated tomatoes and tarragon mayo; fried chicken and potato salad; meatloaf sandwiches; and an angus/balsamic roast pork/seared ahi tuna slider trio. The most expensive item on the menu is $18.
I had those sliders for lunch today!
[...] at Alex Capasso’s West Side Gravy in Collingswood (714 Haddon Ave.). The comfort-food BYO, which opened in May, now has a menu featuring a few of Allgood’s signature touches, including Baja-style fish [...]
[...] Avenue and reopening at 714 Haddon Avenue, a shared address with Capasso’s recently opened West Side Gravy. Capasso plans on bringing the price point down a little for the restaurant, slated to debut in its [...]
Filed Under: Food News
After what seemed like a century (OK, five weeks) of waiting to see who'd get the spot at the top of Grub Street Philly's foodie editorship, the gig has gone to Collin Keefe. He'll start this Monday.
The local writing vet has done the deed for Woodshop Films/Scrapple TV, PW, Profile Public Relations and this here City Paper ("not to mention spending a few weeks learning how to make sausages and charcuterie with the chefs at Vetri," says Keefe) before taking the reins of the blog Kirsten Henri left behind; she recently moved to Philadelphia mag to helm its food section. "Kirsten Henri left some big shoes to fill at Grub Street Philadelphia,â says Keefe. "My goal is to maintain the high standard of reporting that she set to make the site so popular."
While he's coy as to say what his first story will be this Monday, I can tell you that Grub Street saved Keefe from a life of sausage stuffing. Silver linings, that.
That's Collin with 2 L's! He's got a complex about that always-forgotten 2nd L, so you better get it right!
Yay for Collin! This is a perfect match. Congrats!
[...] Collin Keefe will be the new editor of Grub Street Philadelphia. Keefe comes at the job with a wide range of experience from public relations to sausage stuffing. [Meal Ticket] [...]
We first told you about Le Cochon Noir, the BBQ/live music venue out by the Mann Center, last summer. Back then, owner Jamal M. Parker said he hoped to be finished with an outdoor-to-indoor expansion back the fall of 2009. Your typical Philly paperwork trip-ups knocked that back a bit, but Parker is now confident he'll have his 7,000-square-foot space ready to go before the end of June. UPDATE [26may10]: Here are Le Cochon Noir's menus.
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The outside of the venue (5070 Parkside Ave.), tucked into the demure Philadelphia Business and Technology Center, is unassuming — but it doesn't take long to realize just how ambitious of a project it really is. Le Cochon Noir started as an outdoor-only venue with an auxiliary kitchen on the grassy area outside the Center, but now that it's got this address, the plan is to turn it into a premier spot for live jazz, blues and foreal-foreal barbecue-influenced fare. (The restaurant is about 5 minutes off the Girard exit on 76.)
The high-ceilinged warehouse space features table and booth seating and a 22-foot stage with custom lighting and sound systems; Parker will book locally during the week and seek out national names on weekend nights. There's an in-the-works triangular bar that'll eventually feature sliding garage door access to the outside, where there'll be a stage featuring Caribbean steel-drum performances. Parker is also planning an elevated, glass-enclosed 2,600-bottle wine storage unit so large it'll actually be able to accommodate a 15- to 20-person table that can be used for tastings.
A massive open kitchen boasts a bestial Southern Pride smoker that chef Christopher Maguire — he's earned tons of BBQ accolades in the annual Tom Monaghan and Garry Maddox cook-offs — will use to prep his dry-rubbed meats (it can handle as many as 100 racks of ribs in a single sitting). The menu's still being finalized, but Parker has built up a rapport with a farmer in upstate Pennsylvania that'll provide Le Cochon Noir with its namesake — high-end Berkshire pork they'll serve as French-cut chops. The menu will also feature Southern-influenced grub, high-end seafood (think Dover sole and Scottish salmon) and organic-chocolate desserts. A chef's table off to one side of the stage will be available for customized five-course tastings
Parker got his start in restaurants in Philly — in the early days he bussed tables at Downey's and later managed Baci Bistro, which is now Italian Bistro, at 211 S. Broad. He was most recently general sales manager at Clear Channel Radio, working with Power 99, Q102 and Radio 104.5. Before radio, he spent close to a decade in Las Vegas as a director of restaurant operations and labor relations manager for Bally's Casino.
This is just what Philly has been needing for an extremely long time, bring on a fresh venue with a worldwide appeal and a touch of class
BBQ and jazz--that's genius! Also, I love the cool-looking vibe of the space.
Myself and all of the other local music artists are hoping for the continued success of this great venue and of course, for more work. CONGRATULATIONS JAMAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ella Gahnt & Leon Mitchell
A place with space to chill, with good music and good food. Refreshing and long overdue! Best, Nina
[...] “light fare” menus for Jamal Parker’s Le Cochon Noir (5070 Parkside Ave.), the restaurant and music venue we featured a week back. They’ll start serving pig in soft-open mode next Friday, June [...]
***JUST ANNOUNCED*** Beyonce Knowles' Trumpet player, Crystal Torres, performing live at Le Cochon Noir Sat., Jun 5th.
We've hungered for a jazz club since the original Zanzibar Blue went upscale, and then bust. Borgia, Jewel's and Trey's just memories now, and even Ortlieb's gone away... what a find Le Cochon Noir is!!! If you love your jazz sacred, and don't mind a great meal into the bargain, Cochon Noir is the place for you. The West Parkside location is central, easy to find and even offers free on-site parking steps from the front door. Jamal treats his customers like royalty. Liz (our server) was upbeat and professional, watched over us and never imposed. $164 for a GREAT meal for four adults, plus 90 minutes of pure, inspired playing from 5 distinctive soloists - who could ask for anything more? Le Cochon Noir is Jazz Paradise. And the food is a very, very close second.
Wonderful place! I spent my 26th Birthday there with my better half and we enjoyed ourselves to the fullest. Each course was excellent and the service was amazing. Can't wait to go back!! I plan to become a bi-weekly customer!
Amazing that you leave out Chris' Jazz Cafe and Time Midtown, both on Sansom one block in from Broad Street East & West. Best food and jazz combo I have experienced in Philly for a long time! I liked Le Cochon Noir, but for a center city patron, tis is just too far off my beaten track to visit again....maybe once or twice a year if I get a ride! Wish Le Cochon Noir was in center city and not out on Parkside.
Glad your in parkside! A huge treat folks that don't live in center city. Keep it going!
Filed Under: Openings
John McGillion, who owns a multitude of bars in New York and elsewhere (Crocodile Lounge in Gramercy, Alligator Lounge in Williamsburg, etc.), is about two weeks away from opening a Philly branch of the Crocodile at 110 Chestnut, the former home of Moda/Odium.
Before we get into details on the space, it's important that we address the heat-blistered elephant in the room. Here's the deal: At Crocodile Philly, you'll receive a ticket for every drink you order (they'll have eight beers on tap). You walk that ticket over to the pizza bar in the back, which is decked out with a wood-burning oven. Turn that ticket in and you get a free slice of plain pizza. It's pizza! It's free! Free pizza! (If you want toppings, it'll cost you a buck or two depending on what you get.)
Sorry.
Though the free pizza shtick is perhaps the ultimate drunkard draw (we're told the innovation literally tripled overall sales the first time it was introduced in New York), it'll be far from the only thing the Crocodile offers. The bilevel space, which is being handled by bar-building wizard Joe Konrad (Memphis Taproom, Local 44, Resurrection Ale House, etc.), will feature exposed original brick, a beautiful mahogany bar, a smattering of stool and booth seating, a stage for live performances and a 50-inch plasma to catch games (free "Phanatic" shots to every patron when a Phillie hits a homer). The upstairs level, which'll be called Wetbar, will be vibe-y (LED paneling), catering toward a slightly more lounge-y, martini-sipping crowd. Room for about 174 people between the two floors. Aside from the free pizza deal, they'll also do a very small, very affordable selection of salads, soups and panini.
Michael Aloysious Kingston, aka "Mak," a Philly bar vet, will run the space, and hopes to organize folk, jazz and acoustic nights on a weekly basis. He tells Meal Ticket that the bar's unofficial motto is to be "most things to most people," catering to multiple crowds. A soft opening is set for Thursday, June 3, with a grand opening event slated for later in the month.
Very sweet, i thought this place was genius when a friend of mine introduced us on a visit to NYC. You can't go wrong with the combo of beer and pizza. And i've gone back to my roots and love plain cheese with a passion.
What about ski ball?!
+1. Crocodile Lounge for me has always been beer+pizza+ski ball. You are a winner!
when you pay $10 for a drink I sure hope the pizza is free.
Beers were in the $5-7 range at Crocodile when I was last there about a month ago. I am guessing they'll be about a buck cheaper in Philly.
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