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Archive: June, 2010
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[...] Hello all! We recently wrapped up a sweet project for Call Me Cupcake. There is a new cupcake truck in town, and they needed to stand out from the crowd. So the Brand’s team went to work on turning this former mail truck into a cupcake mobile. We think it turned out pretty excellent, but have a look for yourself!Check out the Call Me Cupcake truck featured in the City Paper! [...]
[...] here to read the rest: Call Me Cupcake in pictures :: Meal Ticket :: Food Blog … Posted by admin on June 22nd, 2010 Tags: cupcakes, around-the-various, david, david-dilks, [...]
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by uwishunu and Meal Ticket, Meal Ticket. Meal Ticket said: Couple pics of the @CallMeCupcake truck: http://bit.ly/dy7jte [...]
This is a cheap imitation of the Buttercream Philadelphia Cupcake Truck. Their cupcakes are subpar at best, and this is such an obvious rip off its offensive.
These are the best cupcakes I have ever had!!!!!
Filed Under: Dealage | Food Events
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Nice! We'd already booked a babysitter for tonight and were looking for something to do. I think we found it.
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Allison Krumm, Meal Ticket. Meal Ticket said: All-you-can-eat sushi returns tonight at Pod: http://bit.ly/bkruWB [...]
We went. Very good service, very good food. Sake mojito special was quite nice. Meter parking was adequate--within a block--being Tuesday evening. We made a reservation on OpenTable, and while the place was far from empty, there didn't seem to be a wait to sit at 7:30. One note: the server didn't mention wine other than sake as part of the special (nor did we ask).
Filed Under: Weird Regional Foods
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You can find great flaczki at the New Wave Cafe on Allgheny and Mercer Streets in Port Richmond
[...] - Who does flaczki in Philly? [22jun10] [...]
Filed Under: Notes from the Weekend
+1 on Four Roses, did the Kentucky Bourbon trail earlier this year, Four Roses was the overall fav
Friday night, by the grace of god, some great friends and I got a table for five at Tomatoes in Margate. That place never disappoints. We split the calamari, the burrata (NEW!) and some special crab empanadas in avocado sauce. All of which we made disappear in no time flat. I had lobster tail and three shrimp in a cream sauce on corn salsa (reasonably priced!) which was even better than it sounds. Also tried my friend's soft shell crab, my other friends short rib and had some sushi. FTR, the sushi there is fantastic. We finished up with banana cream pie, key lime pie, and their peanut butter pie (which rules). I also kinda sorta remember talking to my friends, but my mind was on eating off of their plates.
joose prevented the paella food coma1!!
Cricket tossed off the sticky shackles of Philadelphia to get some shore time in this weekend... Friday was pizza too bad to mention, though the garlic knots and sauteed spinach salvaged the meal. After a lovely day at the beach (the breeze! the bikinis!), we strapped on our pearls for an early Father's Day dinner at Klein's in Belmar, where the cherrystone clams on the half shell made everyone happy. Had some white-boy sushi that sufficed. Made it home for some quality time with Pop on Sunday, and he seemed well-pleased with the bottle of Compass Box Hedonism he was gifted with for giving life to Cricket. He even shared!
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Friday I had a low key dinner at Los Amigos in Berlin, NJ. My soft-shell crab tacos, I'm sure, were no match for DL's Maryland crab feast, but they were spectacularly spicy and soft-shell crabs now rank in my top five taco fillings with the elite company of short rib and pork belly. Saturday was awholelotta drinking in the insane heat during a Phillies tailgate. I was enjoying dousing the heat with Dogfish Head 60min IPA so I didn't feel it necessary to actually head in to the game. Sidenote: It's upsetting that a 4-pack of 90min costs the same, maybe slightly more, than a 6-pack of 60min. I love my Dad and he loves the beach so that's where we went for Father's Day. We ate at Raimondo's which isn't awful, but its menu closely resembles every other restaurant menu on the island. I miss Blue. Come back, please.
I love the name Tomatoes.
Your Jooze experience reminded me...during a serene game of CLUE after dinner on Friday night a friend burst into hysterics which could only be explained by his chugging of a watermelon Four-Luko, a drink scarily similar to Jooze. I believe this is mostly reserved for underage drinkers but he, for some reason, needed to try it. He was buggin.
There was some discussion of the merits of Joose vs. Four Loko. I'm not sure if it's something I want to get to the bottom of.
"like fruit-flavored ore" That is beautiful, Drew.
"like RIBBONS of fruit-flavored ore", I meant. The Joose has killed my brain cells.
Went to Percy Street to celebrate a friend's day of birth. We all got the Lockhart (that would be EVERYTHING, plus dessert). I skipped dessert and I was still so full that I couldn't eat the next day, which is probably a good thing considering my mom's Dad's Day meal was Cincinatti Skyline Chili as an ode to his Ohio home. It's the most Midwestern version of chili you can think of (really sweet, not a lot of spice, on top of spaghetti). I'm sure it was great (don't yell at me mom!) but I passed because I was still in a blissful meat coma.
Took home and split 80 wings with five friends at the Jug Handle Inn (Cinnaminson, NJ). These wings have all sorts of accolades--even Joy Behar squawked from her talk show perch that they were the best in the country. That seems a bit hyperbolic if you ask me, but they were damn good. The medium, hot honey, and honey bbq were crispy and moist; the sauces were awesome. As for the bald eagle wings, which are their hottest, they may have tasted good, I'm not sure. They were so hot that I couldn't really taste much. Nonetheless, I'm certainly going back. For Father's Day, I took my dad and family to Bistro St. Tropez (dads got 14 oz. ribeye entrees for free). We all enjoyed our mains enough, but the starters were definitely the highlight. My dad's duck terrine was delicious, and my sweet breads were the best I've had. Good wine, too.
friday did some grilling on a generous friend's roofdeck. chicken sausage, bbq chicken sandwiches, red skin potatoes and some regular hebrew national hotdogs. dessert was pound cake with strawberries and whipped cream. finished up the night at mac's in old city. good music and surprisingly good beer list. started the day with bagels from hot bagel on south street. everything with veggie cream cheese left me wanting seconds. after a disappointing phillies loss (and equally as disappointing vanilla milkshake), headed down to margate where my well-prepared mother had bobby chez crabcakes waiting for me and the boy. not a lot of filler and whole lot of crab...maybe not maryland crabs, but i take what i can get. a few bites of wawa mint chocolate chip ice cream and i was in heaven. sunday started eating any leftovers i could find at my mom's and then at my grandfather's, to not much avail. ended the weekend perfectly though, at robert's place. stone crab claws, clams casino, ribs and fries. followed it up with two cents plain...made for high calorie perfection.
âFoods We'd Like to Take a Nap Inside Of, If Such a Thing Was Possible.â I actually laughed out loud on PATCO. And I was standing up, in the middle of the car, coz I had a bicycle. And everyone looked at me. And I wished then that PATCO had a widescreen monitor at each end, and that each rider could vie for access, and that I won for a bit and could connect my phone and show them what I was laughing at... Anyway. Sunday ate food from the grill and salad -- didn't matter what it was because a day on the beach makes you hungry as hell and the food tasted like heaven!
Had an awesome birthday dinner at Fish on Friday. Got lobster paillard for starters and it was so good that I want to go back just for that. The entrees were yummy too but I gotta say that I don't love the actual space. It feels kind of boring and uncomfortable. Food is excellent though. Saturday meant back to Maryland! Crabs, Paella, grilled veggies, oh my! And the Joose was awesome. I'm not crazy about grape flavored things but in my opinion the purple joose (called Dragon Joose!!!) was superior to the red joose. The Joose is Loose! Sunday was another good day of eating- beet salad and mimosas at South Phily Tap Room, Root and ginger ales at the Pope and then an always amazing La Rosa potato pizza for dinner. Yummmmmmmmmmmmm.
A big fat FU to the spelling gods.
let me know when the research begins so I can hook it up...this hole-in-the-wall joint by my house has the world's largest supply of Four-Luko. Sometimes I can't believe the things I say about where I live.
I chugged Four Loko's out of a beer bong this weekend....word of addvice: Don't beer bong Four Loko it's no joko!
Potato pizza!!!!
I've unfortunately sampled joose. It tastes like pez and meth. and broken dreams.
Confused. Why is this an FU? Tomatoes is the correct spelling. Am I missing an inside joke here?
Nevermind. Just looked up their website and saw the apostrophe. I truly hope that's intentional.
i feel totaly out of the loop, i have no idea what jooze is. LOL! i went to Central PA and ate like a pig at Knoebels this wknd. check out the write up on the great food of Knoebels http://foodrulez.com/2010/06/20/noshin-down-the-park/
i want to be the (out of) control subject for this science experiment.
I could not agree more about the decor of fish. I don't understand what they were thinking during the design phase! Did you see the wall that is painted the color of peanut butter??? Despite all those negative thoughts I do really love the food and I think the ( live ) fish in the bathroom is cute.
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[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Drew Lazor, Meal Ticket. Meal Ticket said: Munish Narula, owner of @TiffinIndian, shares some details about his new project on Broad Street: http://bit.ly/9W2T9x [...]
I'm drawing a complete blank on a name suggestion (it's deadline day, my brain is like mud) but I am super stoked to have anything Tiffin in South Philly. Is this a BYO concept or do those small plates rate a bar?
They will have a liquor license. My bad!
This is so exciting! It's a ten minute walk form my place and I'm really excited about the healthy approach!
[...] Indian small plates? Munish Narula on his new sorta-South-Philly restaurant [Meal Ticket] Tiffin going into 777 S. Broad St. [The Insider] geopress_addEvent(window,"load", function() { geopress_makemap(164271,"",39.941224,-75.16585,"google",Mapstraction.ROAD, { pan: true, zoom: 'small', overview: false, scale: false, map_type: false },15) }); [...] [...] Narula’s also working on the upscale concept for the 777 S. Broad building, which you can read about in more detail here. Bryn Mawr gets a [...]
[...] Tashan, the in-the-works Indian restaurant from Tiffin’s Munish Narula (777 S. Broad St.), is sparing no expense when it comes to its tandoor ovens. He and chef Sylva Senat recently traveled to London to check out wares from The Clayoven Group, which specializes in the awesome-blossom mosaic tandoors seen above. The ovens, the first of their kind in the United States, will be the centerpiece of Tashan’s kitchen. As of now the restaurant is slated to open in the early spring; head here for some prelim details. Hot tandoori action for Tashan [...]
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[...] Chatting with The Spice Necklace author Ann Vanderhoof. [...]
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[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by You Post, Meal Ticket. Meal Ticket said: Chat with author Ann Vanderhoof, who'll be in Philly Thursday for an island-themed @FirstPersonArts Edible World event: http://bit.ly/aPtqc2 [...]
I've just finished The Spice necklace and absolutely loved it. My husband and I have been visiting the islands since the early 80's with Dominica being our 'coming home' island. Ann has exactly captured the essence of the islands; the people, cultures, and of course the food. The way she describes the driving is spot on too!
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One episode of Top Chef Las Vegas featured a Quickfire challenge requiring the contestants to cook a dish based on a television program. Which TV show was Jennifer Carroll assigned? (Clue: This answer can be found somewhere in the Meal Ticket archives.)
UPDATE: Holy quick draw! A scintillating seven minutes after we posted, reader Samantha checked in with the right answer: The Flintstones. Here's the Meal Ticket post featuring the answer, plus Tom Colicchio's head Photoshopped onto lots of other people's bodies. Have fun tonight!
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Filed Under: Booze
It's the most wonderful time of the year, at least for drunks like us: This year's Festina Peche, Dogfish Head's inconceivably delicious seasonal "neo Berliner Weisse" brewed with puréed peaches, has finally infiltrated Philly six-pack stores and beer bars. Above, Dogfish founder Sam Calagione discusses 2010's Peche, which is slightly less pucker-up tart than last year's batch.
Both City Tap House (3925 Walnut St.) and Ladder 15 (1528 Sansom St.) will be tapping kegs of the stuff today, and fellow pecheheads have mentioned to us that it's currently pouring at Kraftwork (Girard and Montgomery) and Standard Tap (Second and Poplar), too. Holler in the comments if/when you see it other places.
Strangely, we first became obsessed with this beer sidled up to a bar quite far from the tri-state: Last fall, during a trip to Portland, Maine, the entire staff of the excellent bar/restaurant Local 188 declared it their prime fermented obsession. It took us just one pint to agree, but we ended up having 10 or so more to confirm.
Food and Friends (20th and Spruce) has four packs. I noticed that this year's brew doesn't seem to have the peach sediment at the bottom of the bottle like last year's. Still packs a punch, though!
Nice Tim! I should also mention: Got a four-pack at Latimer Deli last night. And have also been told it's floating around at Sidecar, Hawthornes and Brew/Ultimo Coffee.
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Got a growler at Hawthornes on Wednesday nite and it was nice nice.
I love festina peche, it will get me through the next week of 90-degree days. I plan on buying a case at Springfield Beer distributor, they're selling it in the $37-a-case range.
[...] Dogfish Head’s Festina Peche is all over Philly and we are very happy. [...]
on tap at alfa! @ 1709 walnut st.
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Monday, June 14
Think you can eat 33 tacos in 13 minutes? Prove it at Drinker's.
Awwwz, Nabi the Foodery Cat has Facebook! We're friends.
First Notes from the Weekend with a badass new camera. It hasn't had any effect on the crappy writing, unfortunately.
Tuesday, June 15
What was Ava will now be called Olive.
The dry pepper crab dish at Han Dynasty is something you should eat immediately.
We hit up The Continental for Happy Hour Hopper.
Wednesday, June 16
Somebody accuses the Belgian Cafe of underage injustice, and the Belgian Cafe responds.
Think Citizens Bank Park needs a seventh-inning-stretch Tastykake race?
Stephen Starr is teaming up with Aimee Olexy of Talula's Table for a very cool-sounding "pop-up restaurant."
Nana Petrillo's, serving Capogiro gelato, is now open in The Piazza at Schmidts.
Thursday, June 17
Philly's cupcake truck scene is suddenly a little more crowded.
The Franklin is fixin' to debut a half-price cocktail menu for the summer.
Top Chef D.C. just started, and that means the return of our horrible Top Chef recaps!
Friday, June 18
Kanella starts Sunday dinner hours with meze-style plates.
Mark your calendar for June 28: There's an intense bartender shindig at Oyster House.
We kick it on a mountain with Michael Solomonov, David Katz and Peter Woolsey.
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Chefs need to get away sometimes, too. But that necessarily doesn't mean they take a break from cooking.
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