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Archive: June, 2011
The Food Trust is taking its popular Night Market series to Northwest Philly for its next installment, scheduled for Thursday, August 4. It'll happen in Mt. Airy, on Germantown Avenue between Sedgwick Street and and Mt. Airy Avenue. No solid details on which restaurants, food trucks, entertainers and so forth will be in attendance, but keep an eye on nightmarketphilly.org for more.
If you've never attended a Night Market, check out Meal Ticket's recaps of the first two events, in South Philly and West Philly.
- Sansom Street's 1518 Bar & Grill is on the review block this week, and Adam Erace spends most of his time trying to figure out what concept the mixed-up restaurant is actually going for. Gastropub? Mediterreanean kitchen? Neighborhood bar? Smokehouse?! This is confusing.
- We check out the healthy and meticulously codified menu at Pure Fare to find that there is plenty of tasty stuff on the menu, whether you're an aggressive carb and calorie tracker or not.
- In Feeding Frenzy: Word on Serafina, Lulu's Pizza Bar and a new La Colombe location, plus quick hits on Horizons and Sbraga.
- In What's Cooking: Details on tonight's Thursday Night Throwdown at OCF, plus the rundown on other upcoming food/drink events.
Photo: Neal Santos
Hot Diggity! (630 South St.), the gourmet wiener distributor we first told you about in mid-May, opened over the weekend. Chef Keith Garabedian, who co-owns with longtime friends Tom Zmijewski, Sean Kendall and Matt Anderson, oversees a menu of 10 different hot dog options, broken down in full-color illustrated glory above the order counter via art from Philly artist Hawk Krall, Drawing for Food blogger and author of Serious Eats' Hot Dog of the Week column.
Local artist/performer Beth Beverly is heading up a new story first-person storytelling series with a kanpai twist. Every other Saturday, she hosts A Story for your Supper at Tokio Sushi Bar (124 Lombard St.) off Headhouse Square. It works like this: Show up in the area of 7 to 7:30 Saturday night and grab a seat. Once the crowd's up to snuff, Beverly will introduce a featured storyteller for the evening, who'll weave a tale based around a specific theme. (The last installment, on June 11, featured stories about pets; this Saturday's theme will be "Close Encounters of the Third Kind.") Once he or she finishes speaking (think short, 2-5 minutes), members of the audience are welcome to hop up and spit a little game of their own. It's worth your while, too: "If your story is agreed by everyone else to be the best story of the night, your dinner is free," says Beverly. "And you get a free shot of sake just for telling a story." We should mention that admission is free, too. Get those Fire in the Sky abduction tales ready.
JAR Bar, the raw-foods cafe from Joel Odhner and Jennifer Richmond, is on track to open next month at 113 S. 12th Street. In addition to serving snacks "cooked" below the 180-degree mark, JAR will also be the bricks-and-mortar home of the two-year-old Catalyst Cleanse system, a toxins-be-gone treatment that involves a series of unpasteurized fruit and vegetable juices. CC offers three-, four- and five-day juice cleanses; some include healthy snacks like hummus and kale salad, but hardcore practitioners go juice-only, cameling through six of the raw tonics in sequential order a day. (Shouts to the carrot/apple/celery/lemon/lime No. 3 — refreshing!) The three-day cleanse is $180 ($200 if you want it delivered), with pickups at 17th and Spring Garden and in Bryn Mawr and Huntington Valley until the 12th Street store opens. So who'd like to laugh at our attempted Cleanse failure sponsor us? Our abused guts could use a breather.
We've got a Philly representative on tonight’s episode of Food Network's Chopped: Olivier Desaintmartin, chef/owner of Caribou Café (1126 Walnut St.) and Zinc (246 S. 11th St.). A native of Champagne and card-carrying member of Maitres Cuisiniers de France, Desaintmartin first came to the States in the late '80s to work at NYC's Le Bernardin, landing in Philly and putting down roots in 1989; tonight, he'll take on three chefs from New York. The episode, which airs at 10, will apparently feature mystery ingredients like tequila and corn tortillas (what is a Frenchman to do?). Desaintmartin joins local chefs like Eric Paraskevas of Terra, Mackenzie Hilton of Mercato, Jeremy Duclut of georges', Peter Karapanagiotis (formerly of Privé) and Judson Branch of Thirteen in trying his hand on the cook-off show.
Photo: restaurantreport.com
Jessica Leung hit up Taste of the Nation at the Loews Hotel yesterday evening, camera in hand, to take in the scene. Here's her report from the event, a fundraiser for the national non-profit Share Our Strength.
Our first president did more than just command an army and run a country: George Washington was also widely known as a master brewer and one mean whiskey distiller. In an effort to relive those days of soused glory, the National Constitution Center (525 Arch St) will host General George's Beer Garden on the center's outdoor terrace next Thursday, June 30, from 5 to 8 p.m. Drink pints of Yards' General George's Tavern Porter, order up Jack Daniel whiskey cocktails and colonial-inspired food and take in "Discover the Real George Washington: New Views from Mount Vernon," the NCC's new exhibition, before it opens to the public. You can also see how much you've retained (or haven't) from elementary and high school by taking a stab at some George-themed Quizzo. Also note that's almost July 4, and that's just one more reason to celebrate history by shoving our faces full of food and downing tons of beer. Call 215-409-6700 or RSVP online.
Notes from the Weekend is a Monday feature that sees the members of Team Meal Ticket compiling all the food/drink highlights uncovered during prime eatin' time, Friday to Sunday. Consider this a place for good deals, great dishes, wicked cocktails, recipe triumphs (and tragedies), bizarro conversations and more. We're eager to share our notes, but especially excited to read yours.We encourage you to leave notes from YOUR weekend in the comments. Have at it! (View past NFTW installments at citypaper.net/notes.)
Starting at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 21, Fish (1708 Lombard St.) is teaming up with Italy's coolest brewmaster — Iacopo Lenci (above), owner of Tuscany's Brùton Brewery. Lenci may have been raised as part of an acclaimed winemaking family, but he’s long been known for bending and breaking the rules. Lenci, in collaboration with his father, can be found most days pouring non-traditional craft beers and booking shows at his Tuscan brewpub. Well, not tomorrow — just this once, Fish will step away from pairing wines with their seafood and let this slim punk rock dude with giant sideburns run the show. As the $80, six-course meal unfolds, diners will be able to try specialties such as a king crab dish with Lenci's Bianca (an Italian blonde wheat) and wild boar and salmon with Momus (a malty dark amber ale), all while jamming out to music and learning from one of the biggest personalities in the Italian craft beer movement. Space is limited to just 30 guests and we've told there are only a few spots left; call 215-545-9600 to reserve.
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