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Archive: June, 2011
Check out newly Beard-minted chef Michael Solomonov of Zahav talk about his background on this "Platelist" segment on the ABC Nightly News. Peep him doing his best Turbo and Ozone at the end there, too.
Sweet Elizabeth's (4409 Main St.) has rolled out the red-velvet carpet for the Ridge-and-Lincoln set. Owners are husband and wife Liz and Owen Paradiso (right), Manayunk residents for the past five years. Liz handles the baking, a grad of the CIA and Johnson & Wales who’s committed to sourcing her confections' milk, eggs and fruit from local farmers and baking without shelf-life-prolonging chemical stabilizers. Bespoke wedding cakes are Paradiso's big biz, but the bakeshops serves all manner of mousse, cookie and cupcake, the lattermost in flavors like "Senor Chipotle" (chocolate chipotle cake, Mexican spiced ganache, candied chilies) and "Circus" (roasted banana cake, salted caramel filling, hazelnut buttercream, kettlecorn topping). Check out Sweet Elizabeth’s for Father’s Day this weekend; Paradiso is baking beer and bacon cupcakes. Who’s got a babydoll I can borrow?
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.)
Restaurateur Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group has officially announced its intention to open an outpost of its unflappable Shake Shack in Philadelphia, at 2000 Sansom Street. The moderately priced burger/dog/fry/shake brand, founded in 2004, has six locations location in New York City, and recently expanded to Miami and Saratoga. The near future will see the debut of Philly's Shack, plus a location inside Nationals Park in D.C. (which already has one) and two overseas in Dubai and Kuwait City. Don't get too amped up for Shack Stacks and Bird Dogs to infiltrate our area code just yet, though — USHG has earmarked "the second half of 2012" for our Shack's debut, so, as is the case with the lunch-hour line in Madison Square Park, you're gonna have to wait awhile.
This weekend I had the great pleasure of sitting in as a judge at the first-ever A Full Plate Chili Cook-Off, held on Saturday, June 4 at Liberty Lands in NoLibs. Us judges — Taylor High from Mac & Cheese, Lily Cope from Cook, Anne Karlen of Fair Food, Anna Goldfarb of Shmitten Kitten, and radio personality Bill Anderson — were tasked with picking the best amateur and professional entries in the categories of red chili, white chili and vegan chili. Full rundown of winners after the jump; check out Mac & Cheese's recap, too.
Photos: Drew Lazor
Chef Clark Gilbert should having Gemelli on Main, the Manayunk-based rebirth of his Narberth BYOB, open by the latter part of this month. Taking over the real estate at 4161 Main Street vacated by Moon Krapugthong's MangoMoon, Gemelli on Main will be much bigger than its original Narberth digs (the space is bilevel) and will have a liquor license. Gilbert plans on serving dinner seven nights a week (Mon.-Thu., 5-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 5-11 p.m.; Sun., 5-9 p.m.), with lunch from 11 to 3 on Saturday and Sunday. Check out Gemelli's opening menu — Italian, with some Provencal influences — after the jump (click to enlarge).
Back in March we told you about Brian "Brain" Dwyer, pizza-culture firebrand behind Fishtown's upcoming Pizza Brain, and his success getting the Guinness Book of World Records interested in evaluating his gigantic cache of pizza-themed memorabilia. Looks like a surveyor from Guinness will be coming to Philadelphia (on Dwyer's dime) on Sunday, July 31 to check out the entire collection, which'll be placed on display at Craft Hustle Art Gallery (2005 Frankford Ave.; formerly Germ Books) from 1 to 4 p.m. Guinness is expected to announce Dwyer's status as an official record holder shortly after the official evaluation, barring some collector in Mogadishu or somewhere swooping in with more 'za stuff than our guy (unlikely). As for Pizza Brain itself, that's still in the works, with no official opening date set just yet.
Photo: Drew Lazor
Just came across this Facebook update from Tyson Bees, chef Tyson Wong Ophaso's popular West Philly-based food truck.
Hi Everyone, its been a pleasure serving all of you. It breaks our hearts to tell everyone that the Tyson Bees crew will no longer be operating the truck. Currently, the company is going through a transition. We are working on future plans and hope to see you soon. Thank you for all your support. We love you all and will keep you posted.
Pretty shocked to hear this news, considering Ophaso's big Philly following and positive press (here's Adam Erace's very complimentary March review) — the pic above is from the truck's participation in the Food Trust Night Market just a few days ago. Though perhaps this means the TB team is focusing the whole of its efforts on the Thai BYOB it's been working on for months now. We've got calls in to Ophaso and his people and will be sure to keep everyone updated.
UPDATE [12:05 p.m.]: Just got off the phone with Ophaso, who tells Meal Ticket that he and partner Cliff Asavadejpakdee are out of the truck due to a disagreement between them and the three partners with whom they launched the operation. "It's been a lot of back and forth, like a ping-pong table," says Ophaso of negotations between the two sides over the running of the truck and launching a proposed Thai restaurant at Sixth and Catharine.
Moving forward, the truck at 33rd and Spruce will continue operating, but without Ophaso and Asavadejpakdee inside; it's still unclear as of now whether or not they'll change the name from Tyson Bees, and Ophaso is not sure whether they'll change the menu. Meanwhile, Ophaso and Asavadejpakdee are hunting for a new opportunity — either a mobile operation or a brick-and-mortar storefront — to continue cooking in Philly. "Our efforts, talents and commitment are devoted to the consumer," Ophaso says of his local fanbase. "We have a lot of friends and support here, [so] we hope to get a [new] location in Philly. This is such a good town with the food truck scene right now."
Photo: Clare Foran
Monday, June 6
Philly Brewing Co.'s Kenzinger makes its television debut.
Weeeee, it's Dogfish Head Festina Peche time.
Peter McAndrews is opening up a wine bar and pizzeria in Media.
Tuesday, June 7
Far From Home Cafe is throwing the awesomely named Empanada-Palooza June 15.
The Twisted Tail, a restaurant and live music venue, is coming to Headhouse.
Oyster House will hand out discounted lobster rolls to celebrate its second birthday.
Wednesday, June 8
The full menu for the Mémé at Mémé dinner on June 15.
Chill colonial-style with Revolution Cider at MidAtlantic on June 20.
Thursday, June 9
Bredenbeck's homemade chipwich is one sweet treat you should eat immediately.
Friday, June 10
Chef John Taus has launched a new summer menu at The Corner.
Chip Roman and Jason Cichonski are moving into the old Ansill space at Third and Bainbridge.
Recapping the heavily attended Food Trust Night Market in West Philly.
As temps hit triple digits yesterday afternoon, dozens of food vendors set up shop in University City and prepared to feed the masses at the second installment of The Food Trust's Night Market.
- barstool scientist
- Booze
- Brew Revue
- Chef Salad
- Closings
- Coffee
- Contests
- Dealage
- Dirty Dishes
- Don't Front
- Eat This Immediately
- Field Trip
- Food and Art
- Food and Holidays
- Food and Movies
- Food and Music
- Food and Politics
- Food and Sports
- Food and Web
- Food Blogs
- Food Books
- Food Events
- Food News
- Food TV
- Gifted
- Happy Hour Hopper
- How-To
- In Print
- Interview
- Meal Ticket
- Menu Time
- Not So Quickfire
- Notes from the Weekend
- On Wheels
- Openings
- Patio Drinking
- Philly Beer Week 2010
- Photos
- Private Chef POV
- Product Placement
- Recipes
- Snack Time
- Stiff Drank
- SUPPER
- Tea
- Testing
- Ticket Stubs
- Top Chef
- Vegan
- Vegetarian
- Video
- Weekly Candy
- Weird Regional Foods
- We're Here to Help
- Where'd We Eat?
- Drew Lazor's Ill-Advised Rant Factory
- Pregame
- Ill-Advised Ranting
- The Week Without Meat
- Philly Beer Week 2009
- Real Big
- Where'd I Eat Last Night?
- Top Chef Masters
- The Good Word
- Next Iron Chef
- Arterial Terrorism
- Food and Radio
