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Archive: July, 2009
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| Photos | Drew Lazor |
Great burger. (Hint: This place has appeared in a past Where'd We Eat? installment.)
hmmm ... looks like Time to me! Their burgers & fries rock! Oh, and the risotto balls!!
Looks like Time, and looks DELICIOUS. Stupid peanut butter & jelly and applesauce.
Stacy Ann and Kelly: Great work, ladies, this is indeed Time. Great burger â we also snacked on veal smokes (smoked terrine-style veal inside phyllo dough w/ aioli...bangin!) and a fried veggie platter w/ assorted dipping sauces.
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| The Gold Standard Caf� |
West Philly's Gold Standard Caf� (4800 Baltimore Ave., 215-727-8247) just launched this lunch menu yesterday. Two winning aspects to this. First, prices are cheap � the most expensive item is $8.50. Second, even though it's technically a lunch menu, you can order off it all day � from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday and from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, to be precise. (This excludes eggs, which aren't available after 4 p.m.)
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| Photo l Felicia D'Ambrosio |
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Last week Meal Ticket experimented with pitting some seriously juicy cherries without a cherry pitter, all in the service of a classic clafouti.� This Chowhound thread made some suggestions, including using a bobby pin, a paperclip, a chopstick or the metal tip of a pastry bag.� Two Chowhound McGyvers shared their more elaborate methods, one involving hammering a (clean) nail into a (clean) board, and another that presses an eraser-gutted No. 2 pencil and an empty beer bottle into service.
Then, City Paper restaurant critic Trey Popp hit us with this eye-opening email.
In the wake of your clafouti piece, I have to share a tip on the best and cheapest cherry-pitting tool ever: a pair of scissor tweezers, like this $1.58 job.� The suggestion came from my mother-in-law.� You can pit 10 cherries a minute this way, with so little mess (or lost juice) that rinsing your hands at the end is more a matter of etiquette than necessity.� Truly, it's the best non-kitchen kitchen gadget I've discovered in ages.
Inspired by Trey's mother-in-law to pit even more cherries even faster and cleaner than before, I offer up this super-reduced cherry sauce, equally tasty on toast, ice cream, duck spring rolls, as a filling for chocolate cupcakes and seared stuffed pork loin.� Scope the technique after the jump.
RELATED: TREAT: Cherry Clafoutis [01Jul09]
If you find yourself with an excess of cherries too soft to eat out of hand, make good use of their over-the-top sweetness and intensity by making a multi-purpose cherry sauce.� Pitting the cherries with a scissor tweezer� retains the beautiful whole shape and juicy bite, but if you prefer a smoother-textured finished product, you can always puree the reduced sauce.
Sweet Cherry Sauce
(for ice cream, toast, cupcake filling, etc.)
Go Get This:
Two quarts cherries, pitted
Four Tablespoons light brown sugar
1/2 cup red wine, port, dark beer or other liquid of your choice (water works too)
Now Do This:
In a small, heavy saucepan, combine the liquid and cherries over medium heat.� When warm, add the sugar and stir to combine.
Allow to bubble, uncovered, until reduced to your desired thickness.
Savory Cherry Sauce
(for stuffing a pork loin, dipping duck spring rolls or otherwise non-sweet objectives)
Make the sauce exactly as above, but reduce sugar to one Tablespoon to help things come together.� Add a sprig of fresh herbs: rosemary, thyme, a sage leaf or two.�� Select a non-sweet liquid to add flavor: try chicken or vegetable stock, dry wine, beer or even herbal tea.
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| Photo | Drew Lazor |
Yesterday, we filled you in about the brand-new Yogorino at 20th and Locust. Owner Cata Raisbeck tells Meal Ticket the grand opening event for her yogurt shop will be this Friday, July 10. She'll have a rep from the Italian company over to talk up the product; the shop will be open from 8 a.m. to midnight.
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| Photo | Drew Lazor |
It looks as if Meju, the Korean BYOB Double Shots owner Steve Cho opened in the fall of 2007, has ceased operations at 213 Chestnut Street. Despite its sweet location on paper, this has traditionally been a very tough space for restaurants: Prior to Meju, it was chef Todd Lean's Mandoline, which closed despite spirited raves from Craig LaBan and many others.
The number on the "For Rent" sign, if you're interested, is 215-939-1516.
[...] The seemingly cursed corner of Chestnut and Strawberry has claimed Korean BYOB, Meju. Now lets get those Jose Garces taco stand rumors going again! [Meal Ticket] [...]
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| Photos | Drew Lazor |
Bacon-wrapped meatloaf, mashed potatoes, gravy, veggies and a pint: $12.
UPDATE: You knew I wasn't gonna make it easy today! Here's the Twist on the meatloaf deal at this bar, which is located east of Broad: It's only available on Mondays.
Ooh, is it The City Tavern?
Good guess, phillygrrl, but this place is not in Old City.
I lied, that's not west of Broad.
Actually, I'm a total idiot: That is meant to say EAST OF BROAD. Changed. Sorry!
artful dodger or maybe dark horse....i'm going dodger
Pablo: Well-played! Grabbed some meatloaf at the bar at the Artful Dodger last night. Though I couldn't fully enjoy the string beans because I recently got my wisdom teeth pulled, the tasty 'loaf and mash were right up my soft-food alley. And all of that for $12, including a beer? Dealage.
Ooh, never been there. Looks good, though. I'll have to go post-wisdom teeth pulling.
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| Photo | Drew Lazor |
European cycling fans are accustomed to getting up too early � to catch the live broadcasts of the Tour de France, for example, you have to be awake at 6:30 or 7 in the morning, which we don't even think is physiologically possible. But wait! For every remaining stage of this year's TdF (it runs till July 26), Brauhaus Schmitz (718 South St., 267-909-8814) will air the daily replay, which begins at the much more human-y hour of noon. Three-dollar Kronenbourg 17776 and $1 off Franziskaner while it's on. Today's stage takes place in Montpellier. Great Ghost of Floyd Landis!
RELATED: Brauhaus Schmitz in pictures
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Jennifer Zoga, who used to develop marketing strategies for startup companies, has switched up her professional path to focus on opening Good Food Market, a "sophisticated convenience store" at 12 West Willow Grove Avenue in Chestnut Hill. Zoga, a CH resident, hopes to have the 4,000-square-foot space open by mid-August.
Good Food will feature prepared foods to go and higher-end grocery items in addition to convenience staples like milk, eggs, sodas, diapers, etc. There will be a salad bar, a $5 sandwich lunch special and a $20 for-two dinner special (app, entr�e, sides, salad and dessert) offered on a daily basis. They'll do delivery to the neighborhood as well as curbside pickup service. Zoga's hired a local chef to handle the operation, but can't reveal a name just yet.
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Mugshots Coffee House, which has locations in both Manayunk and Fairmount, started its local food buying club just over two years ago. Co-owner Angie Vendetti says the idea sprouted from the scary thought of Manayunk-area residents not having a reliable source of locally grown food. "Most of our [Manayunk] customers are people that work there, as well," says Vendetti, "so it seemed like a really good option for picking up food Friday afternoons for the weekend."
Every Sunday afternoon, registered members grab an order form off the caf�'s Web site, and have until Tuesday to pick and choose from an array of local farm-fresh products. Orders are filled by the approaching weekend, with the option of picking up at either caf�. Non-members have access to a limited lineup of in-store choices, but you'll have to enroll to gain access to the full selection of meats, dairy and veggies, as well as treats like garlic parmesan baguettes, coffee crumbcake rice pudding and Mugshots' own chocolate chip banana bread.
The primary purpose of the club, Vendetti says, is to promote the benefits of buying locally to those who aren't deeply engaged in the movement. "About 10 percent of our customer base is super loyal, and is going to go out of their way to buy something local or fair-trade," she says. "Half will buy occasionally, but wouldn�t go out of their way, and the other 40 percent don�t really know what�s going on. The club is to engage more people like that.�
For more good eats sponsored by Mugshots, stop by City Hall on Wednesdays between 11 to 3 during the growing season for the Farm To City farmers market, where Mugshots has a stand offering organic food and drink.
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| Photo | Michael T. Regan |
The Insider's dropped word that the Oceanaire Seafood Room, the opulent sit-down at 700 Walnut, has shut down. (See our 2007 review.) Word is the restaurant's employees were informed of the development this morning. This leaves McCormick and Schmick's and Phillips to duke it out for high-end seafood chain dominance in Center City.
[...] closed in March (and still has a completely functional Web site … ?) and the Oceanaire, which fell last month. They’ll honor gift certificates at full face value up to a $100 [...]
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