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Archive: July, 2010
Filed Under: Dealage
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[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Cunei4m. Cunei4m said: @JessJubilee RT @mealticket Free Slurpee Day at @7eleven is this Sunday, 7.11. Heyooooo! http://bit.ly/c2ampq [...]
Filed Under: Product Placement
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[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Daniel Delaney, Meal Ticket. Meal Ticket said: Check out this cool @VendrTV wallet designed by Philly's own @hawkkrall: http://bit.ly/c7B66m [...]
[...] Delaney’s VendrTV. (Another Philly boy, Hawk Krall, recently worked with VendrTV, as well, designing their signature wallets.) The truck’s trippy vinyl wrap (courtesy of Shira Walinsky) looks good on video. Remember [...]
Filed Under: Meal Ticket
We're quite excited to be working with two new intrepid interns here on Meal Ticket Rachel Burgos, who filed last week's dispatch about Wawa Hoagie Day, and Anthony Sica, who ran down the Talula's Table pop-up at Washington Square. Meet Rachel and Anthony after the jump, and look for much more from them here on Meal Ticket throughout the summer.
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happy eating! cant wait to see what you all have to say!!!
It's nice to meet the new contributors! Rachel: I love the picture, it is the perfect amount of wawa product placement. Anthony: When do we get to see a picture of Eliza?????
Anthony -- Are you a baritone? You look like a baritone.
Congratulations, dude and dudette! Been a fan of Rachel "Spanish Fly" Burgos for quite some time. Girl can eat me under the table. HAHA WAIT
@Poncho: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/dirk41/eliza1.jpg @Molly: Yes, I am a baritone. I haven't been a tenor since 3rd grade.
Burgos is the best. I'm psyched for her stories from the culinary frontlines!
Hey-ooooo
OMGGGGGGG so cute!!!!!
Rachel,look forward to reading your reviews.Big fan of your work.
I TOTALLY AGREE!
Thanks guys, I can't wait to eat lots of cool food and tell you all about it! Anthony, do you karaoke? do you DUET karaoke?
Filed Under: Notes from the Weekend
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Drew Lazor. Drew Lazor said: RT @mealticket: Ready to share your eating/drinking NOTES FROM THE (LONG) WEEKEND with us? Bet you got some good stuff... http://bit.ly/bobGTq [...]
The pizza (leftover from Zavino) was still good at 3am! :-P
Weekend: best philly vacation in yrs. Fri: Multiple cases of craft beer from Bella Vista, 4lbs steak. Sat: Red, white & blue potato salad, w parsley, pickles & egg. Sun, Mon & Tues: multiple meats & cheeses from SP Acme, multiple sauces, fresh herbs, crumbled Italian sausage: Lasagna! ps Nice ice cream photos
Sorry, potato salad was Sun, also. Too much happened that day.
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Drew Lazor, Meal Ticket. Meal Ticket said: Who made the latest NOTES FROM THE WEEKEND? @Zavino @antspantscafe @zamasushibar & @capogiro20 for starters: http://bit.ly/8YRMJU [...]
Saturday I went to Green Eggs Cafe at 13th & Dickinson. For the first time ever I actually enjoyed waiting (10 minutes, tops) for a table by sitting at the bar cooling off with a large iced coffee. Though my smoked Atlantic salmon omelet was fantastic, I absolutely recommend "The Kitchen Sink" to any first timer visiting. It comes in a skillet and is filled with all sorts of yummy things including eggs, potatoes, sausage, biscuits, gravy, and cheese. I also appreciated a guilt free brunch: Green Eggs supports and is committed to a "green" (GET IT?!), extremely eco friendly ethos, including serving coca cola in glass bottles, biodegradable take-out containers, and every hippie-at-hearts favorite, composting. The rest of my weekend consisted of mad BBQ's (count it!) mostly out of town.
FRI / Hardena, where have you been all my life?Popped in for an $8 plate of pre-AC Expwy sustenance, including beef rendang, chicken coconut curry, a veggie firtter thing and collards with more soul than an album of Keith Sweat songs. And this juicebox of Indonesian tea I'm now kind of addicted to. Kaffir lime and cardamom leaf up in that piece. Later, at the fam's shore digs, mom hooked up clams and macaroni like only mom can. SAT / Started the morning by braising a big hulking piece of Esposito's pork shoulder. Went in the oven at 10:30 with dark beer, bronze fennel, thyme, rosemary and two bottles of dark Turkish lager. Out of the oven 6:30 pm. / Dinner down Stone Harbor way at White Heron Grill neé Blackfish. Detail on lock, but suffice to say, their specialty cocktail was a red apple cosmo. SUN / Grilled! Used that pork to fill mini calzones (inspired by Mike Solo's at Zahav's down the shore bash). Ricotta, herbs, fennel poppy and sesame in there too. Rolled out another pizza dough and grilled according to Felicia D's Meal Ticket how-to. Laid on the onion jam, yellow tomatoes and cheddar thick. Also: crabs and macaroni. Ask your South Philly friends.
Started the weekend on Friday with hot dogs and cheap beer at McLincheys, which on the first night back in a familiar town was the only place the ladyfriend and I could come up with. Moved to Jolly's for a beer before finishing the night at the Franklin (first of two trips this weekend) for a penicillin and something with muddled strawberry and cucumber. Thanks to Drew and Michelle for the Zavino trip, that was an unreal amount of food, all of it amazing. Nothing like double fisting a Polpettini slice and a forkful of lasagna. Big thanks for the super double secret cocktails about to be unleashed, the adult lemonade was perfect for a sweltering evening. My Aviation at Ranstead was right on, and the decor made it especially appropriate subbing gin in for Bols. The Franklin's drinks 'with teeth' is a really great menu, and the European Oils is no joke. The Blues Explosion is a nice finish, with the maple syrup and grapefruit balancing perfectly. Sunday was a wedding, but we finished off the Philly trip with lunch on Monday with a stop at Paollo's on Pine St. for some cheese fries and pizza, then a quick jaunt to the Last Drop for a soy latte to fuel the drive back to Boston.
you forgot Good Karma Cafe & The Flying Monkey Deuce. I was so hoping GKC was air conditioned.. no dice, though if it really does improve my karma I suppose it'll be worth it. I got an iced ginger chai which was satisfying from the heat although next time I want to try the vanilla. At Deuce we both got.. raspberry lemonade? That place is super cute inside, despite its disgusting name, and they're expanding soon for more seats/tables. If I wasn't so full already I would've indulged on all their cupcakes. next time!
Friday- Pizza. Lots of sausage and hot pepper pizza from the Pizza Pub. Saturday- More pizza. This time from Mack's on the Wildwood boardwalk. Followed up by the best ice cream down the shore, Duffer's. Went for a Maple Walnut Sundae the size of a baby's head. This was the kind of ice cream overdose that puts you to sleep. Sunday- Breakfast at Samuel's Pancake House. Carrot Cake pancakes with a side of pork roll. You know the summer is here when you somehow find syrup on your flip flop from breakfast down the shore. Sunday lunch was a fine Mexican delicacy-the Choco Taco- on the Wildwood beach. Didn't get any real food Sunday afternoon because Wawa Hoagiefest + July 4th x Broken Deli Screen=Madness. Back to Philly for the Fireworks from atop a roof in Rittenhouse. Monday- Dollar Dog Day @ Citizens Bank Park and a Roy Halladay Complete Game.
That delicious-looking gelato combo in the last pic is dark chocolate and Thai coconut milk. I'm just saying...
Spent all of last week on Rehoboth Beach, earning my Foursquare local badge watching World Cup at Dogfish Head Brewpub. Watched Spain top Portugal while drinking: Life and Limb, Dogfish Head's maple syrupy collaborative brew with Sierra Nevada (the dark, thick, sweet beer is only available in bottles at the brewpub), and Wrath of Pecant, DFH's carob/plantain/smoked malt/pecan wood collabo with Beer Advocate's Alstrom bros. (a woody, roasty brownish ale). Watched Spain best Paraguay over a pint of the excellent seasonal sour Festina Peche (so light, so tart, so refreshing) and a glass of the brand-new GrainToGlass, aged on the cedar used to make surf boards at Massachusetts' Grain Surfboards (a cloudy, reddish ale with some herbal flavors). At some point in the week also had a vintage (circa 06) World Wide Stout, and a flight that included imperial stout Bitches Brew, the excellent/so-hoppy imperial pilsner My Antonia (originally brewed as a collab with Italy's Birra del Borgo) and the bitey saison Zeno. Did most of our own cooking thanks to a Greensgrow CSA share donated by vacationing friends as well as a package of chive, cheese and bacon pierogi from Polish Goodness. Had sushi and a bottle of Tozai Snow Maiden sake (named after a 226-year-old koi) at The Cultured Pearl. Oh man, long, beer-soaked vacation.
YOOOO last year I went to the dogfish head brewpub, it was one of the highlights of my summer and I'd LOVE to go back. I also had the festina peche for the first time this weekend, but I gotta admit I couldn't hang with it. It was just a bit to tart for my liking. The first one was pretty great, but by the second one my mouth felt like I had chased a bag of sour patch kids with some lemonade. To each their own, I suppose.
What I forgot was Saturday lunch at Le Viet! Definitely best atmosphere of any Vietnamese on Washington Ave, with stone & copper walls, lots of sunlight streaming in and courteous service. Get the Cha Gio Re, like spring rolls but with rice threads as the wrapper, around minced shrimp & pork, and don't miss the Hen Xuc Banh Da, sauteed baby clams served in an edible rice cracker bowl. Clay pot duck was great, too.
I LOVE Festina Peche. They lightened the sour notes this year too.
Although the 4th was uber hot, I still manned the grill. Rocked some pasta salad, cuccumber salad and a friend made Asian Slaw that is to die for. On the grill had your obligatory burgers and dogs along with some bratwursts and two pork tenderloins grilled to perfection with two different marinades. Sweet Baby Ray's never fails.
Please tell me more about this Asian Slaw you speak of...
Sweet Baby Ray's is soooooo good. A wise man once showed me the way by combining equal parts SBR's and Sriracha for chicken nuggets...yummmm
Hah! You know, now that you mention it, it was definitely more sour than I remember, which is likely why I dug it more this year than in the past, and probably why Rachel (above) didn't.
[...] 6/30 Meal Ticket• Meal Ticket Roll Call: Meet your new interns, Rachel Burgos and Anthony Sica• Notes from the (Long) Weekend: July 6• Famous Dave's coming to Chestnut Street• EAT THESE IMMEDIATELY: Summer specials at [...]
thanks bh! here at polish goodness, we aim to please!
[...] - Notes from the (Long) Weekend: July 6 [06jul10] [...]
Filed Under: Openings
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[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Aaron, Meal Ticket. Meal Ticket said: New tenant for the former Goodburger space on Chestnut Street: http://bit.ly/bNhw0P [...]
[...] Famous Dave’s Barbecue is coming to the old Goodburger storefront on Chestnut Street. Center City Q? We’re alright with that. [Meal Ticket] [...]
[...] | Hurry Up, Famous Dave’s!Aired September 14th, 2010 on BBQ.0 Comments As Meal Ticket told us back in early July, Famous Dave’s Bar-B-Q will be moving into 1725 Chestnut Street. [...]
[...] Famous Dave’s location at 1725 Chestnut, which we first noted over the summer, is now open for business. As opposed to other Famous Dave’s locations, which are aimed at the [...]
Filed Under: Eat This Immediately
Stopped by Lansdowne's Sycamore (14 S. Lansdowne Ave.) over the long weekend to grab a peek at some perfect-for-summer dishes Sam Jacobson has going the British-born chef was kind enough to cook up a sampling of his stuff for us to share with all you city types who don't make it out to the DelCo hamlet with any regularity. Jacobson's lineup rotates frequently based on what's available, meaning he won't be cooking all these dishes every single day, but it's most definitely worth giving a ring to see what's on the menu on a given evening if he's doing even one of these on your night, you're good.
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[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Drew Lazor. Drew Lazor said: RT @mealticket EAT THESE IMMEDIATELY: Summer specials at Sycamore http://bit.ly/cPVZTR [...]
The food at Sycamore is truly wonderful and I hope more people try it. I grew up in Lansdowne and it's great, for so many reasons, to have a restaurant of this caliber in town. So everyone go eat at Sycamore!
I definitely agree. Sycamore is a must visit for anyone in the Philadelphia area.
[...] - EAT THESE IMMEDIATELY: Summer specials at Sycamore [06jul10] [...]
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[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Rachel Kuptz and Meal Ticket. Meal Ticket said: Instead of posting today, we're gonna be doing this: http://bit.ly/cE37w7 You should do the same! [...]
Funny.
[...] We weren’t working … National Nap While Wearing Sunglasses Day, remember? [...]
Filed Under: Meal Ticket | Ticket Stubs
Monday, June 28
Take a peek at the garden chef's table at Fond.
Mémé unveils some sweet deals for the summertime.
We gave away two tix to the Down the Shore dinner Zahav. They're long-gone but you can still take our Jersey Shore food quiz!
Octopus, SNAP, pork belly, soup and cookies, all in Notes from the Weekend.
Tuesday, June 29
'Rita time! Happy Hour Hopper visits Xochitl.
Wednesday, June 30
Speaking of Mémé their second annual all-star chef pork dinner is scheduled for July 20. Check out the details.
Free Percy Street Barbecue? Tell us more ...
Cups & Chairs Tea Café opens on Fifth Street.
Thursday, July 1
Snoop Dogg, Twin Peaks, Requiem for a Dream and Broughton's rules boxing all somehow make their way into our latest Top Chef D.C. recap. Eeeeghhh.
Friday, July 2
Rachel Burgos recaps the ridiculousness that was Wawa Hoagie Day.
Frog Burger's staying open late on July 4. Eat and boo the Goo Goo Dolls simultaneously!
Anthony Sica hits up Aimee Olexy's Talula's Table pop-up at Washington Square, leaving full and impressed.
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