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Archive: July, 2011
We've been fielding plenty of queries about the impending MilkBoy location coming to 11th and Chestnut lately — the project's been a helluva long time coming, after all. The latest: Construction's nearly complete on the combo full-service breakfast/lunch/dinner spot, bar and 200-capacity music venue, which is aiming for an early August opening. Bill Hanson, whose FOH resume includes Buddakan, Alma de Cuba and JG Domestic, will be running the show, working to set this MilkBoy apart from its coffeehouse counterparts in Ardmore and Bryn Mawr. This won't be too much of a task, since unlike its Main Line brethren, the Center City location will serve booze, plus food daily from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. More soon.
Just heard from chef John Taus about a recurring summer event kicking off this week at his spot, The Corner (102 S. 13th St.). Starting this Thursday, July 28, he'll be hosting weekly outdoor barbecues on the restaurant's swanky roof deck. Meteorologists report it’s only going to be 91 on Thursday — perfect baby-back rib weather. Taus will be cooking those sauced racks on a new $700 grill at 7 p.m. for 20 to 25 people; the $30 price tag includes family-style sides like black bean/avocado salad, succotash, cornbread, collard greens with ham hocks and strawberry pound cake for dessert. Following this week’s 'cue, Taus will host two seatings (6:30 and 8:30) each week, and we’re hearing a Green Meadow Farm suckling pig is in the works for Aug. 4. Call for 215-735-7500 for reservations.
CurryBox, a subdivision of New Delhi Indian Restaurant (4004 Chestnut St.), is open for business in West Philly. Brothers Kyle, Josh and Rick Singh created CurryBox as an easy way to get Indian boxed lunches delivered to your home, place of work, or location of your choosing. Place an order by 10 a.m. and choose one of the available delivery times. Orders for the next day can be placed beginning at 3 p.m.
It works like this: Choose two entrees and two sides for $8. Samosas and rice are included. You have the option of adding chicken for $1, but most entrees are vegetarian and many are vegan, all of which are labeled as such on the website.
The service is available Tuesday through Friday. Orders are done online and payment is cash or credit. CurryBox is available in University City only right now, but the group plans to operate in Center City by this coming fall.
Monday, July 18
The Far From Home Café truck is calling it a day in Philly.
Rittenhouse's a.kitchen has launched lunch.
The South Philly location of Santucci's is quite close.
It's all about the halo-halo in this edition of Notes from the Weekend.
Tuesday, July 19
New face in the Philly coffee word: GreenStreet, a new micro-roaster at Broad and Girard.
Renaissance Sausage is ending the mobile truck segment of the business.
Find out what the new owners of Xochitl are planning to tweak at the Mexican restaurant.
Check out the new tasting menus at 10 Arts benefiting Philabundance.
Wednesday, July 20
We here at Meal Ticket love food, but there are certain things we cannot stand.
If you're feeling anti-rice, try the sashimi roll at Vic Sushi.
Enzo's has taken over the old Shank's space at 15th and Sansom.
Pics from our ride around Philly in the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.
Thursday, July 21
La Colombe has released a new cold-brewed bottled coffee.
Aksum Café is opening very soon in West Philly.
Friday, July 22
Melissa Torre of Cookie Confidential is doing some strange/awesome things with cupcakes.
Word on what's taking over the old Kristian's Ristorante space at 11th and Federal.
Chewy Lemonhead & Friends get the Weekly Candy treatment.
Saturday, July 23
Details on Art in the Age's new rhubarb-based spirit, RHUBY.
Art in the Age, which came out with ROOT in 2009 and the autumnally quirky SNAP around this time last year, dropped mention of its newest product today — RHUBY, a rhubarb-based spirit inspired by a tisane (an herbal infusion, basically a tea) made by John Bartram. Complementing the rhubarb base are vegetal elements like beets, carrots and lemons in addition to herbs/spices like coriander, cardamom, vanilla, pink peppercorns and pettigrain (bitter orange) oil. We hear it'll arrive on Philly state store shelves in the first week of August. Here's a video breaking down more on the spirit.
Photo: Art in the Age on Facebook
IN QUESTION: Ferrara Pan’s Chewy Lemonhead & Friends are what we're talking about today. Most of us are familiar with the molar-chipping Lemonheads we all ate as kids, but they've since gone soft — packed inside an obnoxious yellow box splattered with a giant rainbow, Lemonhead is joined by his buddies Apple, Grape, Orange and Cherry, all of whom conspire to force you to eat more candy than you should. Grape and cherry taste like cough syrup (go figure), but lemon, orange and apple taste like they should: fruit candy. They're supposedly made with "real fruit juice," but the best part for me is that they’re first sweet and then tart (like the inverse of Sour Patch Kids). While I still can’t get over the cheesy horrible animated dancing fruit waving at me, I keep reaching for more.
AVAILABLE AT: I haven’t seen them in too many places, but you can definitely find them at the always-entertaining CVS at 10th and Reed in South Philly.
HOW MANY DO WE TYPICALLY EAT IN ONE SITTING: They’re the same size as the original Lemonhead, so it’s likely that one could pop at least 20 into your mouth at once. They’re also chewy, which means that you don’t have to wait for the hard exterior to melt in your mouth. And if you’re sitting in bed or at a computer like I often do during a candy sesh, then mindlessly downing handfuls is not unlikely.
FINER POINTS: In case you want even more real fruit juice in your diet, Chewy Lemonhead & Friends also comes in "berry" and "tropical" varieties.
Photos: Drew Lazor
Kristian Leuzzi, owner of Stogie Joe's (1801 E. Passyunk Ave.), plans to open his “new” restaurant, tentatively named Kris, sometime in September. "New" is in quotations because the location is the former Kristian's Ristorante, the Italian fine-dining establishment at 11th and Federal that Leuzzi shut down in October 2009. “Kristian’s closed because fine dining went out and business sort of trailed off," says Leuzzi. So he and his team are retooling the restaurant to make the atmosphere and menu more casual.
Melissa Torre, owner/chief bacon cookie baker at Cookie Confidential (517 S. Fifth St.), has launched her latest creation, Undercover Cupcakes — multiple layers of cake and frosting served in both glass jars (spoon-feed your way out, return the jar and get rewarded with a treat) and in funky little Push Pop-like contraptions. "I really like my cupcakes, but I’m not a decorator," Torre tells Meal Ticket, so she came up with her own way to eat the tasty treats. She's whipping up flavors like maple bacon, chocolate-covered banana, Neapolitan, buttermilk blueberry and ginger snap (infused with Art in the Age's SNAP liqueur).
In the spirit of our posts on Tom Haverfoods and our dude Ron Swanson's amazing food reel, here's a sign from a Trader Joe's taking best advantage of Swanson's immortal diner-counter order in the episode where his favorite Indianapolis steakhouse closes. I don't really bangs with Trader Joe's that much but might start shopping there based solely on this.
h/t @LouPerseghin via @KelliMarshall via The Gaping Sarlaac Pit That Is The Internet
- By now you must know I love Epic Meal Time. It’s disgusting and yet I can’t stop watching. Luckily, the guys behind Kids React had the good sense to show one of the videos to a group of kids, aged 5 to 14. As you may have guessed, they reacted and that reaction magnifies the joy of Epic Meal Time about a hundredfold.
- Don’t you wish sushi was easier to eat? All that picking it up and putting it in your mouth is so unpredictable. Good thing someone thought of the Sushi Popper, a "portable tube with fresh pre-sliced sushi that is pushed up from the bottom and eaten from the top." It's a sushi Push Pop. Forget electricity, forget modern medicine. This is by far the greatest invention of all time.
- Pork is so much more than the other white meat. It's also the target of a new kind of criminal: the pork thief. On July 14, a man in New York City stole a pig leg out of Bev Eggleston's truck. Eggleston, creator of EcoFriendly Foods, chased the guy down First Ave. until a group of policemen saw it happening and got in on the action. Eggleston opted not to press charges. All he really wanted was his pork back.
- A question that's constantly asked in America is "Why are we so fat?" There's gotta be some reason why we have one of the highest obesity rates in the world. Hyperthyroidism? Slower metabolisms? Environmental peptide mutations (thx, Howard Dean)? Actually, it's cause we eat too much and too big. Go figure.
- On multiple occasions I’ve declared that I am suffering from a food coma. You probably have too at some point. It sounds funny, but it’s for real. Post-prandial somnolence is the result of your body using blood and energy for digestion, taking away from other functions like muscle exertion and exercise and causing you to fall asleep.
- VH1 is rolling out a new and promising reality show called Canz. The title establishment is a Long Island sports bar specializing in wings, beer and breasts, and now you can find out what really goes on behind the scenes in this classy establishment. My guess is it’s not much different from what goes on in front of the scenes.
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