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Archive: July, 2011
Back in April, we told you Cafe Estelle (444 N. 4th) chef/owner/pie piper Marshall Green was reprising dinner service as his daylight dynamo once a month throughout the summer. We got the menu for July’s supper, which goes down on 18th, and boyyyyy is it a doozy. Oysters. Caviar. Housemade fettuccine. We're particularly intrigued by the cheese course, an aged chevre from Cypress Grove in California, paired with tomato jam and pickled heirloom eggplant. The dinner begins at 7 p.m. and costs $75 a head. Check out the full menu after the jump, then make rezzies by calling Estelle at 215-925-5080.
In the most recent edition of Notes from the Weekend, I shared how my Saturday-night drunk-munchie meanderings led to the creation of Project X Dad's Sandwich, a butter-fried turkey/pork roll situation wrought from the potent admixture of wee-hour hunger and disparate fridge contents.
Rebecca Torpie of the recently opened Wedge + Fig (160 N. Third St.) caught wind of the experiment and asked if she could place a rendition of Dad's Sandwich on her chalkboard as a "Panini of the Day" special. OBVIOUSLY I SAID YES HOLY CRAP WHAT A HUGE HONOR!
Remember my monster watermelon dilemma last summer? History repeated itself last week, only this time with pounds upon pounds of sour cherries from Three Springs Fruit Farm. Thirty-five of them to be exact. After pitting a few pounds (about two hours of hard, sticky, finger-staining labor), I set out to make a sour cherry pie.
UPDATE: Both Holly and Drew won first-place honors!
Our very own Drew Lazor has been nominated in the 2011 AltWeekly Awards! He’s quite modest (he shuffles his feet and says "d'oh" when complimented), so I said I'd be honored to write it up. Three of Drew’s stories have been nominated in the "Food Writing" category of the awards, overseen by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN). (CP staff writer Holly Otterbein was also nominated in the "Arts Feature" category.) Needless to say, we’re psyched for Drew and wish him the best of luck. (Winners will be announced later this month.) Here are the three stories CP submitted for consideration:
Minette Men: Along for a ride to the James Beard House with Bistrot La Minette's Peter Woolsey. [30dec10]
"A force for global mischief and global good," the UK-based Adventurists strive to make the world a little less boring by hunting down thrills in extreme locales, all while raising money for charity. While it's their job to test out adventures (rickshaw runs through the Rajasthan Desert? Mongolian horse derbies?), it's your job to sign up for the vetted wildness and earn cash for organizations of both the Adventurists' and your own choosing. So far, they have seven international challenges to choose from, and team members are selected at random, meaning you could very well end up trekking through miles of jungle in Southeast Asia with complete strangers.
This Saturday, July 9, the Adventurists will gather in Philly at The Union League (140 S. Broad St.), along with Hendrick's, to host a gin-infused tea party from 4 to 9 p.m., with speaker Charles Brewer-Carias (pictured) taking the podium around 5. The grandson of an British diplomat who calls Venezuela home, Brewer-Carias is quite possibly the model for The Most Interesting Man in the World — he's an accomplished author, discovered the world's largest quartzite cave and has dozens of species of plants and animals named after him. Throughout the event, they'll be serving high-end teas (Earl Grey, Lapsang Souchong, Darjeeling) and a selection of Hendrick's cocktails. Bring your best etiquette; appropriate tea attire is required.
Tickets to the event can be purchased here, but Meal Ticket has a pair to give away. Entering is easy: Before tomorrow evening at 5 p.m., simply detail your most impressive food adventure in the comments. (If you're not yet registered to comment, please do so with an email address you check regularly — that's how we'll alert the winner.) Happy adventuring!
UPDATE [08jul11]: Cheers to Meal Ticket commenter Sarah Aileen, who wins two tix to tomorrow's event for her anecdote, which you can read after the jump.
- Adam Erace takes on the "enchanting, exacting" experience at Talula's Garden, the collaboration between Stephen Starr and Aimee Olexy of Talula's Table. Find out what plate earns his honor of "Pasta Dish of 2011" — even though the year's only half over.
- We're currently in the thick of the Summer of Riesling, a nationwide promotion nudging wine drinkers toward the oft-misunderstood grape. (It's not just sweet!) There are plenty of Philly bars and restaurants taking up the cause, too.
- In Feeding Frenzy: Dish on The Blind Pig, Kansai, Hop Sing Laundromat, Rubb BBQ and other dining tidbits.
- In What's Cooking: Nicole Rossi previews next week's Yards/Culton Organics dinner at Kennett, this Saturday's Vendy Awards and more.
Photo: Neal Santos
There are few things more disappointing than buying wine and hating it. I suppose it serves me right for being taken in by nice packaging, but I was searching for a palatable boxed red wine — something to keep in the fridge for cooking, and for the occasional glass with dinner — and ended up with a 3-liter box of this stuff, which was nigh-on undrinkable. With guests coming over and the liquor cabinet mostly bare, we picked up some cheap brandy and triple sec at the PLCB store to try and salvage the plonk by making sangria.
"It’s on a bagel. It can’t be that bad.”
That’s what my boyfriend offered before we tried the new tuna salad sandwich from Dunkin' Donuts.
You might've noticed an army of cows dudes in cow suits blanketing Center City today, handing out gratis Chick-fil-A chicken sandwiches to all comers — it's a boots-on-the-ground promo promoting the 16th anniversary of the pollo chain's "Eat More Chikin" campaign. The generous bovines have already hit up Penn's Landing and Independence Hall today, but you've still got time to snag a free sandwich at the Art Museum this afternoon at 1:30. It's all in upport of Cow Appreciation Day, scheduled for this Friday, July 8. On that day, hit up any Chick-fil-A location during business hours dressed as a cow and you'll receive a free meal. Note: You've got to be decked out head-to-toe in moo-ving attire to get that full meal. If you're rocking a cow accessory, such as a hat or bell or black-and-white shirt, you'll get a free entrée only. Just go all the way, you know?
Notes from the Weekend is a Monday Wednesday (this week!) 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.)
- 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
