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Archive: July, 2012
New Vietnamese, Chinatown frozen yogurt and a wood aged anniversary at Tria
Vietnam House recently poped up at 901 Race St. It's serving the classics: nems, pho, vermicelli plates and the like. It's got tough competition with the nearby and beloved Pho Xe Lua, but we've got high hopes for this new contender.
Philadelphia has certainly seen a real lack of love from a particular travel TV host. Over the course of eight seasons of No Reservations Anthony Bourdain has bounced around DC, New York, and Jersey but never made it to Philly. Well, we're not making any sort of guarantee, but Meal Ticket has come across some intel that Tony and crew will be in town some time very soon shooting an episode of The Layover.
We're thinking that Bourdain is probably going to steer clear of Cheesesteak Vegas, opting instead of some of our lesser-been-documented-to-death Philly specialities.
Where do you think Bourdain spottings are going to happen? John's Roast Pork? Taconelli's? Let us know in the comments!
There was plenty of excitement happening at South Street hot dog home base, Hot Diggity (630 South St.) in honor of yesterday's National Hot Dog Day. Owner Keith Garabedian hosted a hot dog topping cook off judged by a panel of the city's premier wiener aficionados. Fifteen contestants presented topping combos for grease stain guru Holly Moore, hot dog portraitist-journalist Hawk Krall, and South Philly Taproom-American Sardine Bar-Scott Dogs hawker Scott "foodsyoucaneat" Schroeder.
Stakes were set high with the winner landing a monthlong slot on the Hot Diggity menu. And the contests' fifteen contestants didn't disappoint. Over the top toppings included a French toast dog decked out with peaches and maple syrup, a Middle Eastern-inspired Shakshuka Slammer with harissa, tomatoes and fried eggs, and a smoked watermelon-feta dog.
Congratulations, Dunkin' Donuts marketing team, your ads for the new Oreo Coolata flavors got us. If an Oreo and a Dunkin' Donuts iced coffee had a baby, this is what it would look like. And a $2.89 baby at that, as opposed to the $4 Starbucks breed. The smooth, sweet and creamy coffee is mixed with ice ground down until they resemble tiny grains of sand that seem curiously heat resistant.
You can actually enjoy your frozen beverage, rather than chewing on ice pellets and sipping watered-down coffee after they melt. But the best part about it are the Oreo bits, which look like the kind that are found in the dregs of the milk you used for dunking your Oreos. To be sure, it's still the kind of coffee that is more milkshake than cup o' joe, but that's kind of perferable over a steaming cup on days like today.
Monday, July 16
Curried dessert? Angelo Sosa's Curried Pots de Crème are a hit
It's summer of the Viet chicken salad for Adam Erace
Tuesday, July 17
Iconic Charlie's Hamburgers now griddling seven days a week
Vendy finalists announced, see which mobile food operation reigns supreme on July 28
Wednesday, July 18
Heat beating ice cream options around town
Thursday, July 19
Bangin' new burger at Alla Spina
Chinatown Restaurant serves up a secret Fuzhou menu
Friday, July 20
We'd be more than happy to nurse a hangover with a giant pretzel and even bigger beer at Frankford Hall (1210 Frankford Ave.) any weekend morning. Ping pong is a known hangover cure, right? Well, if that doesn't work for you, Frankford has just kicked off brunch service.
The menu is a straightforward, with four items to satisfy all of your first-meal-of-the-day needs. For the dessert-y breakfast enthusiast there is a stout stack of fluffy buttermilk pancakes topped off with blueberry compote and a whole lotta butter. If an egg sandwich is where you're at, Frankford is giving it to you open faced with spicy bauernwurst, Gruyere, hollandaise, sliced tomatoes, and a fried egg. A bacon and poached eggy salad Lyonnaise is on offer with a shallot vinaigrette for those who like to get their daytime frisée on. Meal Ticket isn't too well versed in the breakfast habits of Germany but Frankford's breakfast platter is a bangin' collection of meats from pork-tacular Bucks County curer, Illgs. Salami, liverwurst, and thick-cut ham are on board with a hard boiled egg, house pickled onions and cornichons, sweet and hot mustards and buttered toast.
The beer list is filled with plenty of low ABV daytime sipping options and Radlers (beer + lemondade) and Bloody Bavarians can be had for $3 from 11:30 to 2.
Today's Afternoon Snacks we've got figgy Riesling celebrations, art and beer at the Memphis Taproom and a special treat for all Seinfeld fans.
Calling all Seinfeld fans, the Seinfeld “No Soup For You” food truck has hit the road, and Philly is stop #3. On July 30th somewhere in the city, you will be able to grab a bite of iconic Seinfeld food (no menu included here... if you are a true fan, you will know what this entails) and to participate in giveaways, all for no cost. Rumor has it Soup Nazi Larry Thomas may make an appearance some time during the tour, so look out. Stay tuned on the Seinfeld facebook page for exact times and locations coming soon.
Damn you, Matyson (37 South 19th St.)! We write about you way too much. But your weekly tasting menus and Soft-Shell Sunday suppers always sound so delicious we can't help but post and share them with our ravenous posse. This Sunday, the $35 pre-fixe starring summer's favorite crustacean gets a drenched in a crab's favorite mate: beer. Think IPA vinaigrette on fluke crudo, stout in the chocolate cake and saison-basil chimmichurri on the entree, beer-battered soft-shells. Here's the full menu. We suggest you read it with a phone very nearby.
Just in case you weren't aware, July is national hot dog month. For your encased meat enjoyment, Philadelphia-based hot dogger extraordinaire, Hawk Krall has lined up a top twenty of of his favorite wieners over at Serious Eats. There's a significant sum of hot dogs in Hawk's life, so scoring a place on the "dogs I'd like to revisit" list is quite the compliment.
Lucky for us Hawk's list includes plenty of tri-state area picks including the Danish Polser from Memphis Taproom (2331 E. Cumberland St.), the Ikea-inspired, roe-topped Swedish Meal Time Dog at Hot Diggity (630 South St.), and the elusive Scott Schreoder-made Scott Dogs. And if you're willing to venture a bit further (read: Jersey), the fried potato-pizza bread Italian hot dog at Jimmy Buff's is pretty out of control and Charlie's Pool Room is an experience in and of itself.
Note: In this column, we make leftovers new again. Waste not, want
As you might have deduced with my gig as City Paper's restaurant reviewer, I eat out a lot. A lot, a lot. And typically I'm ordering more than an average guest, extra apps and desserts and whatnot to best get a fuller feel of a given restaurant's abilities. Though I try, valiantly, to finish what's on my plate, a good portion winds up uneaten, a tragic waste of (usually) perfectly good food. This makes me feel like a terrible, wasteful, insensitive human. I get paranoia thinking the staff is talking shit, wagging fingers at my gluttonous ways from the service station. So, whether I liked the food or not, whatever I don't finish I tote home in a doggybag, which slightly alleviates my guilt even though the leftovers will likely meet an untimely, moldy death in the back of my fridge or trunk of my car. Whoops. Leftovers of dishes I really enjoyed, though, like the lamb-neck gravy from Industry (1401 East Moyamensing Ave.), get put to use. Usually they're not enough to heat up for a full meal, but with a few extra ingredients and a little creativity, they can become something worthy of much more than sloppy seconds.
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