Archive: August, 2010

HAPPY HOUR HOPPER: Supper

POSTED: Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 9:29 PM

Filed Under: Booze | Dealage | Happy Hour Hopper

Happy Hour is a place to vent daily frustrations and unwind, a time to reconnect with friends and coworkers you dont mind seeing beyond the boundaries of Cubicle Land. Its is also the ideal time to score a deal on your favorite gustatives and gulpables. For this feature, Team Meal Ticket hops to happy hours across the land and files a report every Tuesday. Lets delve into it at Supper. WHERE YOU AT? A block down from the Magic Gardens and in the shadow of Whole Foods, we hop this week to the happy hour at Supper (926 South St), Mitch and Jennifer Prenskys urban farmhouse on South Street. It was sticky out so we opted to skip the sidewalk tables and take a seat at the bar inside.


Photos \| Anthony Sica

WHAT'S THE SCENE? This does not seem like a South Street bar. Quiet, relaxing and downright quaint, the open kitchen to our right distributed wafts of butter and herbs as patrons at the bar sipped wine and ate highly manicured, highly seasonal small and large not-as-small plates. The bar scene was healthy, with a mix of old and young, some in jeans and others in three-piece suits. A group of regulars sat at the end of the bar and were eager to discuss other happy hours around town, plus menu highlights. Jazz played over the speakers, the AC was ice cold and there was ancho-dusted popcorn on the bar. Were we seriously on South Street?

Photo | Anthony Sica

WHAT'S THE DEAL? Suppers HH runs Monday through Friday from 5 to 7 at the bar. Hor doeuvres are half-price, and there are specials on glasses of a select red and white wine, as well as a beer special. Our particular happy hour's choices were a Malbec ($4), a Chardonnay ($4) and Sly Fox Pikeland Pils cans for three bucks. The food is the real star at Supper, though. They're known for chef deviled eggs, and $2.50 gets you an assortment of daily flavors, like sriracha and pastrami-cured. Other standouts included duck-fat fingerlings with truffle mayo ($3), and the Eat This Immediately-worthy smoked chicken wings with birch beer and buttermilk ($3). Two generous crab latkes will set you back $3.50; housemade soft pretzels with green chile and beer fondue go for $2.50. If you happen to stay past the HH and want to explore more of Suppers menu with some frugality, check out the "Daily Harvest" menu, picked daily from Prensky's own Blue Elephant Farms. On our visit, $5 got you kale- and cream cheese-stuffed peppers, or for $8 there was the option of tricolor chard with barley risotto. It's a nice way to turn a happy hour hop into a meal and save some coin along the way.

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Rachel Burgos

Posted 2010-08-04 23:55:26

I LOVE suppers wings, I will most def be heading over for happy hour to enjoy them again.

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Where'd we booze?

POSTED: Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 6:48 PM

Filed Under: Where'd We Eat?

Photo | Drew Lazor

Drew Lazor

Posted 2010-08-03 17:59:37

Nice jobs guys! This is London. I had their Sierra Nevada ExPorter.

Terry B McNally

Posted 2010-08-05 17:41:48

holy shit!  I missed u!?!?  cool  Hope u liked the ExPorter, originally called "DePort Her" cause I was such a pain in the ass in CA making it with the boys.

James

Posted 2010-08-03 14:01:32

London

Elizabeth

Posted 2010-08-03 16:16:13

London Grill! I know this view well...

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Aug. 11: Sonnets of the Portuguese cocktail dinner at Koo Zee Doo

POSTED: Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 5:27 PM

Filed Under: Booze | Food Events | Menu Time

Koo Zee Doo (614 N. Second St.), where we had a most excellent dinner this weekend, will host a five-course feast, paired with cocktails from bartenders-about-town Christian Gaal and Phoebe Esmon, next Wednesday, Aug. 11. It's the second event of its kind for Koozy's David Gilberg and Carla Goncalves they hosted a May Beefeater dinner that also featured the alcoholic stylings of Gaal and Esmon. This time around, the barkeeps will create five drinks, all based around spirits from Philadelphia Distilling Penn 1681 rye vodka, Bluecoat gin and Vieux Carre absinthe. The dinner runs $100 a couple and reservations are required (215-923-8080). Check out the menu, plus a rundown of the cocktails, after the jump. Appetizer: a savory sangria Penn 1681 infused with green bell pepper, ginger, coriander and tomato, with a dry white wine, tomato/green pepper garnish Soup Course: Bluecoat Gin infused w/ serrano pepper, corn juice, "Heart of Darkness" bitters, lime Fowl Course: Penn 1681, blackberry/pimenton liqueur, vinho verde Fish Course: Prosciutto-washed Bluecoat, dry sherry, peach puree, houboob bitters (coriander, saffron, white pepper) Dessert Course: Vieux Carre absinthe, strawberry liqueur, lemon juice, simple, sparkling wine

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$15 Butcher & Singer lunch through August

POSTED: Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 4:21 PM

Filed Under: Dealage | Menu Time

Right around this time last year, Butcher & Singer (1500 Walnut St.) began offering its $16 steakhouse burger for a measly $5.95 during lunch service, a shot over the bow in what proved to be a hilarious passive-aggressive burger battle between the Stephen Starr joint and Tommy Up's P.Y.T. This year, B&S is upping its midday seat-filling game once more, touting a $15 prix-fixe lunch featuring an appetizer, entrée and side. (Yes, the burger is available as an option.) The deal's available through the month of August; menu after the jump. (h/t Rachel Burgos)

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rachelburgos

Posted 2010-08-04 12:26:24

I'm so stoked about this

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Phyllis Stein-Novack

Posted 2010-08-03 12:07:30

The menu does not enlarge when one clicks on it.

Drew Lazor

Posted 2010-08-03 12:09:29

Weird, it works for me, Phyllis. Here is a direct link if that is easier!

Phyllis Stein-Novack

Posted 2010-08-03 12:34:11

Thanks Drew. Your link worked fine.

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Notes from the Weekend: August 2

POSTED: Monday, August 2, 2010, 9:55 PM

Filed Under: Notes from the Weekend

Notes from the Weekend is a Monday 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. Were 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.)

Rachel Burgos: RB Adam Erace: AE Drew Lazor: DL Anthony Sica: AS

Photo | Drew Lazor

Fam visited from the great state of Maryland on Friday afternoon, so we hit up Oyster House (1516 Sansom St.) to take advantage of the quite-cheap midday menu (offered 2:30-5 p.m. on weekdays and 3-5 p.m. on Saturdays). Plowed through three dozen oysters, the OH Burger and that so-Philly fried oyster/chicken salad combo. Beer-drinking pops even sipped something out of a martini glass. DL Friday: After some time up in the gym, workin' on my fitness, did the "healthy" thing and ate a white pizza with artichoke hearts, roasted pepper and prosciutto. And a spinach stromboli. Working in green things. AS

Photo | Adam Erace

Hit the bar at just-crowned Best of Philly pasta winner Le Virtù (1927 E. Passyunk Ave.) on Friday for what I'd planned to be a light dinner, but turned into be a three-course affair involving as many wines. Caprese with grilled artichokes. Punchy tagliolini with lots of lemon zest and prosciutto. Limoncello tiramisu. Have you peeped their garden lately? Mural Arts is almost finished covering the neighboring building's wall in a depiction of Abruzzese peasant life. AE Friday, had dinner at my friend's house, a meal that included these delightful little mini chicken cordon bleu "Any'tizers" (courtesy of Acme's frozen section) followed by delivery of Phoebe's BBQ (2214 South St.). I had a pulled pork sandwich, and we split a side sampler of mashed potatoes, mac 'n' cheese, and sneaky spicy greens. It was awesome, though the sandwich was so good I wish we were in a backyard down south instead of an apartment in Bella Vista. Later on we hit up Friendly Lounge at Eighth and Washington, where we enjoyed some drinks, an oddly eclectic jukebox, and absolutely no Friday-night bar crowd. RB

Photo | Drew Lazor

Dropped something like 70 bucks on two food books at B&N The Deluxe Food Lovers' Companion (I have the non-deluxe one, but this edition is so seductive!) and Memories of Philippine Kitchens, a gorgeous historical document/memoir/cookbook from the owners of NYC's celebrated Cendrillon. Put them in a bag with a bottle of Tempranillo. And then the bag broke and smashed on the sidewalk and sticky red wine got all up in the pages of the books I'd owned for about 90 seconds. This Balthazar canelé from Di Bruno's made me feel better. DL

Saturday: Spent the day moving stuff into a new apartment, which necessitated Arizona Arnold Palmers and frozen popsicles. Had a very spicy dinner at Devil's Den (11th and Ellsworth) thanks to orders of hot wings and the diablo mussels. I loveloveLOVE that those mussels are done up with massive hunks of bacon and my fave herb, cilantro. Cooled my mouth off with a Yards Brawler. RB Trying to use up some scallions, I tried my hand at making homemade burnt scallion mayo. If there is nothing better than homemade mayo, there is nothing worse than bad homemade mayo. It broke after about 10 minutes and remains a disastrous oil slick in my fridge. I most certainly had some proportions off. (It tasted good, though for 5 minutes.) Is there a way to save a broken emulsification? AS

Photo | Drew Lazor

Grubbed at Koo Zee Doo (613 N. Second St.) Saturday night everything was amazing. (I once heard the food here described as "fucked-up good," and I couldn't agree more.) The biggest hits this time were the caldeirada de bacalhau, firm-but-flaky salt cod filets served with stewy zucchini and olives; and the lamb, flavored with lots of C things (caradamom, coriander, cinnamon) and braised to an almost-pot roast-like tender that had us drooling like we'd suffered a collective concussion. DL

Photo | Adam Erace

Saturday: Popped into Adsum (700 S. Fifth St.) for a quickie brunch of pancakes studded with Maine blueberries (no love for Jerz?) blanketed in pistachio-bourbon butter I want to eat off a spoon. Later, trekked to Allentown for a wedding and was glad I hit Chick-Fil-A for a spicy chicken sandwich between the wedding and reception. Counter dude tried to be stingy with the Polynesian sauce. He did not know who he was messing with. AE

Photo | Drew Lazor

Tucked away in a tiny closet of a corner room at the Art Museum lies a cool little exhibit on drinking vessels from 17th- and 18th-century Europe. My favorite object were these bear-themed stone booze jugs, thought to have been used by spectators watching the cruel, unusual and thankfully now-illegal "sport" of bear-baiting. Drinking out of a bear-shaped canteen while watching a chained-up bear get attacked by dogs. Rather morose, right? DL

Photo | Rachel Burgos

Sunday, ate a late though wonderful brunch at Mixto (12th and Pine). Started off with cafe con leche in a much-appreciated oversize coffee mug before getting the "Gallo Pinto," which included Bistec Encebollado, aka Puerto Rican-style steak and onions. It came with black beans and white rice sauteed with red and green bell peppers and scallions, two sunnyside-up eggs, an amazingly greasy block of fried cheese, some maduros (sweet plantains)and ripe avocado. A+ meal that kept me full all day. RB Down the the shore, narrowly escaped the mob at Margate's Hot Bagels with my life and a half-doz cran-orange, everything and multigrain. Dinner offshore at former Borgata chef Luke Palladino's Luke Palladino, where the highlight was agnolotti stuffed with sottocenere in a silky swoony foie cognac sauce. AE

Photo | Drew Lazor

Delivery from Ekta (250 E. Girard Ave.) is the best way to spend a Sunday night hiding out. An order of kadai chicken arrived as kadai paneer, but we were far too hungry to try and rectify the situation. Cheese, chicken, chicken, cheese, whatever. Garlic naan was so garlicky I think my breath could still dent metal today. DL Sunday, I made the highlight of my weekend, a raw sweet corn and cashew soup from a Food and Wine recipe. Best thing I made all week and I didn't even have to light the stove. AS

kibby

Posted 2010-08-03 08:58:33

Friday night I ate at the Fat Salmon for the first time and it was great! I was really sad that the posters of singing sushi seem to have disappeared from their design scheme, though.  That was one of the best things about Shinju.
Saturday had bahn mi from Ba Le Bakery.  Duh, they were delicious.  We also got a coconut milkshake that came with a sealed plastic cover on the cup.  I thought the best way to open it would be to stab at it with a straw.  This was the wrong approach and the whole side of the cup burst open and spewed coconut milkshake all over my purse, car and boyfriend.  My car stills smells kind of coconut-y. Saturday night we went to the Kimberton Fair out past Valley Forge and stuffed our faces with italian sausage and pepper sandwiches, cheese fries, amazing birch beer (out of a fake wooden barrel!) and donuts made by firefighters. I also got howled at by carnies and a bruised face from an especially crazy carnival ride.

danya

Posted 2010-08-02 17:15:40

Adam - is that scoop the butter on those pancakes? How about calling the dish Pistachio-Bourbon Butter with a side of... Guess I feel the way about butter that you do about mayo. To each his own.

Saturday had an off-putting experience with my 4th visit to Han Dynasty: after waiting 45 min for entrees, first to arrive was SO hot that after a few bites we simply could not eat anything else. Had to have the rest wrapped up to go. "I thought you liked spicy!" said Han. "Don't you know, you are supposed to shake all the seeds off each piece of meat before you put it in your mouth?"

Um, didn't.

And tasty as the pickled cucumber in chili oil appetizer had been, it was even better the next day, at home atop Zahav hummus from Green Aisle, as dressing on arugula/mushroom salad. Redeemed.

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Felicia D'Ambrosio

Posted 2010-08-02 17:13:18

Experienced the tour de force of Daniel McLaughlin "cooking" at his Raw Feast on Friday, the culmination of a month of raw eating for his project The Thirteenth Diet. WHYY's "A Chef's Table" radio show was there to document, and the food was quite intriguing -- oh, all the things you can do with nuts!

My stepdad's legendary cheese omelets fortified the fam for a trip upstate to Minersville, PA, where we rendezvoused with Army-fied members of the clan who presently live abroad in Bulgaria. Massive platters of Quiznos and Mi-Pal Deli sandwiches, Coke Zeros and local-boy-made-good Yeungling lagers were consumed. 

Skidded in just under the 9pm cutoff to score burgers, fries and onion rings at CJ Hummel's in Lenhartsville, PA on the way back to Philly Saturday evening.  Tasty, simple and cheap -- dinner for 4 was $31. 

A rare Sunday morning off AND in town requires a trip to Headhouse Farmers Market. Aimee Olexy's Steal Your Face tank top warmed my heart (Sunday was Jerry's birthday) and the lovely purslane and shiso from Queens Farm and peaches from Three Springs Fruit Farm filled my bags with exciting raw materials.

Marie DiFeliciantonio

Posted 2010-08-02 19:45:39

I was lame this weekend, totally brought on by osmosis after hanging out at Dave and Buster's and Cavanaugh's Riverdeck for my best friend's brother's 21st birthday. UGH. Whatever you do: don't sit at the bar at D&B (it smells) and don't go into Cav's (period). Little Pete's greasy goodness turned my drunken frown upside down. Kinda upset they don't have wiz for fries, though.

In order to survive Friday's destinations I had to drink heavily which put me out of commission for most of Saturday but I did wake up in time for dinner. (Miss two meals in one day? Never.) Sushi sounds like a notsogood idea when your stomach is on the fritz but that plus a trip to Sundae's for a half-cappuccino, half-coconut chocochip cup (SJ's best, if non-traditional, water ice joint) was the highlight of my pretend-like-it-never-happened weekend.

Sunday and still out of commission (cuz I just turned 28 and that's old in imbibing years) I laid around ate frozen food and then quick made fish tacos with sweet potato fries with a chipotle honey dipping sauce. 

Mayo, water ice and sushi cure all.

Adam

Posted 2010-08-02 20:30:09

D, you'd think that was the butter, but the scoop was actually cardamom ICE CREAM. Who says waffles have to have all the fun?

barry eichner

Posted 2010-08-02 20:52:38

Drew,
So jealous of your weekend!
I found a great - no make it FREAKIN'GREAT joint in Asbury Park for lunch!
http://wp.me/pSkvM-n5
I ate there on Saturday afternoon, Saturday night was Le Viet - seriously amazing joint with SUPER GREAT FOOD!!!

Posted 2010-08-02 20:54:19

I ALSO drank a ton in order to deal with cavanaugh's river deck friday night! friend was leaving town and it was their place of choice... I had never been so I decided to do my best not to judge. Now I know better.

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Posted 2010-08-03 12:27:57

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John E.

Posted 2010-08-03 13:11:03

Friday night, did the Le Bec Fin 40th (and last) Anniversary $40 dinners.  All three appetizer options (octopus, watermelon salad and pea soup) were excellent.  I had the quail entree, which was surprisingly filling.  The cheese plate was ok, but then the dessert cart, as always was just equisite.  Great value for a great meal.  Do it before the special runs out at the ends of the summer.

Saturday night was dinner at Standard Tap.  The great thing is that the sandwich portions (for ham and brie, for instance) are enormous, and the side of fries are tasty.  Great local beer as always.  

Sunday featured the 2nd Street Festival and tried a Rustica pizza for the first time.  I can see why it won Best of Philly for non-gourmet pizza.

foodzings

Posted 2010-08-02 21:52:12

the sunday night tasting menu at fish was absolute perfection! 5 courses for $28... a serious bargain! we loved everything about it, the place is adorable and we'll definitely be back!

Drew Lazor

Posted 2010-08-03 11:57:00

donuts made by firefighters

There are other types of donuts?

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If you see this man, make him buy you lunch.

POSTED: Monday, August 2, 2010, 8:24 PM

Filed Under: Contests

It's Doug Paletta, who's currently working toward his Ph.D. at UPenn. The moral and political philosophy specialist won the "free lunch for a year" drawing at Percy Street Barbecue (900 South St.) that we mentioned back in June, a promo to launch their "all-day" menu. You lucky brisket-eating mofo.

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Posted 2010-08-04 11:05:20

[...] broke-ass fools and barbecue enthusiasts: according to Citypaper’s Meal Ticket blog, Doug Paletta, a Penn PhD candidate, has won free lunch at the incomparably delicious Percy Street [...]

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Fuel moving into Center City

POSTED: Monday, August 2, 2010, 6:22 PM

Filed Under: Openings

Q102 DJ, chef and healthy-grub advocate Rocco Cima tells Meal Ticket that he's close to signing a lease for a second location of his low-cal eatery Fuel (1917 E. Passyunk Ave.), which he opened in South Philly about a year ago. The new restaurant will be at 1225 Walnut, the former home of Philadelphia Home Art Garden (PHAG). Cima promises a "more extensive and intriguing" menu for the space, which'll feature about twice as many seats as his P'yunk original. Opening is up for the fall.

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Posted 2010-08-04 16:41:48

[...] Fuel is opening a second location, this one will be at 1225 Walnut Street. We assume the soundtrack will make the trek from Passyunk Avenue. [Meal Ticket] [...]

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Posted 2010-10-18 12:50:19

[...] Cima, owner of South Philly’s Fuel (1917 E. Passyunk Ave.), says his Center City location at 1225 Walnut should be ready to within a few weeks’ time. For now, take a peek at the planned menu for the [...]

Notes from the Weekend: September 13 :: Meal Ticket :: Food Blog :: Philadelphia City Paper

Posted 2010-09-13 17:32:27

[...] from Fuel (1917 E. Passyunk Ave.). Chef/owner/DJ Rocco Cima says hes about a month away from opening a new Center City location; heres hoping the uptown café will serve Passyunks charred corn-stuffed guacamole, Thai [...]

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Han Dynasty expands $25 tastings

POSTED: Monday, August 2, 2010, 6:02 PM

Filed Under: Dealage | Food Events

Photo | Neal Santos

Old City's Han Dynasty (108 Chestnut St.) has been hit with such a wave of interest in its first-Monday-of-the-month $25 tastings that owner Han Chiang has decided to expand the deal to the third Monday of every month, as well. He's also doing the deal at his location in Royersford (70 Buckwalter Road) on second Tuesdays. Wait wait wait, put down the phone the tastings, in Philly at least, are currently booked solid through November of this year. UPDATE [03aug10]: Chiang says there are currently plenty of openings for the second-Tuesday tastings at his Royersford location.

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EAT THIS IMMEDIATELY: The Liverrace at Paesano's

POSTED: Monday, August 2, 2010, 5:05 PM

Filed Under: Eat This Immediately

Photo | Drew Lazor

In the impassioned struggle for liver-ation, chicken bests calf at least for now. Nathan Baynes, partner with chef Peter McAndrews in Paesano's (901 Christian St.), says the sandwich shop's original Liverrace, which came layered with seared slices of calves' liver, wasn't selling very well they needed to switch things up, while keeping the spirit of the original sandwich (and its amazing name) alive. So about three months ago, Baynes called a vital-organ audible, benching the beef in favor of seasoned and battered chicken livers wrapped in fatty salami, with cool-crunchy iceberg lettuce, raw white onion, roasted tomatoes, broad strokes of garlic mayo and a nice bit of gorgonzola. If this sandwich doesn't drastically improve liver's public image, we don't know what will. Eat this immediately.

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Shark Week specials at Resurrection Ale House

POSTED: Monday, August 2, 2010, 4:38 PM

Filed Under: Booze | Dealage

We're having difficulty coming up with a better reason to drink heavily than Shark Week, which officially kicked off last night. The disturbing prospect of having one's arm gnawed off by a great white can only be curtailed by the numbing power of craft beer, you know? Resurrection Ale House (2425 Grays Ferry Ave.), where the TV is always tuned to something interesting, feels the same way, so they're sprinkling a couple specials throughout this week. Today, they'll be serving 22-ounce bottles of Port Brewing Shark Attack for $8. Tomorrow, they'll tap a keg of Dogfish Head 120-Minute IPA more powerful than a pissed-off mako! and offer 8-ounce pours for $4. Thursday, they'll hold a mini Russian River event, with all sorts of beers from the Cali brewery offered "at low low Shark Week Prices." Finally, they'll be doing bottles of Wostyntje, brewed with mustard seeds, for $7. There is no better shark attack deterrent than a peculiar Belgian strong ale!

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Rock Colors

Posted 2010-08-02 12:15:08

Jabberjaw graphic = classic.

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