Chef Salad

Devil's Den gets a new chef

POSTED: Monday, December 13, 2010, 4:50 PM

Filed Under: Chef Salad | Menu Time

Paul Trowbridge, veteran of Alison at Blue Bell, Moriarty's, Vega Grill and Blue Horse Tavern, has taken over the kitchen at Devil's Den (1148 S. 11th St.) from Alex Urena, who came on about a year ago from R2L and has reportedly moved back to New York due to personal issues. Peep DD's latest menu, launching today, after the jump. Also going down tonight at Devil's Brooklyn's Sixpoint is kicking off the Philadelphia premiere of its "Mad Scientist Series," which features the brewery's peculiar draft-only creations. Tonight from 5 to 7 starting at 7, you can cop drafts of their Spelt Wine, a 9.5 percent ABV barleywine-style beer for which half the barley for the brew was replaced by spelt. UPDATE: Quick clarification: Sixpoint's Spelt Wine will be tapped at 7 p.m. And Devil's will offer their half-price happy-hour draft deal from between 5 and 7, as per usual. Sorry for the confusion.

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poncho

Posted 2010-12-14 00:42:36

I'd love to try that seitan sloppy joe!

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Posted 2010-12-13 12:53:51

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JerseyDan

Posted 2010-12-13 14:32:28

FYI: Sixpoint Spelt Wine will not be tapped until 7pm.

Foobooz » Quick Bites

Posted 2010-12-16 11:12:39

[...] Paul Trowbridge is the new chef for Devil’s Den. He was most recently at Moriarty’s. [Meal Ticket] [...]

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Posted 2010-12-20 08:31:11

[...] South Philly beer bar Devil’s Den lands a new chef, Paul Trowbridge. [...]

Todd

Posted 2010-12-17 16:36:37

It's funny, b/c I was so pissed when Alex took the duck fries off of the menu when he came aboard, but now I'm pissed that Paul has taken the crab ravioli off his newish menu.  Whatcha gonna do.  The duck fries are heaven on a plate and I look forward to scarfing them down with some kick ass beer.

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All that sparkles at JG Domestic

POSTED: Friday, December 10, 2010, 4:53 PM

Filed Under: Booze | Chef Salad | Food Events | Food TV

On Dec. 5, Food Network's Iron Chef America aired its "Battle Sparkling Wine" episode, one that featured Philly's Jose Garces edging out Mike Lata of Charleston's excellent FIG 70 to 67 in a bubbly-based clash. (We ate at FIG recently and can confirm that Lata, a James Beard winner, was a more-than-formidable opponent for our guy indeed! Eater has clips.) Now, for the first time since landing the Iron Chef gig, Garces is making one of his multi-course meals available to the general public. Visit JG Domestic (Cira Centre, 2929 Arch St.) between now and Dec. 30 and you can eat like an ICA judge; Garces' five-course sparkling dinner will be available for $65 ($25 upcharge for beverage pairing). Check out what that entails after the jump. - Champagne and Blinis with various garnishes: prosecco-marinated artichoke with parmesan espuma, hackleback caviar with champagne-chive cream and cava-cured salmon with baby fennel and fresh goat cheese - Champagne-Poached Oysters with champagne-sorrel broth, hot potato-champagne espuma, pickled chanterelles and guanciale - Seared Diver Scallops with sparkling wine hollandaise and sparkling wine soubise - Prosecco-Braised Rabbit Leg with roasted rabbit loin, gnudi and tomato-prosecco fondue - Honey Cake with manchego mousse, cava gelee, cava honey, cava-macerated strawberries and strawberry bubbles

seriously?

Posted 2010-12-13 02:29:47

This is what you sit there worrying about?

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Posted 2010-12-11 15:50:13

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barryg

Posted 2010-12-11 13:58:04

Doesn't serving Champagne, Cava, and Prosecco violate the "domestic" theme?

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Posted 2010-12-10 12:15:05

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barryg

Posted 2010-12-13 09:47:25

Yes it's been bothering me all weekend.

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Oh, dear: Matt Levin's Four Loko dinner is a go

POSTED: Monday, December 6, 2010, 9:30 PM

Filed Under: Booze | Chef Salad | Food Events

Photo | JC

Who you tryin' to get crazy with, ese? Don't you know Levin is Loko?

Next Monday, Dec. 13, chef Matt Levin of Adsum (700 S. Fifth St.) will cook a four-course dinner based around Four Loko, the controversial caffeinated 12-percent-alcohol energy beverage that's all the rage with those goddamn crazy kids. *shakes cane* Levin floated the idea of a Four Loko-themed meal on Twitter as a joke, but the people spoke: "Within 15 minutes, I got 37 responses that peeps wanted in," says the chef. "Sometimes your worst decisions are your best." Levin began stockpiling Loko after he heard that that Phusion Products, which produces the drink, was coming under fire from health officials (apparently, combining the ABV of a high-proof beer with caffeine, taurine and guarana is potentially deleterious). The beverage, in its current form, will soon be no longer, all the more reason for Loko boosters to hit up Levin's four-course, drink-paired feast: - Moroccan Lamb Sausage and Peppers paired with Adsum's "Loko Yoko" cocktail - "BBQ Picnic," featuring Loko pearls and pickled watermelon rind, paired with Lemonade Loko - Vanilla Pain Perdu with Loko slushy and gelee, paired with Watermelon Loko - Loko Pate de Fruit, paired with Fruit Punch Loko Adsum's Four Loko dinner will cost $35, and there are two seatings: 6 and 8 p.m. Call 267-888-7002 to reserve.

Kar

Posted 2010-12-07 13:29:28

Filled my trunk with MORE LOKO! Today...

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Posted 2010-12-15 11:26:52

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Posted 2010-12-07 08:02:43

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Arancini

Posted 2010-12-07 10:25:23

Burn that picture

World Foodspotting Day @ Adsum « Geekadelphia

Posted 2011-01-12 12:31:35

[...] Here in Philadelphia, Chef Levin of Adsum Restaurant is helping Foodspotters celebrate with a few Foodspotting brunch specials on Saturday, January 15th. We’ll be treated to chicken and waffles, a fig sorbet-based cocktail and a fried egg dish (curious as to the yet-unknown details of this one). Regretfully, I don’t think he caught my request to have some inspiration drawn from his Four Loko Dinner. [...]

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Tomorrow: Top Chef All-Stars premiere party at 10 Arts

POSTED: Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 6:02 PM

Filed Under: Chef Salad | Food Events | Food TV | Top Chef

Check out the premiere of Top Chef All-Stars in style tomorrow, Dec. 1, at 10 Arts (Ritz-Carlton, 10 S. Broad St.). Take in the festivities with 10 Arts chef de cuisine/Top Chef Las Vegas finalist/Top Chef All-Star contestant Jennifer Carroll (above) and 10 Arts culinary director/silver fox Eric Ripert as they meet/greet guests in the restaurant and lounge throughout the evening. In addition to 10 Arts' a la carte menu, guests can choose to experience chef Carrolls $75 five-course tasting menu of her favorite dishes from her first run on Top Chef, including halibut with black pepper bourbon sauce, the first dish she made on the show. As a refresher, guests will be able to watch episodes from Carroll's season on flat-screens throughout the restaurant leading up to the premiere of All-Stars at 10 p.m. Enjoy complimentary tastes of the chef's favorite whiskey cocktail and enter to win the grand prize of the night: a DVD set of Top Chef Las Vegas, a 10 Arts gift certificate and a complimentary overnight stay at the Ritz-Carlton. Ripert will also be signing copies of How to Cook Like a Top Chef, as well as his new book, Avec Eric: A Culinary Journey with Eric Ripert. The party gets under way at 7 p.m.

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Posted 2010-12-01 15:43:47

[...] RIP Bruce Nichols, Philly Beer Week founder• EAT THIS IMMEDIATELY: Soondubu at Giwa• Tomorrow: Top Chef All-Stars premiere party at 10 Arts• Earn Extra Credit at The Franklin• Dec. 13: Chefs Sam Jacobson and David Ansill crash [...]

poncho

Posted 2010-11-30 13:22:00

The grand prize seems like a sweet deal! Anyone know how much the gift certificate is worth?

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Dec. 13: Chefs Sam Jacobson and David Ansill crash Han Dynasty

POSTED: Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 1:00 PM

Filed Under: Chef Salad | Food Events

Photo | Drew Lazor

On Monday, Dec. 13, chef Sam Jacobson of Lansdowne's Sycamore and chef David Ansill of Ladder 15 both of whom count themselves among Han Dynasty's most loyal regulars will hop into Han Chiang's kitchen (108 Chestnut St.) for a special collaborative dinner. Scheduled to kick off at 7 p.m., the dinner will feature seven courses for $40 a head. Though the menu is not solidified just yet, both Jacobson and Ansill will be preparing Western-style dishes under the influence of the Sichuan ingredients and techniques that rule at Chiang's restaurant "Chinese-izing American food," and not the other way around. Keep in mind that eats like Sichuan-spiced salmon carpaccio, tea-smoked ribs, Sichuan peppercorn ice cream with sriracha caramel may make an appearance at the feast, which will be served to diners both family-style and individually plated, depending on the dish. Call Han Dynasty at 215-922-1888 to make reservations, and be sure to specify that you're corraling seats for the collab.

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Recapping: Green Meadow Farm Dinner at James

POSTED: Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 7:22 PM

Filed Under: Chef Salad | Food Events | Photos

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The weekend before last, we had the great pleasure of attending the fourth annual Green Meadow Farm dinner at James (824 S. Eighth St.). Organized almost exclusively around products sourced from Glenn Brendle's operation in Gap, Pennsylvania (about an hour west of the city), the meal was a celebration of Green Meadow, the family-run Lancaster County farmstead that supplies numerous top-notch Philly restaurants with herbs, vegetables and other produce. (In addition to Jim and Kristina Burke's James, Green Meadow supplies the likes of Barbuzzo, White Dog, Bar Ferdinand, Zavino, London Grill and quite a few more.) The entire Brendle clan was in attendance for the evening, so naturally, much of the food was served family-style on big fork-it-over-sis platters something you're not going to catch at the refined James all that often. Jim Burke has a reputation as one of the most meticulous chefs in the city (read Adam Erace's recent description of his art-project-on-a-plate Venus' Jewel Case), and while tons of work went into this multi-course feast, the grub on this night had a certain homey zeal to it roll-your-sleeves-up good, no biggie if you spill something on yourself (I did, but then again I always do). All in all, an immensely fun, hospitable and singular experience that I was fortunate to be a part of. What we ate, in order: - Cream of rutabaga soup with mustard-marinated mushrooms - Malabar spinach-stuffed mezzaluna pasta with brown buter and pecorino di fossa - Hubbard squash risotto topped with 30-year-aged balsamic vinegar - Mains apple/chestnut-stuffed capon; roasted whole Pocono mountain trout; housemade fennel sausage - Vegetables bacon-braised collards; pan-roasted heirloom cauliflower; roasted sweet onions; parsnip purée; cardoon gratinata* - Dessert quince-pear almond tart; carrot-walnut pudding cake; wildflower honey and vanilla ice creams * This was my first time trying cardoons, basically big ol' thistles that look like prehistoric celery and taste a bit like artichokes (they're related). I copped a bunch over the weekend also sourced directly from Green Meadow from Green Aisle Grocery. If anyone has any suggestions on how to cook these bad boys, I'm all ears!

Michelle

Posted 2010-11-23 14:31:56

Everything about this dinner was incredible.  I still think about the rutabaga soup, the cardoons, and the roasted onion.  The food and service was still very much James caliber but it was so inviting to be served family style while sitting in large groups.  It was such a comforting meal, thanks so much to the James staff for a great time.  Hope to see you next year!

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Posted 2010-11-23 15:33:05

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Jim Burke, Chef JAMES restaurant

Posted 2010-11-24 14:05:55

We have started joking that Chef Burke has created a cardoon craze! Many have asked us how to prep & prepare this interesting veg, well here goes. May you all enjoy a delicious & safe Thanksgiving. 

Stay hungry,
The JAMES Crew

Cardoon Gratin
rinse stalks, trim leafy edges
Cut into 1/2" & soak overnight in VERY salty water
Drain, blanche until al dente in VERY salty water
Sweat thinly sliced onions in generous amount of butter until soft (NO COLOR) add a couple of chopped salted anchovy then add the cardoons, cover with cream, bring to a simmer & continue to simmer under a parchments lid until extremely tender. Finish with lemon zest, season to taste. Put a generous layer in a gratin dish top with parmiggiano reggiano cheese and broil until golden brown

Glenn Brendle

Posted 2010-12-11 17:24:34

We cheated a tiny bit.  About the cardoons, I've tasted and grown them and I wasn't all that fond.  So, I grow artichokes instead and harvest the leaf stalks as well.  No more boiling in all those changes of water.  They are so lovely, I eat them raw like celery!  Just string them slightly, cut as you like and cook like celery.  They're great creamed,  Guten appetit!

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Menu for Osteria's Michaud/Sawyer collabo dinner

POSTED: Monday, November 22, 2010, 7:08 PM

Filed Under: Chef Salad | Food Events

Jeff Michaud of Osteria (640 N. Broad st.) has sent over the menu for the "Sunday Supper" he'll cook with chef Jonathon Sawyer of Cleveland's Greenhouse Tavern. The five-course dinner (some stuzzichini before the starters, too) scheduled for this coming Sunday, Nov. 28, at 6 p.m., and a seat will run you $130, all-inclusive. (Spit-roasted veal belly sounds like something we possiblypotentiallymaybe would like to eat.) Tix here.

Stuzzichini

fried pecorino cheese canestrato

house cured beef speck with walnut mostarda

beef tongue tremezzini with butter, radishes, cucumber and cress

crispy white bait with hominy, pork skins, curly parsley and lime

1st

fresh baccala mantecato tiepido with boiled farmers potato

poached lake erie walleyed pike quenelles with burrata and preserved tom

2nd

warm porcini sformato with castelmagno fonduta

black walnut soup encroute with smoked guanciale, wintered racing onions and sage

3rd

duck ravioli with apples, pancetta and brown butter

wood fired pigs head, coca cola agro dolce, young vegetable crudite and lettuce

4th

spit roasted venison loin with persimmon salad and bitter chocolate

spit roasted veal belly with warm consommé, petite wood ear mushrooms, dry moroccan olives, preserved lemon and matsutaki

5th

meyer lemon bavarese with wild huckleberries and almond croccante

roasted ohio apple crostada with goats milk chedder and bitter caramel

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Green Aisle hooks up with Momofuku Milk Bar

POSTED: Wednesday, November 17, 2010, 6:25 PM

Filed Under: Chef Salad | Food News

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CP food critic Adam Erace's Green Aisle Grocery (1618 E. Passyunk Ave.) is about to begin carrying cookies from David Chang's Momofuku Milk Bar up in NYC. Yes, including the (in)famous Compost Cookie! From GAG's blog:

Pastry Chef Christina Tosi is best know for her Compost Cookie chock full of pretzels, potato chips, ground coffee beans, oats and butterscotch and chocolate chips. Well have those, sold by the single and in pretty six-count tins (great gifts!), as well as the rest of Milk Bars cookie line: Blueberry and Cream, Chocolate-Chocolate, Peanut Butter, Corn and Cornflake-Marshmallow.

The first shipment should be landing on P'yunk tomorrow.

NDJ

Posted 2010-11-18 11:39:37

Those cookies are amazing.

Felicia D'Ambrosio

Posted 2010-11-17 13:27:44

I am so excited to eat a Compost cookie!  This is way too close to my house to keep me on the good side of "pleasantly plump," though.

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Nov. 22: Fond/Bibou/Lacroix collaboration dinner

POSTED: Monday, November 15, 2010, 4:03 PM

Filed Under: Chef Salad | Food Events | Menu Time

Next Monday, Nov. 22, Fond partners Lee Styer, Jessie Prawlucki and Tory Keomanivong will welcome Pierre Calmels of Bibou and former Lacroix chef Jason Cichonski to East Punk for one of the most stacked Philly collab dinners we've encountered here in Philly. The five-course tasting menu is $65, and reservations are already at a premium (we hear only late tables are currently available). Check out the menu after the jump. Quartet of Tastes from each chef Sturgeon: Okinawan sweet potato, arugula, meyer lemon, black olive Escargot: braised oxtail, butternut squash, hazelnuts, sage Roasted Pheasant Breast: leg boudin blanc, red cabbage confit, salsify fricassée, naturel jus Dessert Trio: pumpkin profiteroles, chestnut dacquoise, pear and milk chocolate ice cream, spiced caramel

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Bebe's chef comes on at Fergie's

POSTED: Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 12:42 AM

Filed Under: Chef Salad

Mark Coates, of the late Bebe's Barbecue, tells Meal Ticket he's come on as the chef at Fergie's Pub (1214 Sansom St.). Coates says he'll have complete control over the approach of the menu at Fergie Carey's namesake establishment, and plans on (of course) making it a 'cue-centric operation. More details soon.

Willie

Posted 2010-11-09 09:14:08

Oh this is awesome news!!  Mark is a great bbq chef and a great person!

Fergie's to offer Irish BBQ

Posted 2010-11-09 07:47:11

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Posted 2010-11-15 08:32:16

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Sevino

Posted 2010-12-03 19:57:01

Mark's BBQ is literally the best you will EVER eat. Regardless of where you are in the country, This is the real deal from a real pit master.  It really does not get better.

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