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Free Slurpee Day is this Sunday!

POSTED: Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 8:01 PM

Filed Under: Dealage

This Sunday, July 11 (7.11, ahhh!), 7-Eleven will celebrate its 83rd birthday. They'll mark the occasion, as they've done since 2002, with Free Slurpee Day. All 7-Elevens across the country will give out free Slurpees (7.11 ounces each, ahhh!) to all customers; it just so happens that the month of July traditionally features the highest Slurpee sales of the entire year in the U.S., so here's a chance to participate without actually spending any money. We'll most likely bump into you at the Sev on the corner of 22nd and Lombard, a frequent Meal Ticket convenience haunt (it's always stocked with Utz Pork Cracklins!).

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Freeeeeeee Arby's!

POSTED: Thursday, July 1, 2010, 8:01 PM

Filed Under: Dealage | Food and Holidays

On Monday, July 5, Arby's, one of six thousand a handful of our fast-food Achilles' heels, will give out free Junior Deluxe roast beef sandwiches with the purchase of a beverage. The sandwich is not complicated it's Arby's roast beef with lettuce, tomato and mayo and it usually only costs a dollar, but free is less than a dollar. Philly's Arby's is located at 2560 Aramingo Avenue. We personally feel that America should change its go-to motto from "e pluribus unum" to "the home of the free and the delicious."

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Free Percy Street?! OK.

POSTED: Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 5:44 PM

Filed Under: Dealage

Photo | Drew Lazor

Last night, we got down at Percy Street Barbecue (900 South St.) for the first time in a minute — hi, burnt ends! — and we were very pleased. Now comes word that the South Street 'cue emporium will be giving away a bunch of free meals the week of Monday, July 12. Starting on that day and running through Friday, July 16, Percy will feed the first 20 diners in the door gratis grub — they open up at 11:30 a.m. daily. (In addition, everyone who lands a free meal will be entered into a raffle to win free lunch once a week for a year.) The five-day giveaway coincides with the restaurant's recently implemented "all-day" menu, which has combined all Percy's meats, sides, sandwiches, desserts and so forth into one accessible-anytime spread.

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Posted 2010-07-01 13:36:32

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Posted 2010-07-03 19:06:50

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Posted 2010-07-12 11:45:26

[...] Street Barbecue (900 South St.) is giving away free lunch to its first 20 lunch diners, starting today and running through this Friday, July 16. They open their doors at 11:30, so [...]

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Posted 2010-08-02 15:24:14

[...] 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.   If you see [...]

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HAPPY HOUR HOPPER: Xochitl

POSTED: Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 11:10 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 don't mind seeing beyond the boundaries of Cubicle Land. It's 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. Let's delve into it at Xochitl.

WHERE YOU AT? Headhouse has plenty of highlights — Pizzeria Stella, Bodhi Coffee, pubs like the Artful Dodger and the Dark Horse — but we're of the opinion that Xochitl (408 S. Second St.), with no disrespect to CafÃ© Nola, put the Second-and-Lombard square on the map as a dining destination. The Mexican restaurant, which even predates the wildly popular Headhouse Square Sunday farmers market, was a smash under chef Dionicio Jimenez — but he left in February to helm El Rey, and owners Steve Cook and Mike Solomonov took the opportunity to revamp both the interior and the food. New chef Lucio Palazzo now cooks a menu that's more casual than the O.G. incarnation, in a space that's a touch less stuffy and a touch more kitschy (peep the "loteria" El Diablito and El Gallo playing cards stenciled on the wall).

WHAT'S THE SCENE? Plenty of Xochitl happy hours we've hopped into in the past have been packed, but yesterday the joint was a ghost town (ciudad fantasma?) at 5:30 in the evening. Servers decked out in their dope Numero Diez futbol jerseys (where can we get one?) traipsed across the floorboards while oldies ("Can't Hurry Love," "The Wanderer") wafted through the peaceful bar side; a crestfallen and thankfully muted Andy Roddick whined about another Wimbledon failure on the TVs. A few other folks drifted into the restaurant while we were there, but we had the high-backed bar stools mostly to ourselves for this particular happy hour.

WHAT'S THE DEAL? The restaurant offers an evening happy hour every day from 5 to 7 p.m. — draft beers come down to $3 (they're typically $5) and house margaritas will set you back $5 instead of $8. (They also do a late-night happy hour Thursday to Saturday, from 10 to midnight, in the cozy downstairs lounge.) Xochitl's draft system was down for maintenance yesterday, so they applied the same $3 deal to cans of Modelo Especial (usually $4). Xochitl's bartenders make some of the best 'ritas in town (the speed with which they juice the living hell of limes is slightly hypnotic), so that should be your main focus here. Our only disappointment with this HH is the lack of a food component (how about $2 off tacos or something like that?), especially considering how good Palazzo's grub is. Peep the octopus/morcilla sausage skewers, plated atop a smear of jawsome black garlic mole.

Jesse C.

Posted 2010-06-29 21:37:49

"Peep the octopus/morcilla sausage skewers, plated atop a smear of jawsome black garlic mole" Holy crap, that looks amazing! I hope they step up their food HH game real soon. Last time I checked Aki offered 1/2 price apps and 1/2 price specialty cocktails, and select bottles of wine for HH. The apps were solid, but I would skip the rolls.

poncho

Posted 2010-06-30 11:52:47

They def should offer happy hour deals on food.  It's kinda lame they call it a happy hour and only feature 2 "deals"

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Posted 2010-07-12 14:37:02

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Summer plans and sweet dealage at MÃ©mÃ©

POSTED: Monday, June 28, 2010, 5:14 PM

Filed Under: Dealage | Food News

Photo | Drew Lazor

David Katz of MÃ©mÃ© (2201 Spruce St.) dropped us some details on a few operational tweaks — and good deals — he's running at his restaurant this summer. For the months of July and August, they'll close up shop Mondays and Tuesdays (it's usually only closed Tuesdays). From Wednesday to Saturday, they'll offer a $35 prix-fixe option in addition to the a la carte menu. Then on Sunday, they'll run a three-course dinner deal, which includes a bottle of house white or red, for $37 a head (no a la carte on this night). The menu for each Sunday meal will be posted on MÃ©mÃ©'s website and sent out via email blast the Friday before. Katz says he'll focus on cooking" cool, simple, homey stuff" for the deal — for example, the first installment, on Sunday, July 11 (they're closing for the July 4 holiday), will feature a romaine salad with green beans, hard-cooked egg red potatoes and dijon dressing; roasted organic chicken with mushroom-gruyere mac 'n' cheese, peas and chicken jus; and old-school strawberry shortcake for dessert.

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Posted 2010-06-28 12:53:42

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poncho

Posted 2010-06-28 14:53:30

I love Meme

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Posted 2010-07-03 19:06:34

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HAPPY HOUR HOPPER: North Star Bar

POSTED: Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 10:58 PM

Filed Under: Booze | Dealage | Happy Hour Hopper

WHERE YOU AT? There's not a whole lot around the North Star, on the corner 27th and Poplar in an almost exclusively residential segment of Fairmount. While it's known to most as a music venue, the North Star doubles as lively yet down-to-earth pub, dressed up with tons of antique booze-company signs (some framed, some not), Philly sports swag, show posters and assorted bric-a-brac. A couple older-looking TVs that do the trick. "Oh yeah, I've heard this song somewhere" on the music tip. Grabbed a seat with some friends at a well-worn corner table and hunkered down for pints galore.

WHAT'S THE SCENE? Neighborhood. Folks wandered in fresh out of work, waved hi to people they knew, chatted it up with the staffers they were most friendly with. Lots of smiles and chuckles and pats on the back. In a word, comfortable. A complete stranger approached our table to check out our new camera and some helpful advice on where to buy lenses for cheap; turned it out he worked as the person who rigs up high-def movie cameras on zipcords across canyons to capture footage of dudes hopping gaps on dirtbikes and stuff. Nice dude. Got wrapped in some ridiculous stories being told at our table so didn't get much of a chance to chat up anyone else, but our server was sweet and showed up at all the rights times.

WHAT'S THE DEAL? The deal is dope as shit, that's what it is. Every single day — Monday to Sunday, yeah son — it's half off all draft beers and well liquor, plus 25-cent buffalo wings, from 5:30 to 7:30. Happy happy happy! (The poster promises that HH is "eight days a week," then is sure to point that that's a "not so obscure" music reference.) North Star's draft list is pretty mainstream, meaning it won't make extreme beer geeks drool or anything, but it's solid enough — I downed two Dogfish Head 60-Minute IPAs, tore through a dozen wings and left the joint less than $10 poorer. Badass. Though the bar's a bit far-flung for us from home and work, North Star's happy hour is one we'll most definitely hop back to.

Ashley

Posted 2010-06-23 10:35:41

This is a great deal! Half of 60 minute? Awesome.

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Posted 2010-06-25 17:06:16

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All-you-can-eat sushi returns at Pod

POSTED: Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 4:34 PM

Filed Under: Dealage | Food Events

The eat-till-you-drop sushi deal at Pod (3636 Sansom St.), which was a hit in the winter, is back at the Starr joint starting tonight. The $25 deal, which'll be offered on Tuesdays from 7 to 10 p.m. throughout the summer, includes a wide selection of amki, nigiri and hand rolls, plus $8 carafes of sake and wine. Pod has instituted a couple guidelines for this go-'round, presumably influenced by the people who were ill-prepared for the challenges inherent to an AYCE deal. In a sort of Japanese naggy-mom move, you will not be permitted to order more until your plate's clean (you will be charged for leftovers, showoffs!). Also, no sharing (if you're eating, you're paying 25 bones), no modifications (stop trying to replace everything with kani!) and no doggie bags.

RSR

Posted 2010-06-22 12:41:47

Nice!  We'd already booked a babysitter for tonight and were looking for something to do.  I think we found it.

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RSR

Posted 2010-06-23 11:20:22

We went.  Very good service, very good food.  Sake mojito special was quite nice.  Meter parking was adequate--within a block--being Tuesday evening.  We made a reservation on OpenTable, and while the place was far from empty, there didn't seem to be a wait to sit at 7:30.

One note:  the server didn't mention wine other than sake as part of the special (nor did we ask).

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The Franklin goes halfsies for the summer

POSTED: Thursday, June 17, 2010, 9:17 PM

Filed Under: Booze | Dealage

The Franklin Mortgage & Investment Co. (112 S. 18th St.), one of our fave mixed-drink nooks, is rolling out what they're calling a "half cocktail menu" to mark its first year in the booze business. Starting this coming Monday, June 21 from 5 to 7 p.m. and running weekdays through Labor Day, the bar will offer eight drinks — about half the size of their normal pour, but also half the price ($6) — to allow drinkers to taste through more cocktails than is typically socially acceptable. Opening tipples will include summer-friendly drinks like the classic daiquiri, The Kensington (bourbon, dry and sweet vermouths, Peychaud's bitters and orange marmalade, served up) and the Queens Park Swizzle (lime juice, mint, dark rum, sugar, bitters).

Ben Kessler

Posted 2010-06-17 16:23:31

The Kensington sounds fantastic. Was wondering when Philly would get some jam cocktails.

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HAPPY HOUR HOPPER: The Continental

POSTED: Tuesday, June 15, 2010, 11:22 PM

Filed Under: Booze | Dealage | Happy Hour Hopper

WHERE YOU AT? Come on son, it's The Continental! Stephen Starr's very first restaurant, on the corner of Second and Market, opened in 1995, but it's never featured a happy hour — until last Monday, when they quietly rolled one out. (Perhaps to get some use out of theeir new draft system.) While the long-running martini bar's kitschy, shoutout-to-Shag phosphorescent lounge-lizard thing surely felt fresher 15 years ago (Best Picture: Forrest Gump), the place still hops from noon to night, so they're doing something right. Hell, what is the point of even attempting to describe The Continental when you can just watch this TV commercial?

WHAT'S THE SCENE? Since happy hour here is just seven days old, the scene could be described as "us." There was no one around, really. One or two other folks trickled in while we were finishing up (happy hour's available in the back of the restaurant only, which features abundant bar and booth seating), but we were lone-rangering it for a minute there. Bartender Christine was a total sweetheart and walked us through the deals ...

WHAT'S THE DEAL? ... which are actually pretty exceptional. Weekdays from 5 to 7, they offer $3 beers, $4 wines by the glass, $5 cocktails and $1, $2 and $4 eats. We ordered up a Yards Philly Pale, a glass of white and some sort of mojito/martini hybrid (if we're being real, you're not really gonna find us messing with the mixed drinks, no thank to you a Tang-coated rim), plus four bites — a crispy chicken dumpling and a Viet summer roll (a buck a pop) and sesame cracker-topped ahi tuna tartare and lobster mac (two bucks a pop). Christine made it clear from the outset that the prices directly reflect the portion sizes — each of the eats, classified as "tapas bites" here, came in precious little soup spoons. These dishes aren't going to win any commendations for originality (one local chef we know is fond of referring to this style of grub as "white boy Asian food"), but we always haul out props where props are due: Everything tasted fresh as hell and we could see ourselves dropping five or so bucks a couple spoons every so often. Strong work. Happy hour for two, with multiple drinks and multiple bites, rang in at under $20.

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poncho

Posted 2010-06-15 21:01:22

Thank you for making me realize that commercial exists.

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Tonight: City Paper's A Moveable Feast Happy Hour kicks off at Mac's Tavern

POSTED: Thursday, June 10, 2010, 5:11 PM

Filed Under: Booze | Dealage

It was a hit last year, and now it's back — A Moveable Feast, the CP-sponsored Thursday happy hour, kicks off for 2010 tonight at the brand-new Mac's Tavern (226 Market St.). AMF, which runs from 5 to 7 (see upcoming venues at citypaper.net/moveablefeast), features sweet deals on beers like Leffe, Stella and Hoegaarden, plus complimentary appetizers. We'll see y'all there.

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