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Last week, we happily announced that Stateside (1536 E. Passyunk Ave.), the American small-plate and whiskey bar from Stephen Slaughter, William Bonforte and the Green Eggs posse, had found a chef in former Barbuzzo chef de cuisine and Pub & Kitchen lineman George Sabatino. We also teased about a pre-opening pop-up that was in the works, and today we have all the details.
Sabatino will be cooking a five-course preview at the South Philly Green Eggs (1306 Dickinson St.) on Saturday, Oct. 29. Think oysters with pomegranate mignonette, braised beef cheeks and the charcuterie skills (foie/butternut mousse, rabbit rillettes) that made us swoon at Barbuzzo. The dinner is $55 per person, including complimentary sips of Stateside's signature cocktails. Seatings are at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.; call Green Eggs for reservations or email at statesidephilly@yahoo.com. We’ve got the full menu after the jump.
Chef Massimo Bruno, well-known for his spirited Italian supper clubs held in his kitchen studio in downtown Toronto, is headed south to Philly next week to put on a show at Cook (253 S. 20th St.). Scheduled for next Thursday, Oct. 27, the multi-course meal will highlight the cuisine of Bruno's home region of Puglia, with plenty of educational breaks sprinkled throughout. (Get a taste of the chef's jovial style above.) The dinner, which is being put on in partnership with Art in the Age (handling cocktails), Teaspoons and Petals (after-dinner tea) and Mavea Inspired Water (each guest will leave with their filtration pitcher), is a private affair, but Meal Ticket's landed a pair of seats that we want to give away to a hungry and deserving reader.
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Nicole Rossi told you about it in What's Cooking, but here's a reminder to check out this Sunday's High Steaks Chefs' Showdown on the block outside Square 1682 (Hotel Palomar, 121 S. 17th St.). As you've likely gathered from the name, the competition will involve a roster of Philly chefs — 1682's Guillermo Tellez, R2L/MidAtlantic's Daniel Stern, Paradiso's Lynn Rinaldi, Fish's Mike Stollenwerk and defending champ Peter Woolsey of Bistrot La Minette among them — handling a deceptive task: whipping up interpretations of the cheesesteak. Which direction they'll go with their renditions is TBD, as there are no real rules in place regarding how classic or how nouveau each chef can go — should be interesting. I'll have the great pleasure of sitting on the judges' panel along with folks like WMMR's Matt Cord, GPTMC prez Meryl Levitz and Pat's owner Frank Olivieri Jr.
Proceeds from the event, which runs from 3 to 5 p.m., benefit Philadelphia Academies Inc. Admission is $20 and includes cheesesteak samples (Victory will be selling beer on the block); tix are available here.
Adriane Appleby, who launched the pastry programs at Amada (217-219 Chestnut St.) and Tinto (114 S. 20th St.), has created a series of local, accessible, hands-on instructional baking courses dubbed Oh, You Bake.
Appleby, who hosts her classes in the kitchen at Green Line Café (4239 Baltimore Ave.), says the idea to share her knowledge in an intimate setting came to her when she was working at Betty's Speakeasy (2241 Grays Ferry Ave.) after leaving Jose Garces' orbit to do her own thing. "On a daily basis, I was having conversations with people asking how we make everything," says Appleby, currently baking at NoLibs' 1 Shot Coffee (217 W. George St.). "All our customers were really interested in what we were doing in the kitchen."
The Oh, You Bake schedule offers both an eight-week workshop that meets on consecutive Mondays ($400) and one-off classes that take place on Tuesdays ($50), with each three-hour session focused on a different topic. While the workshop builds on baking basics, covering pastries, cookies, quickbreads and cakes with an emphasis on progressing one's overall skills, the Tuesday classes are more thematic — Oct. 25, for example, will see Appleby whipping up Halloween cookies, with the weeks after tackling cupcakes (Nov. 1), jams and preserves (Nov. 8) and pies (Nov. 15). "The classes are super hands-on, and they deal a lot with the actual science of baking, the chemistry going on in each recipe," says Appleby. Ingredients are included in the cost of the class, and of course you get to take everything you make home with you.
Appleby's next eight-week workshop kicks off on Oct. 24 and space is limited. Her website, addysmaes.com, launches Oct. 17, but in the meantime you can get more info by emailing ohyoubake@addysmaes.com.
I feel like Hot Diggity! (630 South St.) just like gets me, man. First they put out all these delicious hot dogs with lovely stuff stacked on top of them then they announce their intentions to eventually introduce craft beer in bottles, and now they've revealed that they're launching a series of bad movie nights. (Have you seen the movies I review for CP?) On Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 9:30 p.m., the Diggity crew will host a BYOB viewing of Troll 2, the cult classic widely considered to be one of the shittiest flicks of all time. (It was the subject of the recent documentary Best Worst Movie.) Available at the shop, $20 tickets include admission, hot dogs, access to a build-your-own toppings bar, fries with dipping sauces, milkshakes and spicy kettle corn popcorn. OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDD! Co-owner Keith Garabedian says they hope to host these screenings biweekly; seminal titles such as Samurai Cop, The Wicker Man, The Room and Plan 9 From Outer Space are on the short list.
UPDATE [5 p.m.]: Unfortunate for us, Garabedian checks in with bummer news that Hot Diggity! will not be introducing beer in the future after all. That's OK, though — you can always BYO, and they're rolling out a selection of craft sodas this weekend. Expect options like Bruce Cost Ginger Ale, Fentimans Dandelion, Maine Root Blueberry, the infamous Moxie and Philly-fave Levis Champ Cherry.
For anyone who loves coffee as much as we do at Meal Ticket, check out the collab between Pumpkin (1713 South St.) and Philly Fair Trade Roasters this week. For three days, Oct. 11 to 13, chef Christopher Kearse will serve a $35 coffee-inspired tasting designed along with Joseph Cesa of Philly Fair Trade. Start the night with an infused amuse of Granny Smith apple custard with the flavors of a Nicaraguan medium roast blend, followed by three joltin' courses — long neck butternut squash cooked in coffee oil with coffee-cured foie; Berkshire pork shoulder brined in coffee; and chocolate cake and fig pate de fruit served with a Ugandan Vienna roast. Full menu details after the jump; for reservations, call 215-545-4448. Don’t forget Pumpkin is BYOB and cash-only.
The Monday-night dinner series at Cafe Estelle (444 N. Fourth St.) welcomes the fall with a $55 six-course on Oct. 17. Think cauliflower soup (with marinated mackerel and fried salami), butternut ravs (dusted with crushed amaretti cookies), apple turnovers (with caramel apple ice cream) and more from chef/owner Marshall Green. Optional wine pairings from Moore Brothers, too. Call 215-925-5080 for reservations after checking out the full menu after the jump.
Though it's a little late in the Oktoberfest season at this point, that's not stopping Philadelphia Bar & Restaurant (120 Market St.) from getting down with its own homage to the 200-year-old Bavarian celebration of beer. Tomorrow, Oct. 8, from noon to 6 p.m., PBR is converting into a beer garden serving more than a dozen locally produced German-style beers, as well as brewed options from across the sea. The menu will boast traditional German fare: Bratwurst, Knockwurst, Bauernwurst, Currywurst and Drei Im Weckla (three sausages on a roll), all with plenty of sauerkraut. If you’re looking for something small to nibble, opt for the street food selections — soft pretzels with beer mustard, Fasnacht (German doughnuts) or Schnecken (triangle-shaped mini cinnamon buns). Tim Carroll will provide live music on acoustic guitar, as well as German waltzes, polkas and folk songs on the accordion.
Craft beer tastings are popping up all over the place, and this fall you’ll have a new spot to taste some brews. The American Swedish Historical Museum (1900 Pattison Ave.) is its first-ever beer/Swedish food tasting, known as SmorgasBeer'd (clever, huh?), on Saturday, Oct. 15. Triumph Brewing's Philly branch will be there with their Oktoberfest, and other spots on hand will be Malvern's McKenzie Brew House, Yards and South Philly's The Bottle Shop. Go for the beer, but eat the food, too: ASHM will be serving up Swedish meatballs, mini sausages, cheeses and more. If you get tickets by Monday, Oct. 10, ASHM will give you five for $100, as opposed to $25 each, so tell your drinking buddies.
When Eric Ripert brought Jennifer Carroll to his 10 Arts at the Ritz-Carlton in 2008, she became a favored chef — of mine, of the city and of viewers of Bravo's Top Chef, where audiences got two looks at the blonde Philadelphian, in both a regular season and its All-Stars session. "From Eric, I definitely learned patience, how to have refinement in my food and how to edit myself," Carroll told me the other day. "But now I have to go. If I don't get out now I won't have the opportunity to see what's out there for me."
With that, Carroll left her post at 10 Arts, but not with a quiet goodbye or even a singularly Carroll-centric meal. Instead, she invited a rogue's gallery of friends, chefs and mixologists to join her in her farewell to Broad and Chestnut, as well as for the Celebrity Chef Tour Dinner that benefits the James Beard Foundation.
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