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Food and Sports
Like bikes? Like farmers? Then fasten your helmets: Saturday, July 23, marks the sixth annual Urban Farm Bike Tour sponsored by Weaver’s Way Co-op. That morning, two rides will launch from (and end at) the Awbury Arboretum (1011 E. Washington Ln.) in East Mount Airy. The longer tour departs at 8:30 — be there before 8, sleepyheads — and rolls from Roxborough to Brewerytown to South Philly to Hunting Park and back, making eight stops at urban farms along the way. The shorter tour departs at 9:15, but arrives back at the Arboretum at the same time, 3 p.m., for a big-ass barbecue lubricated with lots of local beer. Want to participate? That’ll be $28 in advance, please ($25 for Co-op members), or $30 at the door. Which of course has us wondering: Can skip the exercise and just come straight to the barbecue?
Photo: weaversway.coop
On July 24, teams from Konstantinos Pitsillides' Kanella (1001 Spruce St.) and Marc Vetri's three Philly restaurants will square off in a fullscale, 11-on-11 soccer match in Fairmount to determine who's best at The Beautiful Game. Pitsillides, who actually played semi-pro ball both in his native Cyprus and in England, says he's pulling together a roster of his servers, cooks and dishwashers — "People that I know can kick the ball, hopefully" — to run up against Vetri's squad. They'll host a training session early next week. The chef, who promises more than a few slide-tackles, says he'll be playing a defensive-minded, Bill Russell-style player/manager role on his team. No official smacktalk from Vetri yet — he's a veteran of inter-restaurant athletic competitions, battling Jose Garces each year in a Thanksgiving-day football game — but we'll surely update when he chimes in.
Our Flyers have their hockey backs against the hockey wall (both technical terms) tonight, down 3 games to none to the Boston Bruins in the East Conference semis. Since Game 4 goes down in Boston, it seems like a good evening to wrangle up the crew and order in. SeamlessWeb, a delivery-and-takeout online hub/iPhone, Droid and BlackBerry app that works with some 250 restaurants in Philly, has tossed Meal Ticket a $50 gift card to give away to our readers.
Want the goods for tonight's game? Real easy: Between now at 4:30 p.m. today, leave a comment on this post describing which SeamlessWeb restaurant you'd order from, and why. Full list of Philly spots that accept SeamlessWeb here. We'll pick our favorite answer and inform the winner via email. Good luck, and go Flyers!
UPDATE [12:58 p.m.]: Just to clarify, you don't have to spend the $50 tonight. You can use it anytime.
UPDATE [4:37 p.m.]: Check out the winning comment, from Andy B, below.
I would order from Sang Kee, so that by the third period I'll be in a hoisin sauce coma with duck fat all over my face instead of watching the Flyers' third goalie of the night flailing around on the ice.
And now, a rare instance of Philly food meets exhibition sports news: Tomorrow at 11 a.m., two exquisitely nicknamed Harlem Globetrotters — Big Easy Lofton and Buckets Blakes — will be taking their to the streets to debut a brand-new 4-point shot as part of their "4 Times The Fun" Tour at — you guessed it — Famous 4th Street Deli (700 S. Fourth St.). As usual, they’re doin' it for the kids and bringing students from the nearby St. Peter’s School to cheer them on as they sink shots from 35 feet out (that's 12 feet beyond the NBA's 3-point line). So follow the whistled tune of "Sweet Georgia Brown" to Fourth and Bainbridge for a giant pastrami on rye and a big taste of Globetrotter glory.
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Ben Kemp and Kyle Piasecki helped work on the reopening of The Legendary Dobbs and did a fantastic job. There is no doubt in my mind they will help Jason and RedZone be equally as fantastic
R.I.P. Cafe Spice. Thank you for serving me that drink when I was underage.
pretty amazed they haven't been ceased and desisted by the NFL for that name...
Hope they don't become another nuisance bar like Cafe Spice was.
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