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Meal Ticket Supplement, Fall/Winter 2010

POSTED: Friday, November 19, 2010, 7:44 PM

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Photos | Neal Santos

Every so often, we pop a little Meal Ticket into the print edition of City Paper. For our latest MT supplement, we put together two fun little pieces for y'all: - In his primi primer, Adam Erace rounds up some unusual pasta shapes being twisted, pulled and pinched in Philly kitchens. Check it out to find out what the chefs at Mémé, Paradiso, Garces Trading Co., Modo Mio and other spots are up to. - Philly's uptick of cocktail destinations is reason alone to raise a glass but what if you don't know what's in that glass to begin with? We chat with bartenders at some of our favorite joints The Franklin, Noble and Oyster House, just to name a few to get the lowdown on some of the more obscure spirits finding their way into seriouscocktails around town.

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IN PRINT: City Paper Food and Restaurants, Nov. 18

POSTED: Thursday, November 18, 2010, 9:21 PM

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Photo | Neal Santos

- Adam Erace is rather wowed by his meals at Barbuzzo, and our critic feels quite strongly that Marcie Turney and Valerie Safran's hit spot is the best new restaurant in Philly. Do you agree? Regardless, pick us up an order of those meatballs for dinner, cool? - We write up Recipes Every Man Should Know, a handy-dandy pocket cooking guide from Philly's Quirk Books. - Lots of food/drink events in the coming days, as broken down by Rachel Burgos in What's Cooking: Peep info on a Sixpoint draft takeover at City Tap House, P&K's country night, a historical dining seminar and more. - Feeding Frenzy has details on new spots like Village Belle, Jet Wine Bar and Flying Saucer Café. - We'll elaborate further tomorrow, but for now peep online versions of the two pieces that appear in our latest Meal Ticket Print Supplement: Adam Erace's rundown of peculiar pasta shapes taking over Philly, and an informative rundown of the not-so-common spirits employed by our city's best cocktail makers.

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IN PRINT: City Paper Food and Restaurants, Nov. 11

POSTED: Thursday, November 11, 2010, 7:39 PM

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Photo | Neal Santos

- This Sunday, the Old City BYOB Chloe celebrates a decade in business. Opening in the early days of the Philly BYOB craze, Mary Ann Ferrie and Dan Grimes' restaurant hasn't changed much at all over 10 years and that's what makes them special. - Adam Erace knocks on the bullet-proof glass at Circles in South Philly, and is rewarded with consistently delicious Thai food. - Feeding Frenzy has details on three of this week's hot-off-the-grill openings: the Khyber Pass Pub, Krispy Kreme and Chris' Taco Stand. - Rachel Burgos breaks down all the sweet-ass food/drink events going down in the coming week in What's Cooking. Check out details on Greensgrow Whole Hog, Phiz Fest, a cool chef collabo and Johnny Brenda's Wet Hop Rodeo (yeehaw!). - In our comprehensive cover package on the First Person Arts Festival, you will find Josh Middleton's pick on My Salvation Has a First Name, comedian Robin Gelfenbien's show about driving through America in the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile. The show is tomorrow night at Painted Bride.

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IN PRINT: City Paper Food and Restaurants, Oct. 28

POSTED: Thursday, October 28, 2010, 7:33 PM

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Photo | Neal Santos

M's roasted chicken

-Adam Erace checks into M at the Morris House Hotel and find new chef (and Per Se alumnus) Michael Caspi, not the restaurant's fabled garden, is the real reason to visit. -It's been 50 years since Dalessandro's started slinging cheesesteaks in Roxborough, and Carolyn Wyman has the fixture's history as told by family members, long-time waitresses and regulars like the awesomely named Suzi Dooley. -Some particulars on the Bottle Shop, Baby Blues BBQ and more in Feeding Frenzy.

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IN PRINT: City Paper Food and Restaurants, Oct. 21

POSTED: Thursday, October 21, 2010, 2:29 PM

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Photos | Neal Santos

- We get our nacatamal on at El Gallo Pinto, a little South Philly corner grocery that also happens to put out homey and delicious Central American cooking. Visit over the weekend for the soups, and visit any other day for everything else. - Adam Erace visits the recently renovated Mustard Greens, which has been going strong for nearly 20 years just off South, and finds that the Cantonese-style cooking is just as tasty and relevant as ever. - Rachel Burgos runs down a bunch of great food/drink events for the coming week in What's Cooking, including a sweet-sounding ragtime party at Noble and this weekend's 10th annual Reading Terminal Market harvest festival. - New locations for Café L'Aube and Good Karma are but a few of the openings detailed in the latest edition of Feeding Frenzy. - We'll post more about this later, but a huge congrats to The Food Trust for winning a City Paper Big Vision Award.

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IN PRINT: City Paper Food and Restaurants, Oct. 14

POSTED: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 2:00 PM

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Photo | Neal Santos

- Adam Erace explores the options at Adsum, where chef Matthew Levin is giving a big F.U. to fine dining. He digs the chef'sf original, accessible menu, peppered with creative strokes like popcorn puree, freeze-dried hickory smoke and Kool Aid-pickled watermelon. - New York Times columnist Mark Bittman has released The Food Matters Cookbook, a collection of 500 recipes designed around the Minimalist's eat-mostly-plants dietary plan. If you can get over your petty food grudges, you'll find that's it's a rather invaluable resource. - Rachel Burgos has plenty of food-event info for you in What's Cooking check details on SPTR's upcoming Farmhouse Ale dinner, word on Eagles specials at Percy Street and more. - JG Domestic, Biba and Blackbird are three of the openings outlined in the latest edition of Feeding Frenzy.

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IN PRINT: City Paper Food and Restaurants, Sept. 23

POSTED: Thursday, September 23, 2010, 4:26 PM

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- Adam Erace checks out Mac's Tavern, the Old City tavern with partial It's Always Sunny ownership, and discovers a solid beer selection, friendly bartenders and food that skews more straight-up pub than gastropub. - We chat with Kim O'Donnel, the national food writer and Philly native, about her new The Meat Lover's Meatless Cookbook, designed to introduce hearty vegetarian meals to carnivorous lifestyles. - What's Cooking has word on Zahav chef Michael Solomonov's upcoming farmstead dinner, a Stephen Starr/SPTR collab, this weekend's huge Vendemmia wine festival and more. - Three new spots highlighted in the latest Feeding Frenzy: Philadelphia Chutney Company, Hop Angel Brauhaus and the new location for Four Worlds Bakery.

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IN PRINT: City Paper Food and Restaurants, Sept. 16

POSTED: Thursday, September 16, 2010, 5:03 PM

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Photo | Neal Santos

- OK, so the liquid nitrogen gelato (above) is definitely a show, but Adam Erace discovers that there's a quite a lot to like at The Piazza's Italian restaurant Apollinare. Just one thing: Where are all the customers? - Philadelphia's chefs are a bunch of tweeting fools. Here's a quickie roundup of some of our favorite status-updating local cooks, where to find them and samples of their finest 140-character-or-less work. - In What's Cooking, Rachel Burgos breaks down the impending sausagefest at Standard Tap, a duo of homage-to-Burgundy dinners at Bistrot La Minette, some Oktoberfest festivities and more. - Details on new Fishtown café The Lola Bean, a new owner for Reading Terminal's Flying Monkey, cupcakes, Lebanese food, hotel restaurants, Stephen Starr Brit-pubs and so forth in Feeding Frenzy.

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IN PRINT: City Paper Food and Restaurants, September 9

POSTED: Friday, September 10, 2010, 12:25 AM

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- Adam Erace visits the very swanky Tweed, where he's mostly impressed by chef David Cunningham's hyper-local cooking style at the "American eatery named for the cloth favored by English professors and librarian watchers everywhere." Look at that house-cured salmon trio! Bella. (Can you believe we made it through this entire blurb without dropping a single ill-conceived Top Gun homage?) - We review Caz Hildebrand and Jacob Kenedy's The Geometry of Pasta, an exhaustive A-to-Z cookbook that covers everything you ever needed to know about Italy's chief specialty. What makes it different? Hildebrand, a noted graphic designer, celebrates the many beautiful shapes that occur in pastacraft in the form of hypnotic, Op Art-style black-and-white illustrations. London-based chef Kenedy's recipes are fun and easy to follow, too. Rad. - What's Cooking? There's some good stuff coming up, including the launch of Linvilla Orchards' Pumpkinland (it's fall?!), the kick-off of Restaurant Week, next week's SNAP cocktail mix-off (we're judging!) and a Food Trust happy hour at SPTR.

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IN PRINT: City Paper Food and Restaurants, Sept. 2

POSTED: Thursday, September 2, 2010, 11:05 PM

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- Adam Erace forges his way through deep South Philly "Cannoli Alley," if you will and lands a seat at Sky Café, a family-run Indonesian eatery at 15th and Ritner. After multiple visits he's left thoroughly impressed by chef Lily Tjia's "startlingly complex" soups and noodle dishes. - It's been more than 20 years since CP staff writer Isaiah Thompson left the heavily Mexican neighborhood of Pilsen in his hometown of Chicago, but he's never forgotten the fresh-pressed tortillas. Lucky for him, then, that he's found the Italian Market's Tortilleria y San Roman, where the Rivera family cranks out calentitas just for Philly. - What's Cooking is stuffed with food/drink picks for those of us staying in Philly over the long Labor Day Weekend. Oyster House, Johnny Brenda's, Supper and several other spots have special stuff going on, so take advantage. - Details on three new openings Barbuzzo, Berry Sweet and PBandU in Feeding Frenzy.

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