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Jessie Prawlucki, one third of the team at Meal Ticket fave Fond (1617 E. Passyunk Ave.), reports her days-from-opening pastry shop, Belle Cakery (1437 E. Passyunk Ave.), passed its health inspection on Wednesday. Seated across the street from the P.O.P.E. (1501 E. Passyunk Ave.), a mere block away from Fond, Belle will be an easy commute for Prawlucki, who’ll be doing all the restaurant's baking here. She's already accepting orders for holiday desserts like brown butter apple tarts, pumpkin cheesecakes and amaretto truffles. (Full Thanksgiving menu after the jump; click to enlarge.) To place an order, email the cakery at bellecakery@gmail.com and stayed tuned to Meal Ticket to updates and pictures.
The sandwich shop offshoot of Percy Street Barbecue (900 South St.), which we first mentioned back in August, is just about ready to start piling smoked meat on bread — Steve Cook, Michael Solomonov and Erin O'Shea will start serving from their new digs in the Market & Shops at Comcast Center (17th Street and JFK Blvd., 215-964-9014) this coming Monday, Nov. 7, at 10 a.m. Peep the full menu after the jump (click to enlarge); to stuff the lunch crowds, they'll be offering a sandwich/side/drink combo for $10, tax included. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; closed Sun.
Photo: Neal Santos
Last Sunday, budding food truck impresario Matthew "Feldie" Feldman rolled out Lucky Old Souls Burger Truck, the mobile brand ambassador of his forthcoming jazz den (17th and McKean), at the Switched-On Garden event. Now he's flipping burgers at LOVE Park Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11 to 3, and Meal Ticket has the menu.
“The beef is from grass-fed cows raised in Lancaster County, and almost everything is locally sourced,” says Feldman, who’s also crafting his own ketchup, bacon (from Country Time pork bellies), mayo and two flavored mayos (bacon and garlic) for the truck. Fries are hand-cut, sliced tomato only available in season. To drink, think Bassetts ice cream milkshakes and malts, plus fun made-to-order sodas sweetened with syrups from Brooklyn's P&H Soda Co. — "Really cool flavors, too, like sarsaparilla, hibiscus and lovage." Full rundown after the jump (click to enlarge). On the weekends, looks for the LOS Burger Truck at arts-focused events; keep your eyes peeled to their Twitter for details.
Photo: A.D. Amorosi
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.
Word from on high is that Molly Malloy's, the Iovine Bros. Produce-backed gastropub replacing the ancient beer garden in Reading Terminal Market (12th and Arch), will open next week, most likely on Tuesday. Malloy's, named for Jimmie and Vinnie Iovine's mother, first made its mark by winning the 2011 Scrapplefest, and they're now ready to put their opening menu out there. Peek after the jump at chef Bobby Fisher's selection of starters, salads, entrées and cold and hot sandwiches (including a "Not-Your-Mama's" grilled cheese, on brioche with goat cheese, black pepper fennel/onion jam and sautéed spinach). The pub will have 24 taps and run happy hour daily from 4 to 6 p.m., in a legit push to make shopper- and conventioneer-friendly RTM more of a hang.
Yesterday we shared a handful of details on Sbraga, chef Kevin Sbraga's much-anticipated restaurant opening Saturday in the Symphony House at Broad and Pine. Today we've got a look inside the space — a dramatically different look and feel from its predecessor — plus the opening menu.
Every trace of the flashy, shortlived Chew Man Chu is Chew Man Through, but Sbraga held onto a few of the design elements for practical purposes — for example, that restaurant had a slew of odd goldfish sticker-adorned plates affixed to the wall behind the bar, which the chef was able to remove, strip, clean and save. (They're perfectly good plates, after all.) In fact, something like 80 percent of the materials Sbraga used to revamp the corner restaurant are repurposed. Philly-based firm AP3C Architects saved the Douglas fir slats you see dressing the dining room pillars and panels from a defunct textile mill in Fishtown, and the marble topping the bar and and open kitchen line was salvaged, as well.
Sbraga isn't following any particular culinary path where the food's concerned — "The only discipline is that it tastes good," he says. French, Italian and Southeast Asian influences are represented in careful stead on the menu, set up as a four-course prix-fixe for those at dining room tables and a la carte for bar denizens. Check it out in full after the jump (click to enlarge). Sbraga opens to the public this Saturday; 215-735-1913 for tables.
Over the past few months, residents of and passers-through East Passyunk have seen the slow transformation of Doggy Style's old daycare quarters into Birra (12th and Morris). Well, the wait is over, as owner Gordon Dinerman says he'll unveil the craft beer bar and wood-oven pizzeria the end of this month. Meal Ticket has the full opening menus in PDF form here and here. Expect family-style "plates" of salumi, cheeses and crudo, plus panini, salads, whole roasted branzino and baked meatballs in "our gravy." (Nice nod to the hood, G.) For the 12-inch, thin-crust pizzas, Birra offers 14 styles, as well as build-your-own option that starts at $6. Taleggio and "gabagool," here we come.
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.
Here's a peek at the brand-new fall drink and food menus at Zavino (112 S. 13th St.). Chef Brent Hazelbaker has come up with small-plate autumnal dishes, like wild boar ragu over garganelli and crisped octopus with shaved fennel in a Castletrevano olive vinaigrette, to go along with new pizzas like the "Green Apple" (apple, gruyere, Nueske's bacon) and a regularly tweaked all-veg "Garden" pie. There are also two nights left for you to check out the wine bar's "Taste of Rioja" promo, featuring the versatile Spanish wine matched with regionally inspired tapas and pizzas. Check out both menus in full after the jump (click to enlarge).
Rich Landau, who's just a few weeks away from opening Vedge (1221 Locust St.) with his wife and partner Kate Jacoby, sends along an early peek at the all-vegan restaurant's beer and cocktail lists, dinner menu and dessert selection. The "dirt list" heading you see under the small-plate dinner menu (figure on three-ish plates per person) will not comprise servings of organic topsoil, but rather a constantly rotating lineup of seasonal vegetables Landau lands from his Lancaster County farm contacts. Jacoby, in addition to being a pastry chef, has also become quite the cocktail head since Horizons, so the drink list is a reflection of her vision, as well. Peruse them all after the jump, read up on the concept here and stay tuned to Meal Ticket for further word on this much-anticipated opening.
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