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Archive: January, 2012
New England and New York may be playing each other on the field this coming Sunday, but they're also facing off in a culinary match for the Supper Bowl. Mitch Prensky and the fellas at Lemon Hill (745 N. 25th St.) have crafted a menu of dishes from each region — think chowders, pizzas (Brooklyn sausage/peppers, New Haven-style clam pie), pastrami-brined wings (above), sandwiches and dessert (Boston cream pie and NY cheesecake, of course). For $42, guests can enjoy the all-you-can-eat spread and enter a prize pool. They'll have Miller High Life and High Life Light on special for $3, as well as Al Sotack's Old Fashioned for $7. Lemon Hill will open at 5, the buffet's at 5:30 and the game starts at 6:30. Call 215-232-2270 to make your required reservation.
If you'd rather hang at home, Lemon Hill's sister restaurant, Supper (926 South St.), will be doing takeout packages. Make sure you order yours by noon on Friday, Feb. 3, though. Peep the choices after the jump.
If you're looking for an alternative to buffalo wings for Super Bowl Sunday, Cookie Confidential (517 S. Fifth St.) has got you: Owner Melissa Torre, already well-known for her cheesesteak cookies, has created a hot wing cookie as part of her line of savory desserts. It's got all the necessary wing accoutrement: blue cheese, chicken, hot sauce (courtesy of PrettyGirlsCook.com) and celery salt. "It's just as decadent as a sweet cookie, and satisfying in a whole other way," says Torre. "I think cookies have long been the underdogs in the dessert world ... I'm just trying to push them to their full, and delicious, potential." Help her accomplish this very worthy goal by copping some at $1.35 apiece, $7.90 for a half dozen or $14.80 for a dozen.
Photo: Courtesy of Cookie Confidential
The Philly Roller Girls and The Abbaye (637 N. Third St.) have joined forces for the second annual Vegan Wing Bowl, to be held this Saturday, Feb. 4, one day after its decidedly non-vegan counterpart. Starting at 4 p.m. sharp, seitan enthusiasts will have two minutes (the approximate length of a roller derby song) to eat as many "wings" as they can. The $20 regisgtration fee gets participants a Vegan Wing Bowl tee and unlimited beer or soda in addition to the right to compete. For those who don't think they're up to the challenge but want to bear witness to the proceeding, Abbaye's got you covered — spectating is free, Cricket Hill will be on tap for $2 and they'll offer a two-bucks-off wing special. Register for the event by calling 215-627-6711.
Notes from the Weekend is a feature that sees the members of Team Meal Ticket compiling all the food/drink highlights uncovered during prime eatin' time, Friday to Sunday. Consider this a place for good deals, great dishes, wicked cocktails, recipe triumphs (and tragedies), bizarro conversations and more. We're eager to share our notes, but especially excited to read yours.We encourage you to leave notes from YOUR weekend in the comments. Have at it! (View past NFTW installments at citypaper.net/notes.)
Stopped by London Grill (2301 Fairmount Ave.) last week to eyeball the room they're unveiling as Paris Wine Bar next Thursday, Feb. 9.
Accessible via both London's 23rd Street entrance and a dedicated door on Fairmount, the Paris space was most recently an insurance office; before this, it was London Grill Next Door, a coffeeshop owner Terry Berch McNally operated until 2009. Now, McNally and beverage manager Cristina Tessaro have brought in a state-of-the-art MicroMatic draft system (above) for their specialized, new-to-Philly concept — a bar pouring a kegged selection of wines strictly from Pennsylvania.
Today marks the grand opening of Green Olives (1941 E. Passyunk Ave.), a North African BYOB that replaces the short-lived Albanian BYOB Mondial Café. (DL had a funny experience there.) The former owners of Casablanca, a Moroccan spot just off City Line Avenue, are behind the Passyunk shop, which has been serving coffee and pastries for about a week. Crowd-pleasing pickies like mozzarella sticks make an appearance on the menu, but the focus is mostly Moroccan: tagines, kebabs, couscous, etc. (Menus in full after the jump; click to enlarge.) Green Olives is open daily, from 7 a.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. They're open till 11 every night.
In early 2011, the owners of Pub & Kitchen (1946 Lombard St.) formally announced their intention to open a small Euro-style restaurant called Bedford Café at 609 S. 20th Street (above), just one block south of P&K. The plan garnered early support via SOSNA, and this past May, the Zoning Board of Adjustment granted P&K's Dan Clark the variance required to raze the dilapidated two-story residential property, which he had under contract but did not own outright, and construct a new one-story commercial space from the ground up. Less than a month later, a group of neighbors opposing the plan filed in appellate court with the aim of overturning the ZBA's decision.
After a number of delays, oral arguments for the case were slated to begin on April 2, 2012. But that date was rendered irrelevant last week, when two members of the opposition quietly succeeded in buying 609 S. 20th Street for themselves.
Last Thursday, City Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown heartened herself to Philadelphia barflies, night owls and don't-wanna-go-homers by introducing The Extended Bar Hours for Education Bill, which proposes that last call at local drinkeries be pushed back one hour, from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m., for the budgetary benefit of our struggling School District. The 10 percent taxation of alcohol raised approximately $42 million for schools in the 2010 fiscal year; Brown, Council's newly elected Majority Whip, estimates this idea could generate $5 million more.
The bill is in its infancy — it would still have to earn approval within the State General Assembly for City Hall to gain the authority to tweak bar operating hours, which are lorded over by the PLCB. But like anything in Philly involving the word "liquor," it's already garnered strong reactions. (Mayor Nutter, for one, is not a fan of Brown's proposal, per The Inquirer.) We touched base with Councilwoman Brown late last week to get some background on her bill and her honest take on its chances in Harrisburg.
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