Johnny Brendas Philly Beer Week doesn’t kick off until next Friday’s “Opening Tap” ceremony at Independence Mall, but you can get a preview taste of what’s in store toni...
Filet, eggs and cactus tacos. Onetime Top Chef contender Jen Zavala, who we told you was holding things down at Fishtown’s Interstate Draft House while simultaneously cruising around with the C...
Morgans Pier Last night Avram Hornik and his team opened Morgan’s Pier for a preview party. The space, its design and the overall vibe is clearly the most civilized (read: non-douchey) venture ...
Ho Sings entrance Surely there’s a blizzard blanketing hell right now with snow and ice, because there’s word this morning that the long overdue Chinatown cocktail lair Hop Sing Laundroma...
Can Do! Percy Street Barbecue will show off its “can-do” attitude tonight for Brooklyn Brewery, welcoming the brewer to Philly for the local debut of its East India Pale Ale in aluminum c...
Gonzalez. Theres nothing funny about this: After a judge rejected an effort to withdraw the guilty pleas he made earlier this year, Remigio “Remy” Gonzalez, brother-in-law of Cake Boss st...
No ones saying that celebrating the snail is wrong. As stated before, we try to avoid contrived food holidays like they’re a salmonella-tainted slab of tempeh. But today’s designation as ...
Behold: Food in Jars in print. It’s hardly surprising that Marisa “She Can Pickle That” McClellan first learned the fine art of canning while growing up in Portlandia Portland, Oreg...
The scene at Chinatowns Night Market Looks like beer, wine and cocktails are going to give Night Market’s cupcake contingency a run for its money tonight when the roving street bazaar of food t...
Theodore Roosevelt used to dig Ralphs red gravy. There’s no doubt that the closing of San Francisco’s time-honored Fior D’Italia is a huge drag. It first opened its doors in 1886, a...
You have to eat them for it to work, though. Despite burger prices skyrocketing as cookout season approaches, there’s still some good news to report from the backyard barbecue beat: Watermelon ...
Center City: Get Ready! Surely it was only a matter of time before the partnership of Michael Solomonov, Steven Cook, Bob Logue and Thomas Henneman rolled out a second location of their wildly popula...
Iron Hills Chestnut Hill location. Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant has inked a deal to bring one of their brewpubs to Voorhees, N.J.’s Town Center. It will be the group’s tenth location, a...
Underbar has, like, an Asian nautical thing going on. Last summer brought word that Mike Naessens, who owns Old City’s Eulogy and Beneluxx, was working on turning Old City Asian Bistro into a b...
Elas "huge-ass" bar. Tonight Ela chef-owner Jason Cinchonski will debut Happy Hour His Way, a new (almost) nightly deal on drinks and a special, new menu of bar snacks to go with them. One pa...
Get it? "High" school. The words “high school” took on a whole new meaning for handful of Chester County students this week. The Pottstown (heh) Mercury reports that several kids ...
Sams Morning Glory Diner In sad news, Grub Street has learned of the passing of Samantha "Sam" Mickey, the chef and owner of one of the city’s most beloved institutions, Sam’s Mor...
Green Wasabis ramen. We were only half-kidding a few weeks back when we wondered aloud just how long it would take until we had reached a gastropub-like saturation point with ramen restaurants. Now w...
• In his three-bell review of their latest effort, the Spanish tapas bar Jamonera, Craig LaBan gushes over Marcie Turney and Valarie Safran’s “talent for melding rustic flavors with...
Han Chiang Word circulated throughout the city this past weekend that Han “the Man” Chiang had quietly opened the doors to the fifth outpost of his sizzling Sichuan empire. The website to...
"Dont blame us." If there’s one thing we’ve learned from Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan, it’s that there is certainly nothing pretty about meat processing. Images of crow...
Foremerly Octo Looks like Morgan’s Pier, Avram Hornik and the Union Transfer crew’s revival of the seasonal riverfront space that once housed short-lived Octo and before that Rock Lobster...
Dont forget that sipper. With events happening all around the city this weekend, it’s more than just geographical proximity that will be a factor in picking which festival to visit. It’s ...
Cézannes The Card Players; they look hungry. In case you hadn’t heard, the Barnes is built, stocked with more French impressionists than you can shake a stick at, and it’s ready to open. ...
See what sulfites can do to you? While the volume consumed often has more to do with a next-day hangover, sometimes it really is the wine’s fault. Sulfites that are added in for preservation pu...
A 14-year-old boy from Michigan found a finger in his Arby’s roast beef sandwich. According to Yahoo, a restaurant employee cut her finger off with a meat slicer. She left her station to deal w...
BYO (gluten-free) Bread South Philly Tap Room’s Scott Schroeder is pretty busy this week, what with the Wheat Beer Festival on Saturday. But just because this weekend’s event isn’t ...
Perfect for soaking up the beer. With just two weeks to go until Opening Tap, Philly Beer Week festivities are already popping up. The "With Love Beer Garden" at the Four Seasons Hotel will b...
• South Philly Reviews Phyllis Stein-Novak visited SoWe, the new gastropub that replaced Divan Turkish Kitchen at 22nd and Christian. Though she felt the roasted eggplant and yogurt dip looked ...
Veggie-licious The battle over school lunches is back in the headlines. And it’s not about whether serving soda with the Salisbury steaks and tater tots constitutes a “balanced meal.̶...
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