Okay, here's a blast from the past: Does anybody have anything to say about the former King Henry restaurant? Or was it King Henry VIII? On Geary Street, in the Tendernob? Maybe it's where the Ambassador is now? This...
We tried to hold off on posting the Omnivore's Hundred meme that has exploded this week, but it's the Friday of a long weekend and our resolve to steer clear of memes just broke down. So what's this infamous...
We generally have a love-hate relationship with internet memes. But this one falls strictly on the "love" side: From the terrific British foodblog Very Good Taste, (via Serious Eats) we proudly proffer our take on The Omnivore's Hundred, a list...
Close to the end of the day yesterday we threw up a two-sentence excerpt from a polemic against locavorism that ran in the New York Times' Freakonomics blog. It was written by James McWilliams, a historian at Texas State, and...
There have been two late summer openings that seem to have stirred up quiet excitement and anticipation as their openings loomed closer. The first? Root. The other? Bistrot La Minette. Neither have been flashy, big name openings like say,...
From Rubicon to 12 Galaxies to the taco truck at 19th and Harrison , it seems that San Francisco bars and restaurants are closing left and right. With that in mind, we wonder if years from now people will...
One of our very favorite cafés, Velo Rouge, is undergoing a few changes now that Megan Lynch is no longer the owner. The good news is we haven't come across any dealbreakers—it’s still super bicycle friendly, they still serve...
Remember how we said we'd felt some creative sparks from that statement that the average American eats $500 worth of fast food a year? Well, now we've done our homework. Per our unofficial field work, a McDonald's chicken nugget...
What we would do with $500: lots of things. What we would not do: drop it all on fast food. But apparently, if we are an "average American," we do. Chicago-based Research International USA posed an online survey to 1,000...
Given a sufficient amount of time, any gathering of enlightened carnivores will inevitably devolve into an argument about where the best burger can be eaten. Some smug jerk will always, always say "my backyard," punctuated with one of those eyebrow-smirks,...
Did food blog Philadining stumble upon the best bar snack in the city? On a recent trip to Port Richmond's new Memphis Taproom, they stumbled upon the bar's pasties (pictured): "An absolutely perfect bar snack: a light, flaky pastry filled...
To noones surprise, dangerous bacteria has shown up in Delaware Bay shellfish. The Associated Press reports that strains of shewanella and potentially dangerous photobacterium have been found in Delaware Bay oysters. Basically... here's the scoop. Shewanella and the photobacterium species...
Flying can be challenging for so many reasons—missed connections, turbulence, lost luggage, overnight airline bankruptcy—so we can’t help but be annoyed to have to add food allergens to the already seemingly exhaustive list. We have a food allergy. One...
Thanks to Mac & Cheese, we learned that a firm called Sarah's Savories makes a vegetarian scrapple. It's called, yes, Vrapple: Vrapple is a delicious non-meat breakfast treat that the vegan and carnivore can both agree on! It makes...
In case you haven't heard, chef Michael Solomonov's new high-end Israeli restaurant Zahav is opening on Monday. Of course, we'll have the menu shortly. But what about Philly's other Israeli restaurants? A few years ago, Philadelphia was a dry...
Tastykakes. The Philadelphia Eagles. Both are Delaware Valley icons. But now, for the first time, the Iggles and Tastykake have signed a co-branding/marketing agreement. According to Tasty Baking Company CEO Charles Pizzi: "Our partnership with the Philadelphia Eagles extends the...
So now that we're officially in a recession, the Stephen Starr restaurant empire has been effected. Gael Greene reports that Starr's plans to bring in outside investors and buyers to his properties is on hold: The investment cash freeze may...