Just A Couple Weeks For Varga Bar
It was a sad day when Azul Cantina closed, but the trade-off is looking pretty good: we get to have Varga Bar, sometime the week of May 18. The comfort food menu was crafted by R. Evan Turney (fans...
It was a sad day when Azul Cantina closed, but the trade-off is looking pretty good: we get to have Varga Bar, sometime the week of May 18. The comfort food menu was crafted by R. Evan Turney (fans...
The truck has only been around for three weeks, but cred is building for Honest Tom's Taco Shop, with their breakfast tacos and fancy Stumptown coffee. Following a burst of press earlier this week, two vegetarian blogs are weighing...
In a Diner's Journal post from today, Frank Bruni notices trotters, small birds, and cheaper wine cropping up on menus across the country. The trotters might just be a natural extension of the ubiquity of pork, but Bruni thinks...
You have gone above and beyond in your quest to get the blogosphere to take notice of you, and you have more than succeeded. First you brought out the King. The Subservient Chicken. The "I Am Man" commercial. Then...
What does this have to do with food, you ask? Is this about anything more than being a complete effing dork about things on the internet, cultural zeitgeists, and most things that Google does? Friends, there is no denying...
The third Thursday of November was yesterday, which means that the Beaujolais Nouveau arrived, and oenophiles from all area codes were really pleased. Meanwhile, there is one very particular population that must be besides themselves with joy. To illustrate: Yes,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
