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Posted on Monday, June 22nd, 2009
The inventive sushi served at Umai Umai makes the Fairmount spot a worthy destination for Craig LaBan and you but the cooked food dissapoints.
But the 38-seat Umai Umai is really all about the magic that McCoy methodically spins behind his sushi bar. His creations aren’t all entirely successful. But he displays such individuality in a [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Craig LaBan decides to pay Fairmount’s Umai Umai a visit almost three years after it opened. What does that mean? Does LaBaninator come to bury or praise?
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Posted on Thursday, December 27th, 2007
We’ll be looking back at the year in Foobooz. Today we take a look back at February 2007.
Dish of February
The Focaccina pizza at Osteria
Stuffed with robiola cheese, and covered with the same crunchy paper thin crust that serves as its base, the pizza is then drizzled with truffle oil. The first bite has you [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
Over the next couple of weeks we’ll be looking back at the year in Foobooz. Today we take a look back at January 2007.
Dish of January
Smoked Rabbit Nachos at Rae
“deep-fried homemade tortillas are stuffed with impossibly moist, cured, smoked, and braised rabbit meat, spruced up with jalapeno, sharp cheddar, and cilantro, and served alongside [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
if you’re looking to try out Fairmount’s neighborhood sushi spot you’ll do well to remember the refrain, keep it raw.
The entrees are underwhelming, especially when compared with the sushi. Best is a yellowtail cheek, the moist flesh under a teriyaki glaze a bit difficult to pick out from the cartilage, but ultimately rewarding. The mound [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
The Daily News heads to the newish Umai Umai and takes in the cooking of chef-owner Alexander McCoy who helped open Morimoto and who’s tuna bruschetta received a 2005 James Beard Recognition Award. The experience fit like a good pair of jeans.
What I love about McCoy’s entree menu is the variety. You won’t get bored [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
Kildare’s is hosting a three course Victory Beer dinner tonight in Manayunk.
Not much else seems to be going on tonight, so why not try a new restaurant, how about Umai Umai, the contemporary Asian BYOB at 533 N 22nd Street.
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Posted on Thursday, September 28th, 2006
Cafe Sud at Passyunk and Catharine will be calling it quits this Sunday (Inqlings).
If you have the Fine Living Channel tune in this Saturday at 9 PM for Opening Soon, which chronicles the opening of Water Works Restaurant (Inqlings).
Copper Bistro has opened on 2nd Street in NoLibs. Entrees priced from $15.50 (quinoa risotto) to $23.50 [...]
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Posted on Thursday, August 17th, 2006
Three new Japanese restaurants have opened or are about to open in the area.
Umai at 22nd and Brandywine, near the Art Museum is just about set to open. The chef, Alexander McCoy comes from Teikoku in Newtown Square where he amounted quite the reputation. In 2004 McCoy and Teikoku won a Philly Cooks award for [...]
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