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Swift Half is adding weekend brunch tomorrow. It’ll start with a small menu but will include biscuits and gravy. Perfect for those days when the Standard Tap isn’t offering theirs. Also new at the Swift is a menu of $2 bar snacks. Look for fried pickles, homemade pretzels, deviled eggs and marinated olives.

P.Y.T. is adding daily lunch starting on Black Friday. The burger lounge is also starting a weekly burger and first up is a Thanksgivin’ Dinner Burger featuring a turkey burger topped with cranberry relish, stuffing and gravy. Also the always dangerous Victory Golden Monkey is $3 a pint during their half-priced 5-7pm happy hour. Be scared, be very scared.

Swift Half launches brunch this weekend [Meal Ticket]
Tommy Up [Facebook]

We love ourselves some Asian dumplings and tonight Kong is offering 10 varieties for 50 cents a piece.

Check out all the varieties after the jump.

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Trey Popp visits Paul, the Pine Street BYOB from sisters Effie Bouikidis-Schweich and Christina Jimenez. The restaurant is named for their late father, Paul Bouikidis. Popp finds that the cooking of chef Joshua Noh would make the daughters’ father proud.

There’s a lot to like about Noh’s cooking, in particular his willingness to impart some chili heat to dishes where you might not expect it. The biggest surprise was a perfectly cooked entrée of seared skate. The fish got a speckling of fennel seeds to go with the standard browned-butter-and-caper treatment, but the revelation was in the flanking potato hash. Noh touched it with just enough habanero “to open up the tastebuds,” as he told me later on the phone. It was like a master class in walking the line between assertion and nuance with capsaicin. Within a European-American menu, I can’t think of anyone who does it better.

And don’t forget there’s a three-course tasting for $20 on Tuesdays, $30 Wednesday through Sunday.

Father’s Day [City Paper]
Paul [Official Site]

Tonight it’s the Philadelphia Magazine Weekender Happy Hour at Square 1682. It kicks off at 5pm with $3 whiskey punch and free snacks from the kitchen. First 25 to show and mention the Weekender get free bubbly.

Tonight!: Weekender Happy Hour at Square 1682 [Philadelphia Magazine]

Here’s a new deal for the Recession Specials. Starting this Sunday Resurrection Ale House is offering a three-course dinner fro $25. The deal is available Sunday through Wednesday and there are some new menu options to choose from including grilled pork loin, vegan sloppy Joe and mussels Puttanesca.

In other deals, Sunday through Wednesday after 11pm all Belgian 12-ounce bottles are 25% off.

Monday through Friday from noon to 7pm all local beers are just $3.

Resurrection Ale House [Official Site]

We’re updating our popular Recession Specials feature. We’ve added wallet saving deals like Meme’s four-course, $38 prix fixe with $5 glasses of wine. If you’ve got some suggestions of your own, please add them to the comments. In a week we’ll compile the additions and roll them all into Recession Specials 2.0.

Note, the requirements are these deals include a food component, this is not a drinking guide (not that there’s anything wrong with that, we’re just trying to keep it focused).

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We’re updating our popular Recession Specials feature. We’ve added wallet saving deals like Sidecar’s Pork Me Sundays where all pork offerings are half off after 3pm.For the next couple days we’ll be rolling out each day’s specials. If you’ve got some suggestions of your own, please add them to the comments. In a week we’ll compile the additions and roll them all into Recession Specials 2.0.

Note, the requirements are these deals include a food component, this is not a drinking guide (not that there’s anything wrong with that, we’re just trying to keep it focused).

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We’re updating our popular Recession Specials feature. We’ve added wallet saving deals like 10Arts 3-course meal for $35. For the next few days we’ll be rolling out each day’s specials. If you’ve got some suggestions of your own, please add them to the comments. In a week we’ll compile the additions and roll them all into Recession Specials 2.0.

Note, the requirements are these deals include a food component, this is not a drinking guide (not that there’s anything wrong with that, we’re just trying to keep it focused).

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We’re updating our popular Recession Specials feature. We’ve added wallet saving deals like Modo Mio’s “turista” menu that’s always a heck of a deal but especially on a Friday night. For the next several days we’ll be rolling out each day’s specials. If you’ve got some suggestions of your own, please add them to the comments. In a week we’ll compile the additions and roll them all into Recession Specials 2.0.

Note, the requirements are these deals include a food component, this is not a drinking guide (not that there’s anything wrong with that, we’re just trying to keep it focused).

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We’re updating our popular Recession Specials feature. We’ve added wallet saving deals like Xochitl’s half-priced “staff meal.” For the next several days we’ll be rolling out each day’s specials. If you’ve got some suggestions of your own, please add them to the comments. In a week we’ll compile the additions and roll them all into Recession Specials 2.0.

Note, the requirements are these deals include a food component, this is not a drinking guide (not that there’s anything wrong with that, we’re just trying to keep it focused).

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