Archive for the 'Events' Category

Yesterday we mentioned favorite dishes that are no longer available, today we’re talking about forgotten regional favorites like pepper hash, snapper soup, fried catfish and waffles plus many others.

Next Saturday is the Festival of Forgotten Foods at the Reading Terminal Market. From 10am to 4pm you’ll be able to sample all these local classics at the center court in the Market.

Festival of Forgotten Foods [Reading Terminal Market]

More on the Royal Tavern’s 7th anniversary. On Wednesday, November 11th the week long fun begins with a night for vegans and vegetarians. All of the blackboard specials will be vegetarian or vegan items and there will be a specialty cocktails crafted from cruelty free ingredients. It all starts at 5pm and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to PAWS.

Royal Tavern [Official Site]

On Saturday, November 14th Johnny Brenda’s is hosting a Wet Hop Rodeo, a roundup of wet-hopped beers from around the area and around the country.

Beer is typically made with hops that are dried to preserve the ingredient and make it suitable to ship and store. But some oils and tastes are lost in the process. A wet-hopped beer is made with fresh, not dried hops and tends to be especially fragrant and hoppy.

Typically these wet-hopped beers have come from Northwestern brewers near hops fields. But as Eastern brewers and farmers have experimented with growing  their own hops, wet-hopped beers have made their way east.

Philadelphia Brewing Company’s Harvest from the Hood is truly from the neighborhood with hops harvested at Kensington’s Greensgrow Farm.

• Victory Harvest Pils
• Victory Harvest Ale
• Weyerbacher Harvest Ale
• Philadelphia Brewing Company Harvest from the Hood
• Manayunk Brewing Hop Harvest
• Port Brewing High Tide
• Sierra Nevada Harvest Ale
• Rogue Wet Hop Ale
• Iron Hill Wet Hopped Ale firkin

Wet Hop Rodeo: A Round-Up of Local and National Wet-Hopped Beer [Johnny Brenda's]

It’s a homebrew event at Meme with 10 home brewers bringing out their best beers to be judged. The event starts at 6:30 and is open to the public. It’s $25 and includes tasting of the beers, additional beer from Resurrection Ale House and bites prepared by Resurrection chef, Joey Chimko.

Tonight -= Homebrew event @ MEME open to the public 6:30 [Beer Lass]

We are of course very excited for our burger tour this evening but that’s not the only food related event that’s taking place during First Person Arts Festival.

The festival kicked off with Gourmet editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl appearing at a delicious dinner at Supper. Kitchenplay was there and has all the details.

Tomorrow, America Eats features food writer Pat Willard serves up stories of American food rituals past and present. And of course there will also be family style meal served at Jack’s Firehouse.

On Sunday, November 8th The Girl from Foreign rounds out the food events with author Sadia Shepard reading from her memoir about growing up in an ethnically diverse family. There will be a buffet by Ekta and a screening of the film, In Search of the Bene Israel.

First Person Festival [Official Site]

Phoodie.info has rolled out a new Events Calendar in handy-dandy Google Calendar format.

Of course Phoodie isn’t the only ones publishing food and drink events this way. We’ve got our own Google Calendar and here are some others that you might like.

• Earth Bread + Brewery
• Grey Lodge
• Philadelphia Brewing Co. Social Agenda
• Phoodie Events Calendar
• South Street District
• Standard Tap

Open any of the calendars and click the to add it to your Google calendar.

And although not in a Google Calendar format, the Philly Beer Week Calendar of upcoming events is worth checking out as well.

New And Improved: The Phoodie Events Calendar! [Phoodie.info]
Foobooz Calendar [f8b8z]

There are still some tickets remaining for tonight’s Foobooz Burger Cruise. Get your tickets now to check out burgers and beer at Barclay Prime, Good Dog, Noble: American Cookery and Pub & Kitchen.

Beer historian Dale Van Wieren is set to hit an impressive milestone on Saturday, November 21st at Sly Fox Brewery in Phoenixville. He will be trying and logging his 10,000th different beer.

Dale’s 10K, an “amber Pils/Dubbel/Bier de Garde hybrid of about 7.5% abv” in O’Reilly’s words, will be tapped at 5pm and Dale will then sip and make notes as his friends and an expected crowd of Sly Fox regulars and beer aficionados drawn to the historic occasion cheer him on before rushing to the bar to enjoy their own pints of 10K.

That’s pretty darn impressive.

Beer Historian Dale Van Wieren will create history at Sly Fox [via Jack Curtin's Liquid Diet]
Sly Fox Brewery [Official Site]

Friday afternoon we received a note that Monday evening Pub & Kitchen would be kicking off the Phillies game with a “shotgun rally” of 100 free cans of Sly Fox Pikeland Pils. We were a bit incredulous. Had a Blackberry been compromised? Was someone pulling our leg? Was Pub & Kitchen losing its mind?

But we checked in over the weekend and it is true. Owner, Ed Hackett wants 100 people on the sidewalk shotgunning cans of Pikeland Pils t 7 tonight. Maybe it’s just the thing the Phillies need to get back on track, it’s certainly worth the try.

In other Pub & Kitchen news, the Illadelph spotted the 20th and Lombard bar in last week’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode.

Pub & Kitchen [Official Site]

We don’t want to innundate you everytime a bakery offers a Phillies related cupcake so we’re putting all of our Phillies related specials on a single page.

There are deals, special dishes and unusual spots to watch the World Series listed and we’ll be updating them regularly.

Know of any must-hit deals or specials? Let us know at tips@foobooz.com or @foobooz on Twitter.

World Series Specials [f8b8z]