Archive for the 'Food' Category

It’s Karaoke Obscura at 12 Steps Down. It’s karaoke with good music and hopefully good singers. Check out the available song list over at Philebrity.

Karaoke Obscura [MySpace]

Noble American Cookery will bring another James Beard nominated chef to the city when it opens on the 2000 block of Sansom next month. [Feeding Frenzy, City Paper]

There’s musical real estate in West Philadelphia. Abbraccio has been sold to Vietnam Cafe’s owner, Benny Lai. Abbracio’s Roger Harman will remain through mid-February and then will conver 4800 Baltimore Ave into a BYOB and coffee shop called the Gold Standard. Vietnam Cafe will expan through to the former Italian restaurant. [The Insider]

Looks like Avram Hornik may have unloaded Bar Noir to a former Tir Na Nog bartender, Michael Welsh. [Ice Pack, City Paper]

“West South Street’s” Novita Bistro offering an affordable weekend brunch with prices topping out at $11.95. [Meal Ticket]

Walnut Street’s Joe Pesce has added a sandwich stand to the operation and by the sound of it, some bigtme sandwiches.

They start as 50- to 60-pound roasts from Port Richmond’s Kissin Fresh Meats, which Tucker’s guys cook for 12 hours in a bath of carrots, onions and seasonings. Without sparing the juice, they carve off about a half-pound and place it on a kaiser roll from Liscio’s Bakery. It’s perfect as is, or for the South Philly experience, add sharp provolone and broccoli rabe.

Tonight, pop in and sample Stoli based drinks at the bar.

Good Taste [Philadelphia Inquirer]
Joe Pesce [Official Site]

David Snyder learns it’s the ingredients that are the special ingredient at Ekta.

“Garam masala,” Bhattarai cited when asked about the ingredients in the dishes I ate. This spice blend is very common in Indian cuisine. But what is unique about Ekta’s, I learned after some gentle prodding, is that Bhattarai makes it from scratch by blending more than 10 different components, including coriander, black and green cardamom and star anise. “It’s hard,” Bhattarai told me, “but it brings real good flavor and good taste.”

The Magic Powder [City Paper]

Penn Appetit, the just too cute for words title of the University of Pennsylvania’s semesterly food magazine dropped Monday. If you haven’t been by a dining hall dorm or even Locust Walk in the last couple days you can check it out online.

Osteria, Capogiro and bánh mì from Viêt Hương Restaurant are all featured within.

For the Penn haters out there the Staff page is a treasure trove of loathing. Publicity Chair? Really?

Penn Appetit [Official Site]
Penn Appetit Blog [Official Site]

Philadelphia Weekly’s Dan Packel tells the story of our most local of oysters, the Cape May Salt and some of the spots you can find it:

• Ansill Food + Wine
• Bar Ferdinand
• Butcher & Singer
• Pub & Kitchen

Heroes on the Half Shell [Philadelphia Weekly]

WineO has finally opened, replacing the Ministry of Information in Northern Liberties. Meal Ticket has the menu and some photos too. [Meal Ticket]

Pub & Kitchen is adding Friday and Saturday lunch to their repertoire. We’re eying the smoked salmon platter with the Metropolitan Bakery’s fennel pretzel. Also P&K is making their Friday firkin a weekly thing. Tapping is at 4pm.  [The Insider]

The Institute’s upstairs lounge isn’t finished yet but when it is, expect highbacked booths, dancefloor, DJ booth and Nintendo Wii. [Phoodie.info]

Avram Hornik’s Jumbo Theatre project at Front and Girard is dead. [Philebrity]

Living On The Vedge alerts us that the recently opened Mi Lah Vegetarian on 16th now is offering a Sunday brunch. LotV is especially excited by the Kenzinger beer battered seitan and waffles.

Get Your Brunch On [Living On The Vedge]

You may have noticed there’s an economic slowdown/recession/Great Depression 2.0 going on outside the window. Restaurants have noticed too and are beginning to take action.

Meal Ticket tips us off to how Swallow has revamped their menu from the bistro fare to a menu of various macaroni and cheese combinations, topping out at $12.

Check out the full menu after the jump and then consider our poll question.

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Tonight the University of Pennsylvania takes on Penn State at the Palestra in the Name Recognition Classic. An event that forces America to recognize that the two schools are not the same. Warm your innards before or after the game at Sláinte where they’ve updated their menu with some hearty tastes of the season, including chicken pot pie and baked macaroni and cheese.

Sláinte’s kitchen is available daily till 1 am.

Sláinte [Official Site]