After 7pm, Sunday through Thursday Apothecary is offering “recession proof specials,” 7 new cocktails economically priced at $6 each.

What won’t lift the gloom like the “Gloom Lifter Upper?” Whiskey, brandywine, raspberries, lemon and froth.

Check out the entire list over at Meal Ticket.

A cocktail in every glass: New “Recession Proof” specials at Apothecary [Meal Ticket]
Apothecary [Official Site]

Foodzings visits Distrito for small plates feast and has lots of delicious looking pictures. [Foodzings]

Philadining had been having mixed experiences at Apothecary but now he thinks he has it figured out. [Philadining Blog]

It’s a football sized burrito that can get you through hard times at El Jarocho. [Living On The Vedge]

Foodzings also has us salivating for a crepe after her weekend photo-fest at Beau Monde. [Foodzings]

Almaz Cafe is a spot that we always forget when we’re wondering around looking for something to eat. Living on the Vedge reminds us, that we evidently NEED TO GO. [Living On The Vedge]

Apothecary now has a weekday happy hour to encourage you to try some of their cocktails and other fine drinks.

The release is just so Apothecary we’ll just quote it below.

In order to prove our point, every Tuesday through Friday of every week – until we decide the point’s been made – between the end-of-day hours of 5:00PM and 7:00PM, we will be offering our guests a selection of specially priced drinks.

On special: two classic cocktails, two wines and two beers; 7 dollars for a cocktail, 6 for a glass of wine and 4 for 96 fluid drams of beer!

Join us.
Cheers!

Apothecary Lounge [Official Site]

Trey Popp croons and shouts about the great time he has drinking high concept concoctions at Apothecary.

Cocktail agnostics will find plenty to please — and sometimes challenge — the palate right on the menu (which will change seasonally, natch). It’s hard to imagine a better summer drink than the Booty Collins, a refreshing blend of green-tea-infused gin, passionfruit, yohimbe, valerian root and seltzer with just enough tincture of cayenne to tickle the throat on the way down. What’s more, that and several others are sweetened with agave nectar, whose glycemic index is so much lower than standard sweeteners, [bartender Phil] Watts again correctly noted, that it is even considered safe for diabetics.

Club Med [City Paper]
Apothecary [Official Site]

If you’ve been to Apothecary you may have asked the question “where do those stairs go?” And if you’ve been in the presence of someone who has seen Ghostbusters one too many times, they probably said, “they go up.” But starting tonight, that opportunity to quote a Bill Murray comedy from the eighties ends as those stairs will officially open as will the roof deck at Apothecary.

Apothecary Lounge [Official Site]

The intriguing elixir lounge Apothecary is opening to the public tomorrow. The second floor and roof deck are still a week or two out but you can explore the drink menu on the first floor.

The menu also lists their odd but interesting house etiquette.

Full menu after the jump.

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Forgive us for sounding a little bit like Crazy Eddie here, but starting today, it’s pure restaurant opening madness! Madness we tell you! You can always check our regularly updated Openings feature, but we’ve highlighted the following few days of anticipated openings for you after the jump…

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Last night, we were treated to a very special preview of Apothecary Bar + Lounge, the new “cocktail restaurant” in the Midtown Gayborhood from restaurateur Bruno Pouget and Urban Space Development, a design-build firm (they’re responsible for Capogiro’s 20th & Sansom location, if you’re curious about their previous work). If all goes well with the strange and mysterious harpy known as L&I, it should be open some time next week. We’re usually reluctant to make statements of greatness before doors are open, but in this case, we’re going to make an exception. It’s going to be, as they say, The Shit.

Why? Artisan cocktails from snappy beverage consultants The Tippling Bros. Kold-Draft ice cubes that take longer to melt and are free of excess air impurities. Cocktails in bottles–not bottle service, but Cocktails. In. Bottles. A roof deck. A menu of libation-absorbing snacks meant for sharing from chef kitchen consultant Steven Cameron. We can honestly say that there’s nothing really like this going on in Philly right now. Before you all start reminding us about Southwark, which we love, we’d like you to know that this is just different. The gents of Southwark–and Katie Loeb over at Chick’s–need some company. Plus, a rising tide floats all seaworthy boats. And nothing floats our boat like a rising tide of delicious cocktails.

After the jump, a full breakdown…

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While we were drinking our faces off this weekend at various Beer Week events, Drew Lazor of the City Paper was burning the midnight oil. He has scoopage on new drinky lounge Apothecary, word on Bluezette’s replacement Prive and – lo! – news on the rebirth of Old City stalwart Sassafras.

Prices are going up and portions are going down in restaurants. Is it because chefs and restaurateurs just so damn generous?

The delightful Rick Nichols, in a pickle.

Drew Lazor and Michael Klein havedetails on Las Bugambilias which has been open about three weeks now on South Street. Klein even has a phonetic pronunciation (”boo-gam-BEE-lee-as”), we still can’t say it. [Feeding Frenzy, City Paper] [Table Talk, Philadelphia Inquirer]

Supper has set this Friday as their official opening night. [Icepack, City Paper]

13th Street between Chestnut and Walnut is certainly a happening stretch. And in the spring the street will add Apothecary Bar & Lounge by the original owner of Caribou Cafe. [Food & Drinq, Philly.com]

Look for G to open below Davio’s in late November. Until it opens stare at their under construction web site, thebestlounge.com. Seriously? [Icepack, City Paper]

Maybe the drama at Silk City will die down as Mark Bee has hired Matt Ball to be the chef. Ball has experience at Deuce in Northern Liberties and the Aspen in Fairmount. [Food & Drinq, Philly.com]

Looks like Dock Street Brewery & Restaurant is going to take over for Silk on the drama front. Saturday, Dock Street let go of its brewer, Julius Hummer, after less than two months on the job! Scott Morrison who opened Dock Street on 50th Street is back on an interim basis. [JackCurtin.com]