Bibou recognizes the turn of the calendar and updates their menu. This weather has the hot mushroom cream, cured venison soup calling to us.

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British celbri-chef Jamie Oliver has a magazine Jamie that has just done a big profile on dining in Philadelphia. And yes there are mentions of cheesesteaks but also brag worthy props given to Vetri, Zahav, Bibou and a host of other places. Plus this great quote:

It’s a blend of pride in the old and embrace of the new that seems, curiously, essentially Philadelphian.

Philadelphia (PDF) [Jamie Magazine]

The New York Times’ Sunday travel section makes like Craig LaBan and praises Bibou too! [New York Times]

The Los Angeles Times’s Daily Dish notices that Roots drummer Questlove is showing the love for P.Y.T. [Los Angeles Times]

Gourmet Magazine lists eight great pilsners around the world and both Victory Prima Pils and Sly Fox Pikeland Pils make the list. [Gourmet]

Craig LaBan visits Bibou where he finds chef Pierre Calmels and his wife Charlotte creating another star French bistro on 8th Street in South Philadelphia. Of special note was the “gastro-splurge” of the seven-course $70 tasting dinner.

Our meal soared from an ethereally light but vivid chilled asparagus soup to a velvety-tender slice of poached veal tongue with sauce gribiche (a decadent throwback mayo with capers, cornichons, minced hard-cooked egg, and tarragon.) There were wonderfully crisped scallops with lime emulsion, sea beans and shaved cucumber noodles, another bowl of Madeira-sauced chanterelles (which I gratefully devoured), seared foie gras, and an intensely beefy hanger steak in a light green peppercorn sauce alongside snappy plumes of black trumpet mushrooms that glistened with a butter shine.

Three Bells – Excellent

Bibou [Philadelphia Inquirer]
Bibou [Official Site]

Craig LaBan had off this past weekend but he’ll be back with a review we’re intrigued to read. He’ll be checking out Bibou, the French BYOB just off the Italian Market.

David Snyder has already declared it Philadelphia’s best French bistro. Adam Erace admitted he had to resort to nitpicking to find anything to complain about and Joy Manning of Philadelphia Magazine gave it a glowing A-.

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Bibou+Reviewed [f8b8z]
Bibou [Official Site]

Today the Bite looks at the offspring of Le Bec-Fin’s Georges Perrier and the new restaurants they are opening.

Beyond Le Bec-Fin [Metro Philadelphia]

While we greedily stuffed our faces with wonderful bites, Grub Street dutifully photographed all of the deliciousness on display at last night’s Taste of the Nation fundraiser.

Among our favorites were, Bibou’s Boudin Blanc sausage with apple puree, Fork’s corn flan with pork and corn salsa, Noble’s headcheese and spiced tuna and Blackfish’s decadent black cherry dipped in foie gras!

A Taste of Taste of the Nation [Grub Streeet]

Philadelphia Magazine’s Joy Manning handed out an A- for the food at Bibou, calling the fare “the country cousin to the citified cuisine of Le Bec. It’s more rustic, without fussy embellishments or unnecessary elements, but just as genuine, and made with the same skill, the same obsessive attention to detail.” [Philadelphia Magazine]

Wine guru David McDuff visits Bibou on a Sunday prix fixe night for the $45 per person meal and finds the “plats principaux are the stars.” [McDuff's Food & Wine Trail]

Drew Lazor runs down what he had at his Sunday prix fixe and in addition to still being full the next day, he found it “ridiculously tasty.” [Meal Ticket]

Bibou also made the Philadelphia Weekly 50-Must Eats with its seven-course tasting menu for $70. PW calls Bibou’s foie gras some of the best in Philly. [Philadelphia Weekly]

Bibou [Official Site]

This week in Philadelphia Magazine’s Restaurant Club Newsletter.

• Our Latest Review: Bibou
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• Restaurant Club Deals:
  Free appetizer at Morton’s. Free glass of wine at Georges.

Restaurant Club Newsletter [Philadelphia Magazine]

Collin Flatt has the best thing he’s eaten all year, fried pigs feet stuffed with foie gras at Bibou. [Phoodie]

Philadining sounds the awesomeness alert for the charbroiled short ribs at Vietnam Cafe. [Philadining]

Felicia D’Ambrosio encourages all of us to immediately eat at the Rib Stand in the Reading Terminal Market. [Meal Ticket]

Gooey Looie’s, the deli in the odd strip mall off of Moyamensing Avenue has ruined other hoagies for Phoodie. [Phoodie]

It’s a monster of a veggie roll at Hikari on Liberties Walk complete with sweet potato tempura and “obese slabs of avocado.” [Living on the Vedge]

We’re right there with The Secret is Salt, the Hope’s Cookies in the General Store at the RTM are the best. Yes please to the Heath Bar cookie. [The Secret is Salt]

It’s the portions at La Fonda Colombiana that make it worth the trek up to North Philadelphia. [Phoodie]