Today saw the opening of Hawthornes at the corner of 11^th and Fitzwater. Chris Fetfatzes and Heather Annechiarico are behind the eatery, bruncherie and bottle shop. The Fetfatzes family also own Bella Vista Beer Distributors across the street.

The Space

• The corner space has been completely redone from its warehouse past.
  • Hardwood floors
  • Wood fireplace
  • Living room feel
  • Takeout and prepared foods counter
  • Chalkboard menu
  • Hours
    • 11am to 11pm Monday through Thursday
    • 8am to midnight Friday, Saturday
    • 8am to 4pm Sundays

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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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Philadelphia Magazine has posted its entire Ultimate Philly Brunch Guide online.

• For Something Special
• Looking to Booze
• With a Group
• With the Kids
• Local, Seasonal, and Light
• For the Scene
• With a Theme
• Stuff Your Face
• Peace and Quiet

The Ultimate Philly Brunch Guide [Philadelphia Magazine]

Friday

Fish has added a late night lounge menu to its offerings. It’s available every night till 1am. Late night lobster grilled cheese. That could happen.

Saturday

Rain or shine the Bloktoberfest is a go, so stop over for a beer and some of the city’s best food trucks.

In New Jersey Flying Fish is welcoming Iron Hill to the state with a Brewers Reserve event featuring beers from the two brewers at the Iron Shade in Maple Shade. Starts at 1pm.

In the evening there are a few tickets remaining to Spinal Tapas’ Must Eats: The Event at Philly KitchenShare. Order them up right here.

Sunday

Resurrection Ale House is kicking of its brunch this weekend. Brunch is served on both Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 3pm. Stop in early to try a taste of Schneider Weise pouring from a wooden cask.

Resurrection Ale House has been open a few weeks now, long enough for blogging types to check it out.

Living on the Vedge deals with a crazy in order to try the roasted radicchio and gorgonzola biscotti. [Living on the Vedge]

It’s the pancetta with crab, peas and house-made fettucini that catches the fancy of the Beer/Pork Lass. On the beer side she tries the Schlenkerla Helles, a smoked golden lager from Bamburg Germany. [Beer Lass]

Veggicurious picks the pickle plate and roasted miatake mushroom to take for a spin. [Veggicurious]

In Other Resurrection Ale House News

Every Monday Resurrection is hosting a Mom + Me Happy Hour from 1 to 3pm. That’s a buck off beers when you bring your baby plus a little networking, socializing and friend-making.

Brunch will begin next weekend, the 24th and 25th of October. To celebrate the kickoff, there will be a special wooden cask of Schneider Weisse pouring off the edge of the bar.

Resurrection Ale House [Official Site]

This week in Philadelphia Magazine’s Restaurant Club Newsletter.

• The Ultimate Philly Brunch Guide
  Get a tasty sampling of Philly Mag’s 55 favorite places to spend a weekend morn
• Special Delivery on the Main Line
  new online service brings 20 Main Line restaurants straight to your door
• Where We’re Eating: Rat’s
  Stephen Starr’s catering division has taken over this Best-of-Philly winning Jersey restaurant
• This Week’s Featured Restaurant
  Order Le Virtu’s Best of Philly 2009 appetizer Olive All’Ascolana and receive 25% off any signature cocktail or Meletti brand digestivo.

Restaurant Club Newsletter [Philadelphia Magazine]

Noble: An American Cookery is adding brunch starting this Sunday and will add weekday lunch starting Monday, October 5th.

Brunch will be served from 11am to 3pm and will include:

• Fresh Cheese Crepes with grapefruit and thyme
• Scrapple Breakfast of two eggs, hash browns, apple butter and mustard muffin
• Banana and Bacon French Toast with peanut butter sabayon.

Brunch items range in price from $6 to $15, with sides such as Honey and Black Pepper Bacon, Two Eggs Any Style and Sweet Onion Grits available for $2 to $5.

Check out the lunch highlights after the jump.

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Whiskey doughnuts and the Phillies? That’s what Johnny Brenda’s is enticing us with this Sunday.

JBs Downstairs Bar Presents – PHILLIES BRUNCH: Phillies vs. Marlins

GAMETIME IS AT 1:35pm. We’re gonna set up that big TV we had up for last years playoffs / championship games. That way you can drink Bloody Marys and eat brunch while nursing your hangover without having to clean up dishes or anything!

Sunday 8/9 – JBs Downstairs Bar Presents – PHILLIES BRUNCH: Phillies vs. Marlins [Johnny Brenda's]

Adam Erace takes in chef Peter Miller’s brunch at the P.O.P.E. and has plenty of praise.

They should be talking about his vegan French toast, a breakfast neither as epic as Sabrina’s pyramids nor as neat as Café Estelle’s stuffed pillows, but nonetheless distinctive enough to garner a special place in the pantheon of Philadelphia French toasts. Pureed raw almonds and coconut milk replace the standard custard batter, but the bread fried up just as crisp and golden, while the spicing of cinnamon, vanilla and nutmeg tied the flavors back to the classic. My mom-who considers vegetarianism a misguided notion she can rid the world of one chicken- cutlet convert at a time-loved it.


Papal Infallibility [Philadelphia Weekly]
Pub on Passyunk East [Official Site]

Esquire named Kanella one of the best breakfast spots in America back in February. Last weekend Kanella actually added brunch to their hours. Living on the Vedge was there on the hummus paved road to satisfaction. [Living on the Vedge]

Finding Philly comes up with a list of South Philadelphia brunch spots to try when the wait at Sabrina’s and Sam’s Morning Glory are just too long.

1. Royal Tavern and Cochon
2. Carmen’s Country Kitchen
3. Los Taquitos de Puebla
4. Teri’s

[Finding Philly]

Fries with that Shake reminds us that it has been way too long since we had the whiskey donuts and the grits at Johnny Brenda’s. [fwts.net]