Lolita BBQ Monday is back for the summer. Each Monday through the summer the Midtown Village Mexican BYOB will be offering a different barbecue menu. The price is $35 per person and don’t forget your tequila, the fresh pureed watermelon-mint mix is back on the menu.

This Monday the theme is “Pig Out.” Check out the menu after the jump.

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Valeri Safran and Marcie Turney, owners of Lolita, Bindi, Grocery and Open House open Verde today. A new flower and artisanal chocolate shop on 13th Street. Look for truffles, caramels and toffees oh my!

The Center City District’s mid-May email arrived today with a swell coupon. No, we’re not talking about the free lip balm from Kiehl’s, although maybe we just did. What we’re trying to focus on is the Bindi coupon for a free pitcher of Indian-inspired mixer. Bring your own vodka, rum or tequila and mix it all together.

The current mixes mentioned on the web site are:

• nimbu-pani - Indian style pomegranate-ginger lemonade
• mango sharbat – mango puree, lime, green cardamom

Each is a $12 value.

Bindi Coupon [Center City District]
Bindi [Official Site]

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Audrey Taichman is looking to open a second branch of her Audrey Claire at the corner of 13th and Sansom. Next door Marcie Turney and Valeri Safran are looking to expand their 13th Street empire with Verde, a flower and chocolate shop where Robins Books used to be. Also in the works is another restaurant next door at 110 S 13th Street. This spot will be Mediterranean and will feature a wood burning stove as well as the couple’s first liquor license.

What makes this all the more fun is that Turney used to work for Taichman at the original Audrey Claire.

Inqlings: This summer, it’ll be geckos galore [Philadelphia Inquirer]
More food in Wash West [The Insider]

UPDATE: The Audrey Claire deal is off.

Tonight, Time is offering what appears to be a heck of a deal on a whiskey dinner. It’s $65 per person and includes 6 courses that include seared foie gras, halibut, squab with black beluga and more.

Complete menu after the jump.

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Today marks the beginning of Midtown Village’s Holiday Week. From today through Sunday, the  Midtown Village shops, restaurants and bars will be offering discounts.

Check some of the food and drink related coupons after the jump.

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Apothecary Bar & Lounge (excuse us Board of Phamacy,  APO) makes USA Today’s 10 Great list of modern speakeasies. The list is compiled by Derek Brown, who has the coolest job title we’ve come across in a long time, ambassador to the Museum of the American Cocktail.

10 great places to slip into a modern speakeasy [USA Today]
Apothecary Bar & Lounge [Official Site] 

Well, Stephen Starr, you certainly are keeping our rumor-mongering restaurant yenta crew busy these days. First with the takeover of the Broad Street Diner and its potential Greek-ness and now we hear that you may have purchased the Letto Deli in the Midtown Gayborhood.

Readers may be familiar with the spot at 208 S. 13th Street between Walnut and Locust Streets – it’s basically half a block from Woody’s and about two blocks from another SRO spot, El Vez.

So what do you think Starr should do with the place, assuming this is true? Will he revive the gastropub idea he killed on Chestnut? A third Continental? The first official Starr Gay Bar? What does 13th Street not have that it needs?

Please do tell us your thoughts.

Drew Lazor might be on vacation but he still manages to snag the new menus for Time and give us the rundown on the new chef, Josh McCullough who has experience at Le Bec-Fin, Gayle and Blackfish.

New chef and menu for Time [The Clog]

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]