Percy Street Barbecue is open and is ready to serve you Texas style barbecue on South Street.

The Management Team

• Michael Solomonov
  • Acclaimed chef of Zahav
  • Partner with Steven Cook at Xochitl
  • Former executive chef at Marigold Kitchen

• Steven Cook
  • Partner in Zahav and Xochitl
  • Former executive chef at Marigold Kitchen
• Executive Chef and partner Erin O’Shea
  • Former executive chef at Marigold Kitchen
  • Brought modern southern cooking to Marigold

Read the rest of this entry »

Meal Ticket posts some photos of the upcoming Percy Street Barbecue. The shots don’t reveal much other than our Pavlovian response to sausage but it’s still worth a peek.

Psst: Quickie peek inside Percy Street Barbecue [Meal Ticket]

We updated our openings page yesterday but felt these three November openings needed to be highlighted:

• Percy Street Barbecue is targeting November 17th for their anticipated opening.
• Also on the 17th, the big new Vietnam Cafe in West Philadelphia where Abbraccio was is set to open. It’ll be BYOB for 30-days before opening their full bar on December 18th. The small space the Cafe occupies now will close after dinner on Sunday.
• And then on the 18th, Hawthornes in Bella Vista is targeting to open its doors to eager beer lovers.

Openings [f8b8z]

The Percy Street Barbecue team of Steve Cook, Erin O’Shea and Michael Solomonov headed to Texas to research barbecue and find the perfect brisket. Filmaker Chandler Kaufman went along and documented the trip. Check out the video on the Percy Street site.

Their favorite place? Smitty’s Barbecue. Lockhart, Texas.

Percy Street is still aiming for a November opening. Probably the third week.

Percy Street Barbecue [Official Site]

A.D. Amorosi sings a positive song for South Street despite the corridor’s recent loss of Ansill and Gayle. He says with the addition of Pizzeria Stella and the upcoming Percy Street Barbecue that South Street is looking at another Renaissance.

The story does hit on these interesting tidbits:

• Check out the big, bad fire engine red smokers that Percy Street is getting.
• Chef’s market rumors say the big space will be divided into a cafe and “tony” Asian restaurant.
• Joey’s Stonefire Pizza is rumored for the 500  block (Venuto’s?)
• A noodle house with liquor license is looking at 216-218 South Street (former  Club 218)

Rising Again [City Paper]

Grub Street gets some precious nuggets of information about Percy Street Barbecue, the South Street barbecue restaurant from Steven Cook and Michael Solomonov slated for an October opening. It’ll be very Texan with brisket as king. There will also be salvaged materials from an unlikely spot. [Grub Street]

Meal Ticket has the latest on Rubb, Matt Levin’s Manayunk BBQ spot aiming for a September opening. It’ll be a small 25-seat spot with four smokers, each using a different wood. The menu highlight will be the exclusive Elysian Fields lamb served with a North African pepper sauce. Also, Levin’s pig mascot needs a name. Can you beat the names already posted?  [Meal Ticket]

We guess we should have seen the writing on the wall. The Craigslist ad for a two-story West Philly BYOB. Steve Cook and Michael Solomonov doing a barbecue restaurant on South Street. A chef with a southern resume already on the payroll. But somehow it never dawned on us that Cook and Solomonov would be selling Marigold Kitchen and bringing chef Erin O’Shea to the South Street barbecue place, which we now know will be known as Percy Street Barbecue. But that’s what has happened.

Michael Klein has the details including what the new Marigold Kitchen will be like.

Marigold to be sold; chef to do BBQ on South St. [The Insider]