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Quick Bites

Posted by Foobooz on 31st July 2008

City Paper has a new food critic, David Snyder of PhilaFoodie. Congrats David! [City Paper]

There are 900 seats coming to high-end Center City steakhouses by the end of the year. The Inquirer tells you where. [Table Talk, Philadelphia Inquirer]

Drew Lazor goes all Girard Ave corridor this week with more details on Otolith, Q-Ba Bar & Restaurant and some expansion of selection at Almanac Market. [Feeding Frenzy, City Paper]

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Tip Log: The Legality of Auto-Gratuity

Posted by Kirsten Henri on 31st January 2008

Yesterday, we discussed the slippery nature of the auto-gratuity. Today, we find out if it’s even legal!

What happens when you’ve received crappy service and an automatic gratuity is applied to your bill? Are you within your rights to refuse to pay the gratuity or to pay a lesser percent? Or are you legally bound to pony up? The answer, in all of its litigious glory, after the jump…

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Is It the Mole-Gas, Or Is It Us?

Posted by Foobooz on 25th January 2008

As people who love to eat pretty much anything, the Foobooz team read David “Philafoodie” Snyder’s article “Foam Over Function: why don’t we ‘get’ molecular gastronomy?” in the City Paper with great interest. We heart Philafoodie, but we were both a little perplexed–irked, even–by the comments made by the people interviewed in the article. Our takes after the jump, both with Whiz:

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