Rouge is offering a six-course tasting menu Tuesday through Saturday for $55 per person, $85 with wine pairings.

Among the highlights are seared scallops, King Salmon and braised beef brisket.

Click the menu below for full details and wine pairings.

Rouge [Official Site]

Rouge is kicking off a live jazz series tonight. Every Tuesday through August 25th, vocalist Barbara Montgomery will perform two one-hour sets; 6:30 to 7:30 and 8 until 9 with her band.

Le Bec-Fin, Rouge and Lacroix are each paired with a word you don’t usually consider with the high-end Center City eateries, bargains.

Big names, tiny checks [Metro Philadelphia]

Marc Vetri has a deal on the table for a new trattoria that would go in the Kimpton Hotel coming to 17th and Arch but “talks have been dragging.” [Inqlings, Philadelphia Inquirer]

R. Evan Turney will be rolling out the beginning of VargaBar’s menu at Azul Cantina for Restaurant Week. All the main courses offered that week will be Turney’s creations. [The Insider]

The Headhouse Square Kildare’s wasn’t the only property recently shed by Dave Magrogan. The former Grady David’s in Honey Brook is now Bistro on 10. The business was purchased by Lewis Frame Jr. who owns the Waynesbrook Inn where Grady David’s was located. [Pottstown Mercury]

Kite & Key gets a chef with Georges Perrier experience. Justin Hoke comes after time at Table 31 and Le Bec-Fin. He’ll keep the menu “simple and fun.” [The Insider]

Weird synergies between Ridge and Passyunk Avenues. First there was the Adobe Cafe and in February S & H Kebab House will take over the former Overtures. The S in S & H is Sal Kucuk who owns the Borough’s New Ridge Diner. [Meal Ticket]

The Rouge burger is no stranger to fame or fortune, on February 19th the burger will among the contenders at the Amstel Light Burger Bash, hosted by Rachel Ray, at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival.

Alison at Blue Bell will be reopening in the first week of February. The menu will reflect Chef Anthony Bonett’s Italian heritage and on Mediterranean fare. Amonght the highlights, Spanish octopus, pork chop Milanese, shellfish risotto, rock shrimp with potato and goat cheese ravioli  and the return of brussel sprouts!

It’s like 9th and Passyunk getting another steak place. Montgomery Ave in Narberth is getting another deli. Mel Glickstein who has run Mel’s Italian in Bala is looking to open Benny’s come April. [Inqlings, Philadelphia Inquirer]

From neighborhood watering holes to the realm of the beautiful people. Tis the season to dine outside and The Bite has a plethora of suggestions.

Why Dine Inside [Metro Philadelphia]

Rouge has a new late night menu served from 11 PM to 1 AM giving you a decidedly different option to Little Pete’s. Of course the Rouge Burger will be on the menu and additions like Turkey Empanadas with house-made mole, goat cheese and cilantro red onion salad and Tuna Wontons with soy chili sauce, red pepper and scallion.

Local food blog gas•tron•o•my has gone crazy this past week posting reviews to six spots and if there’s a common theme, it’s dastardly deliciousness.

Here’s a run down:

• DiNic’s
• Creperie Beau Monde
• Famous 4th Street Delicatessen
• Pat’s King of Steaks vs. Geno’s Steaks
• Bonte
• Rouge

Neil Stein is out of jail and has some big ideas. But first he had Peking Duck in Chinatown.

Stein, 65, said that he wanted to create a high-end, boutique hotel called Wow with computers and flat-screen televisions in every room, with a bistro, rooftop club, limo service, Philadelphia’s best spa, and – in place of a check-in desk – a concierge service to escort guests to their rooms.

Or he’d try franchising Rouge, the bistro he created on Rittenhouse Square, perhaps opening versions in Miami Beach or the Georgetown section of Washington.

Out of the Big House, bearing some big ideas [Philadelphia Inquirer]

Brian Freedman of aroundphilly.com takes his quest for sub-100 dollar meals to Rouge and gets the meal in for under a C-note and finds a tasty burger.

Granted, Rouge is no longer the culinary groundbreaker it once was. But it has, rather, fallen into a state of comfortable consistency, and for that, we should all be grateful.

Hundred Dollar Baby [aroundphilly.com]
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