Talula’s Table cannot stop getting press. This time it’s a spread in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. [New York Times via McDuff's Food & Wine Trail]

Forbes Traveler has a slideshow of deluxe nose to tail meals and features Ansill among the offal best. [Forbes Traveler]

The Wall Street Journal goes interactive on us with its look at the power tables at Lacroix. [Wall Street Journal via Phoodie.info]

…well, sort of. The nation’s most difficult-to-get-into gourmet market will be making an appearance at the Sunday Headhouse Farmers’ Market. More details to come, but consider this your best shot at getting a meal at this joint.

Talula’s Table [Official Site]
Headhouse Market [FoodTrust]

Oh dear. Talula’s single table and its accompanying sturm und drang are profiled in Portfolio magazine. John Turturro has eaten there, but unless you can make plans two years in advance, you will not.
Food writers are fat, unhealthy and often in denial.

Looking for something new? Try some “camelbert” cheese, made from camels’ milk!

If anyone’s trying to buy us a present, look here.

One day we may actually make it out to Talula’s Table in Kennett Square but until such time we will read stories like Sloth Street’s and salivate.

The meal kept churning along, with a solid salt-cod fritter that I don’t really remember that well, and an interesting take on Beef Wellington that substituted rabbit for steak. The meal may have hit its peak, though, on the fourth course, a chorizo stuffed quail. With an aromatic broth that tempted us all when they first put down the plates, the dish featured a (thankfully) de-boned quail with a spicy sausage unearthed after a few bites. It was creative and delicious, and actually overshadowed the next course, which would have been a tremendous hit any other time. It was a smoked short rib and beef tenderloin dish where the smoke was pronounced and delicious. But I’ll be damned if I wasn’t still thinking of that quail.

Talula’s Table [Sloth Street]

Talula’s Table, the single table dining experience of Bryan Sikora and Aimee Olexy has opened up reservations for the second half of 2008.

If you feel lucky here’s the number. 610 444 8255. If you want to know what the hoopla is about here is a recent write-up on McDuff’s Food & Wine Trail.

Late Fall Tasting Menu at Talula’s Table [McDuff's Food & Wine Trail]
Just how hungry are you? [Philadelphia Inquirer]
Talula’s Table [Official Site]

Philadelphia Magazine reviews Talula’s Table and find it’s a destination worth heading to.

It’s at these private dinners that the skills and obsessions of owners Aimee Olexy and Bryan Sikora find their ultimate expression. Through a combination of sourcing and sorcery, fresh ingredients obtained, even foraged, from the surrounding area are transformed into elegant dishes that remind us what all the excitement over Django was about. Olexy and Sikora sold that acclaimed Philadelphia BYOB in 2005, and this more personal style seems to suit them even better than a conventional restaurant. It’s a heightened dining experience: Eating with a group of friends at a communal table, interacting with the chef and servers on a more intimate level than is possible in a busy restaurant, and sharing wines from fellow diners’ cellars all amplify the deeper social aspects of eating.

Food: A
Service: B
Atmosphere: B

Review: A Seat at the Table [Philadelphia Magazine]

McDuff’s Food & Wine Trail visits Talula’s Table in Kennett Square and does a write-up on the harvest dinner complete with photos. After Craig LaBan’s recent review, reservations are for as far out as Spring ‘08 so this might be as close as you can get for awhile.

Backstage at Talula’s Table [McDuff's Food & Wine Trail]
Backstage at Talula’s Table [McDuff's Food & Wine Trail]
Talula’s Table [Official Site]

Craig LaBan doesn’t give out any bells to Talula’s Table but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t one of his favorite meals of the year. Instead of giving a formal review of the Kennett Square market LaBan walks us through his meal and how the former owners of Django wound up in Chester County.

Word of Talula’s farmhouse-table tasting dinners, served to just one group of 8 to 12 a night, four or five nights a week, has wafted far across the foodie grapevine like a very warm and tempting breeze. Kennett Square is a long hour’s drive from Center City at the height of evening traffic. Could it possibly be worth the anticipation of a reservation made nearly two months in advance?

Olexy and her staff immediately began pouring from the bottles of chilled Sancerre brought by one of my guests. (All the wines are BYO.) And as I nibbled hungrily on warm puff pastry breadsticks perfumed with butter and a whiff of anchovy, I took an eager glance at the artfully printed menus laid at our place settings.

One of the best meals I’ve eaten all year was about to unfold.

From Django to Kennett Square [Philadelphia Inquirer]
Talula’s Table [Official Site]

David McDuff lucks into the first seating at the chef’s table at Talula’s Table, the market in Kennett Square by Aimee Olexy and Bryan Sikora, the original owners of Django. After 8-courses it all boils down to a single word, “wow!”

At $85 per person (plus tax and tip) for a meal like this, you’d be hard pressed not to consider it a culinary steal. If anything, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the offering evolve over time into a slightly smaller number of courses. I can seriously eat but many of my dining companions began to struggle with finishing their courses at about round five or six. The atmosphere at Talula’s is wonderfully pacific, like a cross between an elegant country inn and the comfort of your own dining room.

Dining at a Virgin Table [McDuff's Food & Wine Trail]
Talula’s Table [Official Site]

Foodaphilia takes in brunch at A Full Plate Cafe twice in a weekend. Enjoying the lemonade, breakfast burrito and Omelet of the Day. [Foodaphilia]

Foodzings experiences Venezuelan cuisine at Sazon at 9th and Spring Garden. Slow roasted beef, Venezuelan cheesesteaks and more. [Foodzings]

Foodzings also visits the Reading Terminal Market for lunch, hits up Tragos for $8 pitchers, and finally a great BYOB dinner at Audrey Claire. [Foodzings]

Ouch, gas•tron•o•my doesn’t have much good to say about Twenty Manning, “P.F. Chang’s > Twenty Manning.” [gas•tron•o•my]

Gas•tron•o•my checks out Sunday brunch at Bridget Foy’s and finds a “tasty South Philly brunch, without the laborious South Philly wait.” [gas•tron•o•my]

Mac & Cheese rates Talula’s Table’s macaroni and cheese a tie with Morning Glory. [Mac & Cheese]

PhillyFoodGuys verifies that the Good Dog cheeseburger is indeed “fantastic.” [PhillyFoodGuys]