On Wednesday, November 11th Jose Garces is hosting a progressive dinner through his Philadelphia restaurants. Starting with the boarding of a trolley at 5pm in front of Amada guests will stop for small plates at Distrito, then to Tinto for more small plates with a cocktail from Village Whiskey, then off to Chifa and finally back to Amada for the finale.

The meal will cost $200 per person and will include beverage pairings. Space is limited and reservations are required.

Check out what will be served at each restaurant after the jump.

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Each day around mid-day we’ll be highlighting a Restaurant Week reservation for two we think looks good.

Today’s easy, there’s a table for two availab at 7:15 at Tinto.

Tinto Restaurant Week Menu [Center City District]
Reserve a table at Tinto [OpenTable]

During happy hour at Tinto, you can enjoy some of Jose Garces’ delectable pinxtos for free and enjoy half-priced sangria along with reduced-price beer. Happy hour is Monday through Friday, from 5 to 7pm.

Tinto [Official Site]

Kelly White checks out the new $25 prix fixe Sunday brunch at Tinto. [UWISHUNU]

A new vegetarian food blog, Veggicurious checks out the huevos Mexicanos at Dos Segunodos. And by the way why are so many of Philadelphia’s food blogs vegetarian? [Veggicurious]

See, this is what we mean. Living On The Vedge checks out Carman’s Country Kitchen and finds French toast worth paying attention to. [Living On The Vedge]

And in things that still don’t suck, Philebrity salutes The 700 Club. [Philebrity]

Phillyist’s Angela counts down her top 10 Philadelphia area meals of 2008. [Phillyist]

34th Street Magazine chats with Jose Garces asking some interesting questions about how he is different than Stephen Starr, what happened to the taco stand and how he would construct a meal with a dish from each of his Philadelphia restaurants.

Dawn of a New Empire [34th Street Magazine]

This week The Bite takes a look at the new Bar 210 being built inside Lacroix and considers other restaurant bars that are worth sidling up to.

The Bite: Hungry? Saddle up [Metro Philadelphia]

This week Jose Garces’ restaurants will be serving the dishes he made in his epic battle with Bobby Flay on Iron Chef America.

Below is the menu and after the jump is the schedule as to which restaurant will be serving what, when.

Schedule after the jump.
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Jose Garces battled Bobby Flay on Iron Chef America last night. Melon was the secret ingredient that had to be in each of the five dishes and the challenge was each dish had to have a frozen component.

We’ll give the details on who won after the jump in case you are looking to catch it later this week or like us your stinking DVR decided not to include audio in the recording. It’ll be rebroadcast on August 21st at 9pm.

Update: Jose Garces Iron Chef America menu unveiled.

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Today in the Metro the Bite spills the beans on a speakeasy coming to town and highlights some Mother’s Day brunch spots (Les Bons Temps, Memphis Taproom, Tinto) that may have been overlooked because they just started serving everyone’s favorite weekend meal.

The Bite: Mom-proof meals [Metro Philadelphia]

Tinto has added brunch to their repertoire and the menu looks promising. Among the highlights are Revuelto de Langosta, lobster & asparagus shirred eggs with oyster cava cream, Padre e Hijo, crispy duck confit, tinto hash, fried egg and catalán escarole and lemon ricotta pancakes.

Items range from $8 to $14 and there is also an Inaki brunch for $21 that includes coffee, juice, pastry basket, two eggs any style, tinto hash, choice of applewood smoked bacon or chorizo and grapefruit brûlée.

The drinks also intrigue as the Pamplona qualifies as a meal in the glass with celery vodka, spiced tomato, consommé and chorizo.

Tinto Brunch Menu (PDF)

Reserve a table at Tinto.