Wawa’s 38th and Spruce location, the one that hasn’t closed (we’re still bitter Wawa!) has added some serious technology to its fountain soda machine. You can now add flavor shots of cherry, chocolate, raspberry or vanilla to your favorite carbonated beverage.

Flavor Shots? More Like No Way-vor Shots! [Under the Button]

We love the Illadelph blog, especially when the mysterious blogger brings out the big bat against crappy development and planning.

Today the targets are the likely restaurants that will be part of Philly Live at the sports complex and Wawa for their abandonment of the city in favor of “sprawling unsustainable, oil-addicted suburbs.”

Don’t stop now, you’re on a roll!

Predicting The Spectacular Restaurants Philly Live Will Bring To South Philadelphia [The Illadelph]
Wawa’s Business Model: Shun And Abandon Healthy, Livable, Pedestrian-Oriented Neighborhoods; Embrace Sprawling, Unsustainable, Oil-Addicted Suburbs [The Illadelph]

Chefs like cheap eats too. Jose Garces dines at Taqueria Veracruzana. Noble’s Steven Cameron has taken a liking to Mama’s Vegetarian and Taco Loco. Pho at Pho & Café Viet Huong is Lacroix’s Jason Cichonski’s choice. But who admits to heading for Wawa’s “Junior” turkey hoagie.

Chefs bent on a bite: Refined palates need cheap eats, too, & here’s where they go [Philadelphia Daily News]

Early Feedback from the Piazza

Living on the Vedge tells us about a promising margherita pizza and a salad at Vino that will hopefully be “figged out” next time. [Living on the Vedge]

The Beer Lass was there for the Swift Half’s soft opening and tries out a whole slew of dishes. [Beer Lass]

Phoodie has the lowdown on the Swift one’s Green Tomato Bloody Mary. [Phoodie.info]

Elsewhere In New

It was practically a stampede on opening day at Sweet Ending. “Solid, but not knee-buckling” is the verdict from Living on the Vedge [Living on the Vedge]

We only provided crappy nightime iPhone pictures of Silk City’s beer garden. Luckily Silk City has published their own. [Silk City]

Living on the Vedge also makes it to Verde and Varga Bar to see how the Turney siblings are doing. [Living on the Vedge]

Why Twitter Doesn’t Suck

Honest Tom’s is serving up fish tacos at Clark Park tonight at 5. [Twitter]

Why Marketing Works

Wawa may have abandoned much of Center City but we love their Hoagiefest ads so much we’ll probably seek them out anyway. [Wawa]

Wawas are retreating from Center City and it looks like there are a couple of contenders to their throne. Old Nelson and 24/7 stores have wasted no time jumping in where Wawas were.

Old Nelson has most recently replaced the 20th and Chestnut Wawa location while you’ll now find 24/7 at the corner of 2nd and Christian.

So what do you think? Which replacement do you prefer.

Johnny Goodtimes is fed up with Wawa and he’s not going to take it. According to Goodtimes the 20th and Chestnut Wawa is closing at the end of the month and other Center City locations will shut when their leases are up. A commenter says the 17th and Arch location will be closing in May.

Goodtimes is done with Wawa and urges others to give up their Wawa habit as well. Disturbing news indeed.

Screw Wawa [Johnny Goodtimes]
Wawa [Official Site]

Once again, Drew Lazor of the Citypaper has been working while we’ve been drinking… he has updates on Time, Earth Bread & Brewery and, most important for lamenters of the recently deceased Wawa at 20th & Locust, the scoop on what is going on at the former Kitchen USA at 20th & Spruce Streets, which will now be known as Food & Friends Neighborhood Market:

The space will have a high-end feel — gourmet sandwiches and groceries, artisanal cheeses, organic produce, La Colombe coffee and more. The best news of all? One half of the market will be dedicated to takeaway beer — local, national and international choices…

As former customers of KUSA, we applaud this change.

Post-Easter Philly food news for y’all [The Clog]

 

 

 

Check out Alli Katz of Philadelphia Weekly’s video of the (candlelight? hoagie?) vigil from last night’s closing of the Dorkchester Wawa.

All we can say is… WaWow!

Wawa [Official Site]
Philadelphia Weekly [Official Site]

Jerome Nottingham IV has some more on the closing of the Rittenhouse Square Wawa, the fifth Center City Wawa to close since 2000.

Wawa closed about 20 stores nationwide last year, including two in Center City, according to Wawa spokeswoman Lori Bruce.

“This is not the beginning of a pullout of Center City Wawa’s,” said Bruce, who disputes rumors that the company is focusing on building Super Wawas, which are larger and include gas pumps.

Wawa has opened six stores in Philadelphia since 2004, but none in Center City.

Workers, regulars sad to lose another Wawa [Metro Philadelphia]

There was a collective gasp of horror at Foobooz headquarters today as we realized that a rumor that the Dorkchester Wawa at 20th & Locust is closing appears to be true!

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