This week The Bite focuses on a few spots that are serving up delicious Thanksgiving Dinners.

This Thanksgiving, if you can’t make it home, there are plenty of places to get a turkey dinner as good as — or better than — the one grandma makes. However, don’t expect any can-shaped cranberry sauce.

The Bite appears every Wednesday in the Metro and is written by Foobooz editor Arthur Etchells

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The White Dog Cafe had a big block party for Bastille Day a couple of weeks ago but that was only the beginning. This Friday night is Noche Latina Block Party. August 10th brings Rum & Reggae: Caribbean themed street party to Sansom Street and Dance of the Ripe Tomatoes comes on Friday, September 7th.

Each block party costs $40 per person, including tax, gratuity, dinner and live entertainment, alcohol is not included.

Details after the jump.

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The 3rd Annual Good Food, Good Beer and the Rest Is History event is taking place on Saturday July, 21st under the Headhouse Square shambles at 2nd and Lombard from 5:30 to 8:30 PM.

This Buy Fresh Buy Local food and beer tasting event will include food from Bridget Foy’s, General Lafayette Inn, James, Run for the Hills, Rx, White Dog, Xochitl and Zot. Brewers will include Dogfish Head, General Lafayette, Sly Fox, Stoudt’s, Triumph, Troegs, Victory and Yards.

The Philadelphia Convivium of Slow Food and its local partner Farm to City are co-sponsors of the event. The event is a fund-raiser for Slow Food.

Tickets are $30 for 5 sample food plates or $22 for 3 sample food plates. For advance tickets, call Slow Food at 718-260-8000 and ask for The Rest Is History event. Tickets will also be available at the entrance (cash only).

Local Food Philly [Official Site]
Slow Food Philly [Official Site]
Farm to City [Official Site]
White Dog Cafe Foundation [Official Site]

On Friday, July 13th at 8 pm, White Dog Café will host its 25th Annual Bastille Day Block Party A strolling Parisian accordionist will entertain you as you dine on French Buffet dinner under tent top. Following dinner, sing “La Marseillaise” and light sparklers, then storm the Bastille where imprisoned white French poodles are released by revolutionaries.

Menu after the jump.

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Joe Sixpack asks the question who would you rather drink with, Fido or some crumb snatching kid. Unsurprisingly Joe picks the pups and gives a good list of places where you can enjoy a cold one with your favorite cold-nosed friend.

• Le Bus
• London Grill
• White Dog Cafe
• Bliss
• Caribou Cafe
• Newportville Inn
• Triumph Brewing, New Hope
• Four Dogs Tavern

Another new spot to check out with your four-legged companion is Tavern 17 where later this summer they’ll be unveiling a “doggie menu.”

Can we be a truly great city if we can’t have a brew with Rover? [Philadelphia Daily News]

Brewers Art brings craft beer and gourmet cuisine together. On Sunday, April 1st, from 5 to 8 PM at the Reading Terminal Market. Over 18 regional craft breweries and regional restaurants will be matched at stations throughout the market. Each station will offer two sample dishes paired with a complimenting handcrafted beer.

This 3rd annual craft brew and gourmet restaurant showcase will benefit the Fair Food Project. Fair Food works to support a sustainable local food system in the Philadelphia region.

Ticket price is $50 for general admission, which enables ticketholder to unlimited tasting and sampling! This is a change from previous years where the admission price only got you a limited number of dishes and beers.

Tickets are on sale now. Purchase tickets online at www.whitedogcafefoundation.org.

Participating restaurants and Breweries after the jump.

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The Daily News checks in with twelve local chefs to see what they are resolving to do in 2007.

FRONT-BURNER RESOLUTIONS [Daily News]

After 24 years in the business, Judy Wicks is ready to step away from her White Dog Cafe.

The White Dog Cafe which may be as well known for its good causes as good food is going to be turned over to its employees.

Just seven months shy of her 60th birthday, Wicks says she’s been looking down, into the cafe, too long. It’s time to look up and outward.

Time to take her place on the national scene, educating a larger audience about the ethics of eating.

White Dog’s owner ready to move on [Philadelphia Inquirer]

The Many White Dog Pedigrees [Philadelphia Inquirer]
White Dog Cafe [Official Site]

The White Dog Cafe is celebrating its annual Native American Thanksgiving Dinner Sunday, November 19th.

The meal will feature a menu of 100 percent sustainably harvested seafood, humanely raised meat and poultry, locally grown fruits and vegetables and a greeting from the evening�s guests of honor, members of the Lenape Nation, the original inhabitants of the Delaware Valley area, who will receive a percentage of the dinner�s proceeds. The event will cost $40 per person, plus tax and gratuity. Reservations are required.

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More nostalgia in City Paper today as the paper turns to some local eateries of a similar age to reflect on Philadelphia’s restaurant scene.

City Paper asks, City Tavern, Deux Cheminees, Friday Saturday Sunday, Le Bec Fin, Philadelphia Fish & Company and White Dog Cafe for some back story, most popular dish, secret to success, and most missed restaurant.

Silver Platter [City Paper]