Philadelphia is a city of bars, dive bars, neighborhood bars, gastropubs, wine bars, beer bars, hotel bars and a host of others that defy categorization. The Foobooz Top 50 Bars touches on all of them. See if your favorites made our list.

Top 50 Bars [f8b8z]
Top 50 Bars Mapped [f8b8z]

Zavino (previously known as ‘Za Vino) has a web site and some other news. Pizza will be somewhere between Neapolitan and Sicilian. The opening is set for October. Michael Klein has some more on the menu. [The Insider]

Stephen Starr’s pizza place at 2nd and Lombard has a name. it’ll be Stella Pizza. Stella is Italian for star. [The Insider]

Through August 23rd, Capital Grille is offering a heck of a wine tasting. Sample 11 South African and Napa Valley wines selected by Sommelier George Miliotes. The unlimited tasting is just $10 per person with lunch purchase and $25 per person with dinner.

Master Wine Tasting Event [Capital Grille]

Grub Street scores an interview with Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board CEO, Joe Conti regarding the PLCB’s wine boutique concept.

Also of note in the interview:

• A wine boutique partnership with DiBruno Bros fell through at the last moment.
• The second boutique would be part of a Center City office building that is not the Comcast Center (Liberty Place anyone?).
• A DiBruno Bros collaboration at 18th and Chestnut could still happen.

PLCB Chief Talks Wine Boutiques, Partnering with DiBruno Brothers [Grub Street]

Foobooz is giving away one last pair of tickets to the Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival’s Great Market, held August 1st and 2nd from 12pm to 7pm at Bally’s Grand Ballroom.

Stroll around the expo floor and savor signature dishes from some of the best local and celebrity chefs in the country. Satisfy your grape expectations as you sample world-famous wines. For the food-obsessed, demonstrations and seminars can hone your skills.

Winning tickets is easy. We’ll ask a wine related trivia question and the first correct answer placed in the comments wins!

What Phillie pitcher recently he was partial to Bordeaux, Barolo, sper Tuscans and California Cabernets in a recent interview with Wine Spectator Magazine.

Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival [Official Site]

Foobooz is giving away a pair of tickets to the Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival’s Great Market, held August 1st and 2nd from 12pm to 7pm at Bally’s Grand Ballroom.

Stroll around the expo floor and savor signature dishes from some of the best local and celebrity chefs in the country. Satisfy your grape expectations as you sample world-famous wines. For the food-obsessed, demonstrations and seminars can hone your skills.

Winning tickets is easy. We’ll ask a wine and Foobooz related trivia question and the first correct answer left in the comments wins!

Guy Fieri will be among the celebreties at the AC Food & Wine Festival. In his show Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, which Philadelphia diner does he visit?

Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival [Official Site]

Over the next three days Foobooz will be giving away a pair of tickets to the Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival’s Great Market, held August 1st and 2nd from 12pm to 7pm at Bally’s Grand Ballroom.

Stroll around the expo floor and savor signature dishes from some of the best local and celebrity chefs in the country. Satisfy your grape expectations as you sample world-famous wines. For the food-obsessed, demonstrations and seminars can hone your skills.

Winning tickets is easy. We’ll ask a wine and Foobooz related trivia question and the first correct answer left in the comments wins!

Which Philadelphia restaurant is encouraging diners to step away from the bar and dine in their dining room by offering 50% off their wine list?

Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival [Official Site]

This Wednesday Pub & Kitchen is hosting a special wine dinner. Four courses will be paired with four American wines for $55.

Check out the menu of seasonal tastes after the jump.

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A couple of worthwhile events at Jose Pistola’s this week. Wednesday brings a lunch with Six Point Brewing Co. The brewers will be there and so will their beer, including a firkin of their hoppy Bengali Tiger IPA.

Thursday, a representative from Chimay will be in the house. There with some merchandise giveaways but more importantly, there will be all three Chimay beers available plus their cheese from 5 to 9pm.

Jose Pistola’s [Official Site]

We must admit, we have a REALLY hard time tearing ourselves away from the bar at Southwark for three very good reasons: the drinks, the bartenders and the drinks. We have also been known to dine on chef Sheri Waide’s delicious farm-to-table food at the very same bar in between the aforementioned drinks.

Clearly, we’re not alone, which is why Southwark has launched a lovely new promotion designed to encourage bar groupies like us to return to dining at a table like civilized human beings.  If you eat in the dining room or patio Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, all bottles of wine are 50% off. The wine list on their web site is up to date – prices run from $34 to $100 with the average around $50. So you can enjoy a $50 bottle of wine for just $25. Or, if you look at it another way, two $50 bottles of wine for $50.

The Southwark folk want to make it clear this deal is only available in the dining room and garden. It’s not offered at the bar or even at the tables in the bar room. Don’t worry, the bar’s not going anywhere and with all the money you save, you can head back there for an after-dinner drink.

Southwark [Official Site]