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Greatest Hits and What You Missed: Memorial Day Weekend Edition

Posted by Jason Sheehan on May 24th, 2013

So in case you haven’t heard, it’s a long weekend. You should really think about getting up from your desk right now and just, you know, going home. Or better yet, going out and getting something to eat and/or drink. But just in case you’re stuck there for a couple hours yet, here’s a little something to keep you from going insane until quitting time. Happy Memorial Day weekend, everyone.

Diving Horse’s Opening Menu For those of you hitting the Shore this weekend

Zoe’s Kitchen Coming To Philly More action for Bryn Mawr

Jerry’s Bar Open In NoLibs You should go to there. No, really.

Two More Weeks Of Lobster Mania At Chick’s Social And when you’re done at Jerry’s, go here

Liquored-Up Italian Ice? Oh, hell yeah

Can You Get The Best Cheesesteak In Philly For $3 Apparently, you can

Soft Shell Season Heats Up #SoftShellsInPhl

Summer Grill Packages From Wursthaus Schmitz It’s a sausage fest

Cheap Eats We head to Franzone’s in Bridgeport

Brunch At Fitler Dining Room If you didn’t already, now you have something to do on Sunday

29 Jersey Bars Are Run By Assholes “Operation Swill” catches them swapping top shelf liquor for the cheap stuff

Hey, and just so none of you out there worry, Foobooz will be dark on Monday so that our team can celebrate. Or, more accurately, so we can recover from a weekend of celebrating. See you all back here bright and early Tuesday morning.

Happy Memorial Day everyone.

May 24th, 2013

Sausage Hombre hits the streets today.

Chef Guillermo Tellez’s sausage cart made its debut today, hitting the streets at 5th and Chestnut about an hour and a half ago. He’s grilling up 5 varieties of his housemade sausage and selling them for $6 apiece (bottle of water included). So for those of you willing to brave the clouds and the drizzle, get over there now. He’s only going to be working his corner until the sausages run out.

Weekend: Memorial Day Edition

Posted by Sam Bloch on May 24th, 2013

Have a great holiday weekend.

Drew Lazor and Drexel’s TableMatters Nominated for Association of Food Journalists Awards

Posted by Foobooz on May 24th, 2013

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Drew Lazor’s (throw down the mic and walk off the City Paper stage) profile of Will’s Chris Kearse has been rightfully nominated for a Association of Food Journalists Award in the Best Newspaper Food Feature, below 125,000 circulation category. Lazor wasn’t the only local nominated. Philadelphia Daily News food editor, Laurie T. Conrad was nominated for Best Newspaper Food Coverage, above 200,000 circulation and Drexel’s Table Matters received three nominations. Jason Wilson received a nomination for Best Writing on Beer, Wine and/or Spirits for his article,When Wine Talk Gets Weird and Shelby Vittek received two nominations for her pieces, My Endangered Dinner and Old Nordic.

Photo by Neil Santos

Taco Angeleno Opening in West Philadelphia

Posted by Sam Bloch on May 24th, 2013

Taco Angeleno, a new food truck based in West Philadelphia, is opening this summer. The truck debuted the Go West Craft Fest, and also had a preview picnic on on May 17 and was at Clark Park on the 18th. The truck is run by Vanessa Jerolmack, who just completed a 9-month run as a cook at Loco Pez, where she honed her knowledge of the restaurant business. The truck will serve chicken, beef, pork, eitan, soy miso, and soy-free tacos that will also be available in burrito form.

There is also a rotating daily platter special such as enchiladas, taquitos, and tamales served with rice and beans. The truck will be based at 5019 Baltimore Avenue, which will have picnic tables where you can enjoy your tacos. If all goes well, Jerolmack plans on opening a shack on the Baltimore Ave. site that can house a full kitchen and some counter seating.

Look for the taco cart on Baltimore Avenue or at festivals throughout the summer. And you can check out a much longer profile on Jerolmack and her new truck over at West Philly Local.

Taco Angeleno [Facebook]

West Philly To Have ANew Taco Food Truck This Summer [West Philly Local]

American Sardine Bar’s John Longacre on Point Breeze

Posted by Foobooz on May 24th, 2013

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John Longacre talks Point Breeze and development over on Property, Philadelphia magazine’s real estate blog. Here are some more of the week’s most interesting real estate posts.

Follow Property on Facebook and Twitter.

Vendy Awards Announce Nominees

Posted by Taylor Bush on May 24th, 2013

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The third annual Philadelphia Vendy Awards are being held Saturday, June 8^th at Penn Treaty Park. 18 food trucks from around the city will be vying for the coveted Vendy Cup from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Ticket price includes day-of judging rights, all you can eat from each participating truck (inclusive of beer lovingly provided by Brooklyn Brewery) and a chance to say you were there.

The Vendy Awards will serve as a fundraiser for The Food Trust, the Philadelphia-based nonprofit organization that strives to make healthy food available to all.

And the nominees are »

Shake Shack Offering Corn Dogs This Weekend

Posted by Foobooz on May 24th, 2013

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Starting today and running through Monday, May 27, Shake Shack will be offering a couple of specials, the Shack Corn Dog and Pecan Pie Oh My concrete. Shake Shack only offers corn dogs three times per year (Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day), so get one now.

Shake Shack [Official Site]

Beauty Shop Cafe (and Former Foobooz World Headquarters) Sold to Farmers’ Cabinet

Posted by Arthur Etchells on May 24th, 2013

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Jon Adler has sold his Graduate Hospital coffee shop, Beauty Shop Cafe to the team from Farmers’ Cabinet. According to Adler, the Farmers’ Cabinet team plans some cosmetic changes but will continue to run the property as a café.

Beauty Shop Cafe held down the northwest corner of 20th and Fitzwater for six years, overseeing the sweeping changes that have come to the Graduate Hospital neighborhood. The coffee shop was a must stop-in spot for politicos, publicans, Phillies fans, construction workers, coffee geeks and even the odd quizzo host. When I ran Foobooz on my own, it was also my morning office and the source of more tips and stories than it ever had any right to be.

I wish Adler and the entire Beauty Shop team all the best.

Roy Choi Is Cooking In Camden?

Posted by Jason Sheehan on May 23rd, 2013

True, the weird, headless selfie ain’t much to look at. But it’s the tweet it’s attached to that made us sit up and take notice:

“Cooking in Camden then back to Philly love”

For those of you who don’t know, Roy Choi is the man behind L.A.’s slavishly adored Kogi Taco–a Korean taco food truck that people just go absolutely batshit over. (It was good enough that it snagged Choi a 2010 Best New Chef nod from Food & Wine magazine.) We don’t have any idea why (or where) he’s cooking in Camden, or what he’s doing in Philly (other than buying cheese), but until we hear otherwise, we’re just going to assume that he’s looking at bringing a new Kogi truck to town which will do nothing but follow Art and I all over the city every day.

Roy Choi [Twitter]

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Drew Lazor and Drexel’s TableMatters Nominated for Association of Food Journalists Awards

Taco Angeleno Opening in West Philadelphia

American Sardine Bar’s John Longacre on Point Breeze

Vendy Awards Announce Nominees

Shake Shack Offering Corn Dogs This Weekend

Beauty Shop Cafe (and Former Foobooz World Headquarters) Sold to Farmers’ Cabinet

Roy Choi Is Cooking In Camden?

“Cooking in Camden then back to Philly love”