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Fall Changes at Watkins Drinkery

Posted by Maegan Cadet on October 8th, 2012

With the changing of the season often comes a change in menu, and Watkins Drinkery is no stranger to this. The South Philadelphia bar has revamped its menu for the fall, lead by new chef Dieu Du, who succeeds former chef Jennifer Choplin who is now at The Butcher and the Brewer. The fall menu includes a series of autumn-inspired plates chef Dieu Du hopes will leave you thirsty for more.

Notable autumn highlights:

  • Vegan Autumnal Salad with arugula, persimmon, pear, almond, and lime vinaigrette
  • Crispy Pheasant Leg with over wilted watercress and a soy maple glaze
  • House Made Sausage Sandwich featuring the chef’s seasonal selection with accompaniments and bread also chosen by the chef.

This new menu is effective immediately, so be sure to drop by Watkins Drinkery to try one of their seasonal options.

Watkins Drinkery [Official Site]

Watkins Drinkery
1712 S 10th St, Philadephia, PA

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    • JTP

      Wow how original, I see Jonn’s still trying to have people recreate my dishes. Good luck Dieu, just watch out. Jonn Klein likes to make friends, use them for as much as he can and the s&*t all over them when he’s done. I have personally heard him tell every female server who worked for him “thank god you’re pretty” (cause i think you’re an idiot) and did you know that he changed the locks on his first chef the week before his wedding likely so he would not have to pay my vacation time.

      Be careful Dieu, he’ll screw you over and never lose a second of sleep over it.

    • Steve

      And now for a comment from someone who is an actual patron and not a bitter ex-employee…..had the veggie curry and the chili last night and both were delicious!

    • barryg

      “Dieu Du”… uh, what?

    • DramaQueen

      Looks like JenChopin likes getting screwed over more than Linda Lovelace. Way to go from the frying pan into the fire Jenster

    • Dieu

      Yes, Barryg, that is indeed my name.

    • barryg

      Is it pronounced the way I think it is?

    • Dieu

      Dee-yoo Do

    • peapi

      a boy named Sue

    • no

      My friend has a nacho review blog, and Watkins is the only place he’s hit twice (he lives nearby): http://ienjoynachos.blogspot.com/2012/09/watkins-drinkery-part-ii-nacho-boogaloo.html and http://ienjoynachos.blogspot.com/2012/04/watkins-drinkery.html

    • rory

      umm…so JTP seems to have found the right place to end up. alays good to talk shit about a former boss in public. lol.

    • http://www.floorspice.com Jennifer Choplin

      Hey DramaQueen, you were clearly raised without an ounce of respect. Considering you and I have never met, I invite you to dine at my restaurant and say these things to me in person. I am also disappointed that the comments section on Foobooz is suddenly the hot place for bitter ex-employees to complain about their bosses. Foobooz is for FOOD.

    • Lauren

      I wonder if the people who comment (in what often seems to be very hateful prose) only on restaurant politics do so primarily because they don’t know how to write interestingly or intelligently about their experiences of the food – that is, if they have even tried the food or have any intention of trying it. That is my guess. As a vegan, I’d like to say that the vegan options on the new fall menu sound delicious and I can’t wait to taste them.

    • DramaQueen

      Jenster Chopin claims to understand Respect and yet works for the Swartz’s? Is she stupid or in denial?

      Jen, what you make is not food, it’s hype and it suxs

    • peapi

      It took a doo doo to replace a jenstet oui oui oui oui all the way home

    • ALERT!1

      This is a test to see if Foobooz shut down comments on select threads.

    • Dieu

      Peapi, I’m sorry if I have done anything to wrong you but I don’t understand the personal insults directed towards me. If you have a problem with the restaurant, that’s fine but at least keep it mature and civil, please.

    • peapi

      Not insults just enjoying the irony of parents who name their kid a God and can’t figure out it sounds like shinola let’shope you don’t do same to your kids.

    • Dieu

      The name comes from translating my name from Chinese to Vietnamese to English. The fact that it means “God of” in French is entirely coincidental.

    • http://www.amusingmybouche.com Jennifer Choplin

      FooBooz admins, “Jenster Chopin” and Dieu would appreciate it if the needless personal attacks would stop. Thank you. I also invite any commenters to come try the food before judging us. Thanks!

    • Big Girl Pants

      Revelation: Maybe people HAVE tried your food, and it is underwhelming, which attributes to the reader-irritation from your crybaby defense of yourself and your current place of employ.

      If you’re above all the comments, then perhaps you should stop reading and commenting on them. Let your “work” and “professionalism” speak for itself and stop pandering to admins to save you from the fire you threw yourself in with your Swartz Stockholm Syndrome.

      Or at least you could just get drunk and write illegible tangents under a pseudonym like your team leader, Zavala. That would at least be more entertaining than your whining.

    • Reality Check

      Hey Jenn,
      Maybe you should start getting your résumé out there to a few reputable places while the getting is good. The rumor mill says your “fearless leader” has abandoned ship. Schwartz is way over his head. Cue the titanic violinists.

    • peapi

      Maybe if Vietnam wasn’t so French the jenster and swartzy would believe you doo doo

    • Lauren

      Big Girl Pants, Peapi, and Drama Queen: why such bitterness? You’re coming across as extremely unintelligent and immature. Jenn and Dieu, at least, write like adults. You can call them crybabies all you want, but all they’re doing is suggesting calmly that you refrain from making baseless comments without actually trying the food yourself which you don’t seem to have done. And when and if you do try it, it’s really the food you should be commenting on, but I have a feeling you won’t do this because you don’t know how to. To third parties they sound like the reasonable, mature ones, who are asking you to focus on the food instead of going on and on ad nauseum with the silly, weirdly hostile personal attacks.

    • Lauren

      I should add that I can understand the impulse for angry former employees to come on here and rail against the restaurant owners who’ve slighted or screwed them as well as warn present and future employees of what they might be getting into – that makes sense and that can be helpful. But that’s not what’s happening here, and in any case that point has been made, here and elsewhere. We get it.

    • Psychochef

      After reading the above comments (twice, to be certain I was not going to comment without knowledge of the actual articles)– I have to say,…wait, I think I just did. Agreeing with Lauren here. None of those named in her comment have actually said a single word about the crux of the original article,–the FOOD. I’ll say it here and now. I HAVE tasted the food, at the Drinkery, AND at the Butcher & Brewer. Chef Choplin, and Dieu Du, are both very knowledgeable and competent, and put out delicious product. There. A comment about the FOOD. Anyone else actually have a tasting to speak on?

    • SPACE GOAT

      ok… Let’s look at the some statements and then decide which one of these is untrue…
      1. Scientist in Austria have indeed verified the following… VIENNA – In a rather controversial study, Austrian scientists discovered that sperm is actually beneficial to keeping people young and could prevent Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.
      2. Italian Appliance maker Meneghini, has just released their La Cambusa model, which holds the price tag of $41,500 (US).
      3. Tori Spelling’s fourth pregnancy resulted in complications which caused internal bleeding that nearly cost the actress her life.
      4. A study found that food blogs and not reviews written by professionals are a more helpful and accurate source of information regarding quality when researching restaurants.

      Ok, so if you haven’t guessed, it’s the 4th. I had never eaten at this restaurant until a few days ago when a co-worker was reading bits and pieces of this blog to me and I became intrigued. Regardless of who any of these people are, or what their intentions may be, the food here was wonderful. I am an avid meat eater who wound up marrying an extremely picky vegan. Even at vegan-sclusive restaurants, I normally have to suffer through inedible bullshit dressed as real food, pay through my nose to do so, and still hear her bitch. Well guess what, she didn’t. And I was happy to pay, even though the prices were so reasonable that I wouldn’t have batted an eyelash were they twice what they were. It was fucking delicious all round, and the service was phenomenal. When I ordered a vodka tonic, they suggested I tried their house infused cucumber vodka. I did, and they were right. This place was fantastic, the other customers around us seemed equally pleased, and from the cheerful conversation and bouts of laughter going on at the bar, I can only assume that this place has regulars for a reason. So there you go. But honestly, you should try a restaurant because you’re hungry, not because you read a blog, and if you’ve got nothing nice to say, you should try masturbating, because it’s honestly a much better use of your time than blasting a business. It also feels really good when the cum comes out!

    • JTP

      Well if you ever worked for a prick like Jonn Klein who throws your christmas bonus at you with the disgust of having to give up a measly amount money that is likely meaningless to a person who owns 16 pieces of property 2 house and two bars to a person who needs it to pay his rent because he gets paid jack shit.
      It really makes you feel good about yourself, you know.

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