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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.

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]

Greatest Hits and What You Missed: Softshells, Ice Cream, Potato Skins, Liquor, Dan Dan Noodles, Lobster Rolls and the Death of Le Bec Fin

Posted by Jason Sheehan on May 17th, 2013

It’s a beautiful evening. What are you doing sitting around reading about food when you could be out eating it? But hey, for those of you still stuck at your desks or whatever, here are some of the stories you might’ve missed this week…

Scoop DeVille is Reopening And just in time for ice cream season, too

Potato Skins Now A Permanent Part of the Menu at The Industry You’ll have to read the post to know why this is such a big deal

How Much Wine Does It Take To Float Del Frisco’s? About a million dollar’s worth ought to do it

Big News From Citron & Rose And a new chef is just the beginning

Who Are Philadelphia’s Kitchen Nightmares? In which we shamelessly hop on the Amy’s Baking Company media bandwagon

Free Dan Dan Noodles At Han Dynasty And all it’ll cost you is a parking ticket

Where To Eat Softshell Crabs This Season Yeah, we’re keeping track

Food Trucks and Sidewalk Go-Go Dancing All at the Trestle Inn Tonight

First Bite: Luke’s Lobsters The Lobster God is pleased…

Le Bec Fin is Closing In June Last one out, please turn off the lights

On Scott Schroeder’s Doorstep: The Kind Of Present That Only Chefs Love Getting

Because seriously? To anyone else, this would basically be the start of a very weird horror movie.

~@foodsyoucaneat

First Bite: Luke’s Lobster

Posted by Jason Sheehan on May 16th, 2013

The Thursday that sign is referring to is today. And noon was already two hours ago. So if you’re not at Luke’s Lobster right now, stuffing your face full of lobster rolls, what’s your excuse?

Mine is that I dropped in last night on the soft open/preview and that I’m still kinda stuffed–mostly because, at a certain point, I just gave up on the dining room and started hanging out by the pass rail of the open kitchen, grabbing half-rolls off the trays as fast as the cooks could lay them down. Waiting my proper turn? That’s for suckers. Especially when I’ve already been waiting so long for a lobster roll done right and served for a price that doesn’t immediately put it in the realm of the only-if-someone-else-is-paying expense account lunch.

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Hey, You Wanna See What Hundreds Of People Eating Free Chocolate Looks Like?

Posted by Jason Sheehan on May 15th, 2013

It looks a lot like this–on a perfectly warm and sunny day in Rittenhouse Square, for the first of our Best Of Philly public tastings.

We had several hundred people show up. The line stretched long but moved fast. And while we obviously can’t tell you yet who the people picked as the winner (you’ll have to wait for August’s Best of Philly issue for the final reveal), I can say that I snuck a look inside the bag full of completed ballots and saw votes for all five nominated chocolatiers–Eclat Chocolate, Chocolates By Mueller, Marcie Blaine Artisinal Chocolates, Lore’s Chocolates and Shane Confectionery–who made the trek today.

For those of you who couldn’t make it–or who didn’t heed our warnings and showed up a little too late–we have the next best thing to eating chocolate: Pictures of chocolate. Check out the photo spread after the jump.

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Xi’an Famous Food, Now Open In Chinatown

Posted by Jason Sheehan on May 15th, 2013

Over at Midtown Lunch, they’re all twitterpated (and with good reason) over the recent opening of Xi’an Famous Food at 902 Arch Street in Chinatown, in the former home of Szechuan Tasty House–which was a pretty good restaurant, but with an awesome name.

Before you Manhattan day-trippers get too excited, this Xi’an Famous apparently has nothing to do with the beloved mini-chain of the same name out of New York. But for those of you aching for a taste of Xi’an (one of the ancient cities of China, and one with its own unique cuisine), that probably won’t matter at all.

Philly, We Are Finally Getting Our Own Xi’an Famous Food [Midtown Lunch]

May 15th, 2013

Free stuff alert!

In about a half hour, we’ll be down in Rittenhouse Square giving away free chocolate as part of our first Best of Philly 2013 Public Tasting. It starts at noon and will go until all the chocolate is gone. All you need to do is vote on who you think is best.

Citron & Rose Moves Forward

Posted by Jason Sheehan on May 14th, 2013

The last time we heard anything from Citron & Rose–the kosher restaurant opened in Merion by David Magerman, Michael Solomonov and Steve Cook–it was that Cook, Solo and their chef, Yehuda Sichel were leaving. It was a weird moment and no one really seemed to know what to make of the sudden rupturing of the partnership that had brought to the Main Line one of the most interesting restaurants it’d seen in years.

But now there’s new news from C&R, and it’s pretty big.

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Greatest Hits and What You Missed: Memorial Day Weekend Edition

Roy Choi Is Cooking In Camden?

“Cooking in Camden then back to Philly love”

Greatest Hits and What You Missed: Softshells, Ice Cream, Potato Skins, Liquor, Dan Dan Noodles, Lobster Rolls and the Death of Le Bec Fin

On Scott Schroeder’s Doorstep: The Kind Of Present That Only Chefs Love Getting

Because seriously? To anyone else, this would basically be the start of a very weird horror movie.

First Bite: Luke’s Lobster

Hey, You Wanna See What Hundreds Of People Eating Free Chocolate Looks Like?

Xi’an Famous Food, Now Open In Chinatown

Citron & Rose Moves Forward