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Village Whiskey Burger Does Not Live Up to Hype

Posted by Victor Fiorillo on April 16th, 2013

It’s taken four years, but I finally made it into Village Whiskey last night. Jose Garces’ much-ballyhooed 20th Street spot has been on my list since its opening in 2009 (and I did have a problematic drink at the Revel location last year), but my aversion to lines, crowds and hostess Nazis has kept me away. Read the rest of this entry »

Spencer’s Burgers Are All About the Toppings

Posted by Aubrey Nagle on September 27th, 2012

Brian Freedman took a trip on over to Drexel‘s campus to check out Spencer ETA Burger, brought to campus by the team behind Sabrina’s (the brunch spot’s West Philly locale is in the same building). What he found there was “drunk-food par excellence” and patties with scene-stealing toppers that’ll make the biggest carnivore love Spencer’s veggie burgers.

The homemade toppings here take center stage, not just over the meatless burgers but over the beef as well. The meat is fine, mind you—plenty juicy and seasoned with a deft hand—but the toppings tend to be so generously applied, and occasionally so baroque in their constituent combination of components, they simply steal the proverbial show.

The Toppings Are What Stand Out At Spencer ETA Burger [Philadelphia Weekly]
Spencer ETA Burger [Official Site]

Photo by Felicia Perretti.

Tonight: Celebrity Bartender Series at R2L

Posted by Aubrey Nagle on August 8th, 2012

As part of R2L’s Celebrity Bartender series District Attorney Seth Williams will be taking the stand – er, bar – tonight and serving up cocktails from 6-8pm with $1 from each drink going to his charity of choice, the Pet Support Phashion Charity Affair. And tonight only, chef Daniel Stern will be serving up the DA Burger (pictured above) in honor of Williams, which will feature LaFrieda beef, grilled bacon and salami, Gruyere cheese, french fries, collard slaw, heirloom tomato, caramelized onion and R2L’s special sauce.

Each burger is $22 which, yes, is pretty damn pricey, but $5 from each burger sold goes toward the PSPCA. So you can feel good about helping animals while eating at least two of them.

This series, which has recently featured “Philebrities” like Stan Hochman of the Daily News, radio personality Howard Eskin, and Eagles defensive end Darryl Tapp, is set to occur Tuesday and Wednesday nights this summer with more celebrities to come. Stop by throughout the summer to see your favorite local celebs behind the bar for charity.

R2L [Official Site]

Pet Support Phasion Charity Affair [petsinphilly.com]

Weeknight Specials at The Industry

Posted by Aubrey Nagle on July 27th, 2012

The newly opened The Industry is holding fun meal specials on Sunday and Monday nights. On Sundays from 10-1 a.m. chef Pat Szoke will be serving a public Staff Meal: the same dishes the staff is served after hours for the public for just $6 a plate.

The Industry Burger gets the spotlight during Monday Night Burgers and Bubbles. The quarter-pound ground brisket with lettuce, tomato, onion, and pickled mayo will be served one of two ways: either with a glass of sparkling cava or brut rose for $11 or with a bottle of Miller High Life (“The Champagne of Beers”) for $7.50. Tuesdays also feature a five-bottle bucket of High Life for $10 each.

And in their regular homage to the restaurant biz, card-carrying industry workers will get 20% off seven days a week.

The Industry [Official Site]

Burger 21 Coming to Voorhees

Posted by Jason Sheehan on July 19th, 2012

For those of you out there who just didn’t think there were enough burgers in the world (or in New Jersey), here’s some good news: Burger 21–a franchise-happy burger chain out of Florida and owned by the company behind the Melting Pot chain of fondue restaurants (another thing folks just can’t get enough of, presumably)–is opening their northernmost operation in beautiful Voorhees, NJ according to the Philadelphia Business Journal. Burger 21 is known for offering 21 different kinds of burgers (natch), running the gamut from plain ol’ beef to turkey, tuna, shrimp and chicken.

But what’s really worth looking forward to is the other stuff on the menu. Like the beer cheese fries with bacon, the chili-cheese dogs and the retro Boylan black cherry floats. That spring 2013 opening can’t come quick enough.

Burger 21 [Official website]

PYT Getting In The Summer Spirit

Posted by Jason Sheehan on June 22nd, 2012

So we were having this debate recently on burgers and high-end burgers and bar burgers and what, really, could be done to the burger that hasn’t already been done. Because it was a slow day around the office, talk turned to semantics–to specific definitions of what a burger could (and could not) be–and during the course of this, we wondered whether a burger had to be made of beef in order to consider it a burger. And if not, what meat could be used and what could be done to it before it left the realm of burger-dom and became something…else.

Needless to say, we didn’t settle anything on that day. The question is still very much up for debate. But in the meantime, the good folks over at PYT are pushing the boundaries of definition with the summer addition of shrimp, lobster and crab burgers to their ever-changing specials menu. The snap above leads me to think that a burger certainly can be made of sea critters–of chopped jumbo shrimp and lobster/crab cakes. Mostly because it just looks so delicious.

PYT [Facebook]

Food & Wine List Shuns Philly’s Killer Burgers

Posted by Victor Fiorillo on October 17th, 2011

It wasn’t so long ago that Food & Wine finally acknowledged Philadelphia as a “Great Food City.” But they sure dropped the ball on their new list of the 25 best burgers in the United States, which features not a single one from these parts. Read the rest of this entry »

Greatest Hits and What You Missed: Burgers, Peeps, Donuts and Fork & Barrel Fallout

Posted by Jason Sheehan on April 22nd, 2011

“And then there were two. Village Whiskey doubled up the Royal Tavern in one semifinal while Pub & Kitchen sank the Standard Tap’s burger in the other.

And so it is set, the Battle of Twentieth Street for the best burger in town…”

Vote now in the final week of our epic burger battle and be a part of deciding who has the best burger in Philly.

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Greatest Hits And What You Missed: Burgers, Butter, Bankruptcy and Nuclear Tuna

Posted by Jason Sheehan on April 8th, 2011

“Lots of eye-rolling went on back in 2008 and 2009 when Philadelphia saw a trifecta of grand steakhouses opening in a city (and nation) on the verge of economic disaster: Stephen Starr’s Butcher & Singer, Dallas-based chain Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse, and the $12 million locally-owned Union Trust on Washington Square West. Well, Starr slid right through the mess, as he tends to do. And though Del Frisco’s has had its share of problems (unpaid bills and the hilarious dumpster wars, for instance) and rumors of its demise pop up now and again, it seems to have weathered the storm. But Union Trust has not been so lucky.”

From “Union Trust Files For Bankruptcy,” just the start of a saga that promises to drag on for a good, long time.

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