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Marcie Turney And Valerie Safran Are Taking Over Fish

Posted by Jason Sheehan on March 11th, 2013

Over on the Insider, they’re reporting that it’s a done deal–that the owners of Barbuzo, Jamonera and Lolita (which just picked up a liquor license) have now officially decided to expand off of 13th Street (which they essentially own) and try to take on a new neighborhood by snapping up Fish.

No news on what, exactly, the pair plan to do with the double space (remember: this is also where Rhino Bar lived and died), but Klein does have a nice, succinct look back at the history of the embattled space under Mike Stollenwerk and others.

Owners of Lolita, Barbuzo and Jamonera Taking Over Fish [Insider]

Don’t Miss This: Pork Asado at Jamonera

Posted by Jason Sheehan on January 28th, 2013

With just five short nights left in this year’s Center City Restaurant Week, we’ve decided to call out individually excellent dishes at participating restaurants–just to remind you, in case you haven’t yet had a chance to try them.

And we’re starting off with a strong one: The pork asado at Jamonera, which comes as a second full course (which, counting shared amuse plates, is really the third course) on the house’s Restaurant Week dinner menu. It’s essentially a pork-two-ways kind of plate, offering roasted pork shoulder and pork belly (in a sherry-orange glaze), mounted over a corn cake with a bright and palate-cleansing orange and fennel salad on the side. Pair this with the cana de cabra (fried goat cheese), some papas fritas and the nocilla bread pudding with bourbon-caramel sauce, and you’ll understand why Restaurant Week is such a killer deal.

All Restaurant Week Coverage [Foobooz]

Restaurant Week Guide [Foobooz]

$40 10-Course Tapas Tasting at Jamonera

Posted by Alex Tewfik on December 7th, 2012

Looking for a new Sunday tradition now that Boardwalk Empire and Walking Dead are on hiatus? Well how about tapas? Every Sunday from now until January 13th, Jamonera is offering a 10-course tapas tasting menu. With plates that vary from a simple mix of spanish olives and lupine beans, to oloroso braised shortribs with catalan greens, pickled raisins, and pinenuts, this menu promises range and creativity. Throw in a flight of sherry for $20, and you won’t even miss your favorite shows.

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Ten Course Tasting Menu Returns To Jamonera

Posted by Maegan Cadet on November 9th, 2012

For one night only, Jamonera’s legendary 10-course tapas tasting menu is returning. Beginning this past summer, the Spanish wine bar served a prix fixe selection of chef-curated tapas for just $35 per person. This Sunday, November 11, those who missed the previous food fest have the chance to experience another tapas tasting, this time at $40 per person.

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Tapas Tasting Menu at Jamonera

Posted by Aubrey Nagle on August 24th, 2012

This Sunday August 26^th Jamonera will be serving a tapas tasting menu. For just $40 a person guests receive ten different tapas dishes, from grilled Spanish octopus to watermelon and roasted beets. A tasting menu is a great way to try out an array of dishes so be sure to check it out.
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Collaborative Dinner at Stateside

Posted by Foobooz on August 20th, 2012

Stateside’s George Sabatino and Jamonera chef de cuisine Paul Lyons are collaborating on a late summer tasting dinner at Stateside on Tuesday, August 28th. The seven-course dinner costs $55 per person and feature dishes like smoked corn soup, grilled French cut black bass and roasted torchon of lamb saddle.

There are three seatings, 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30. Make your reservations now and be on the look out for the optional drink pairings that should be finalized this week.

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Special Tapas Dinner at Jamonera

Posted by Foobooz on July 23rd, 2012

Photo by Jason Varney

Sunday, July 29th Jamonera is hosting a 10-course, $35 tapas dinner. The dinner from the deans of 13th Street will include gaspacho, croquettes, scallops, meatballs and six other courses.

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Sherry and Tapas at Jamonera

Posted by Foobooz on June 29th, 2012

David Snyder reviews Jamonera for City Paper this week. He’s as impressed with the sherry program as he is with the Spanish tapas.

“Sherry? Not happening in Philly.”

It is now. The list on which that El Maestro Sierra Amontillado appears, engineered by manager Terence Lewis, is staggeringly deep — 44 different sherries spanning 10 styles, from the light, bracing salinity of finos to the unctuous, stewed-figiness of Pedro Ximénez. Without the counsel of Jamonera’s well-informed staff, such depth would be overwhelming. Engage the staff, however, and soon you may gain the confidence to start your own sherry bodega.

The Reign in Spain [City Paper]
Jamonera [Official Site]

Jamonera Gets Three Bell Review

Posted by Foobooz on May 21st, 2012

Craig LaBan heaps the praise on the latest from Marcie Turney and Valerie Safran’s tapas bar, Jamonera.

Turney’s most stunning dishes, though, are dressed in squid-ink black. The calamari marinate in ink before getting crisped and are so ebony they look to have been fried in a volcano. But they’re delicate and tender, with a smoky wisp of pimenton Spanish paprika, a squirt of lemon, and garlic chips. With the mussels escabeche, whose vermouth-marinated mollusks are cleverly in a sardine can, squid ink completes the ingenious trompe l’oeil garnish of faux mussel shells molded and baked around actual shells with a potato-garlic tuile dough.

Three Bells – Excellent

Craig LaBan review: Marcie Turney and Valerie Safran’s latest, Jamonera [Philadelphia Inquirer]
Jamonera [Official Site]

Photo by Jason Varney | Fussing with Forks

Three Star Review for Jamonera

Posted by Foobooz on April 30th, 2012

Trey Popp reviews Jamonera, Marcie Turney and Valerie Safran’s new Spanish wine bar and finds excellent precision, pacing and fun.

Turney’s trend-spotting is offset by a depth of engagement with classic Spanish foodstuffs that rivals Jose Garces’s culinary curatorship. Do you like chorizo? Jamonera was using five varieties the last time I went, from smoky chistorra links from Basque country (on an egg-and-short-rib-smothered plate of papas fritas that played like a Spanish one-up on poutine) to foot-and-a-half-long canteplano sausages crafted by a Spanish expat in California, and a house-made duck chorizo enriched with fat trimmed from slices of Fermin Iberico ham.

Three Stars – Excellent

Restaurant Review: Jamonera Is Barbuzzo’s Sexy Older Sister [Philadelphia magazine]
Jamonera [Official Site]

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