Jennifer Carroll

Special Industry Night with Jen Carroll and Philadelphia Distilling Tonight at Emmanuelle

Posted by Foobooz on April 15th, 2013

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After 9 p.m. at Emmanuelle tonight is a special industry fundraiser. The Northern Liberties cocktail bar will be offering special cocktails made with Philadelphia Distilling products. Jen Carroll will also be lending a hand, whipping up free snacks. The cocktails are $5 and the night is also a fundraiser for Wine to Water, a charity that aims to bring clean water to people around the world.

Emmanuelle [Official Site]

I think This Pretty Much Answers The Jen Carroll Question

Posted by Jason Sheehan on March 26th, 2013

There’s been a persistent rumor running through the restaurant community that Jennifer Carroll‘s NYC project, Concrete Blonde, has fallen apart and that she has come back to Philadelphia. We’ve heard about her consulting, helping out beleaguered bakers, and hanging out all over town. What we didn’t have was any concrete proof (concrete, get it?) that she was back in any kind of permanent way. Until now.

This is the profile page for Jennifer Carroll’s twitter account. See down there in the last line? Where it says “Philly”?

Up until recently, that used to say “Philly / New York”. But not anymore.

Welcome home, Jen.

UPDATE: Grub Street gets word directly from Jennifer Carroll that her Concrete Blonde project in West Village is dead.

About Saturday Night: Chip Roman Debuts New Candy Line and Jen Carroll Helps Out

Posted by Foobooz on March 25th, 2013

Saturday Night was ACHIEVEability’s Food for Thought charity event, where more than thirty local restaurants prepared tasting plates for guests of the event.

HughE Dillon was there and in this photo captured just about all the news to be had at the charity event. Chip Roman, owner of Blackfish, Mica and Ela was on hand showing off his new line of Bluestone candies. Jen Carroll was helping out Phoebe Esmon as Esmon served a couple of different punches for the assembled, but Carroll couldn’t help but come to the aid of Karl Isaiah, of Cake Boulangerie, who was serving solo next to Esmon’s cocktail stand.

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Details Emerge On Jen Carroll’s NYC Restaurant

Posted by Jason Sheehan on November 27th, 2012

Curious about what’s happening with Jen Carroll’s new Greenwich Village version of Concrete Blonde? Even more curious about the events that transpired which drew her out of the confines of Philly and into the deep waters of the NYC restaurant scene? Well, over on the Philly Post, Richard Rys has some of the answers–which include ex-boyfriends, battles with investors, the loss of a damn-near-perfect Center City location (rhymes with Schmarathon…) and the magic of television.

Here’s a taste:

[Carroll] refuses to nail down a target opening date (“sometime in 2013”), and acknowledges that while her Top Chef cachet kept her afloat this past year, it may work against her in a city where jaded gourmands feast on failed celebuchefs. Her plan to avoid that fate is blunt, as usual: “The food has to be fucking amazing,” she says. “I need to live up to it. If not, it’s my fault.”

You can check out the whole interview right now, over on the Philly Post. Just follow the link below.

Jen Carroll Dishes On Her New York Restaurant [Philly Post]

Life After Top Chef Contains a Healthy Dose of Reality

Posted by Arthur Etchells on October 5th, 2012

Wednesday night saw Bravo’s latest dip into the the Top Chef well as Life After Top Chef debuted opposite the Presidential debate. Philadelphia’s Jennifer Carroll is joined by Richard Blais, Spike Mendelsohn and Fabio Viviani as the foursome set out to make it on their own before their TV reality stardom fades. And unlike most reality shows, this first episode keeps it real.

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New York Times on Jennifer Carroll and Life After Top Chef

October 3rd, 2012

They are the opposite of Ms. Carroll, who has sad, defeated eyes. Of the four, she is the only one without a restaurant (or soon-to-open one) to her name, and it clearly gnaws at her.

– New York Times reviews Life After Top Chef

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Tonight Is the Debut of Jennifer Carroll and Life After Top Chef

Posted by Foobooz on October 3rd, 2012

Tonight marks the debut of Life After Top Chef on Bravo. Hometown Philadelphia girl Jennifer Carroll and now New York restaurateur will of course be starring. Check it all out tonight at 10 p.m.

Life After Top Chef with Jennifer Carroll Debuts October 3rd

Posted by Foobooz on August 27th, 2012

Bravo TV’s Life after Top Chef is set to debut on October 3rd. The show will follow Richard Blais, Fabio Viviani, Spike Mendelsohn and Philadelphian Jennifer Carroll in their life after appearing on Top Chef. Of particular interest to Foobooz readers will be Carroll’s struggles to open her Concrete Blonde restaurant in Philadelphia.

Life after Top Chef [Official Site]
Jennifer Carroll Bio [Life After Top Chef]

Monica Glass Leaving Town

Posted by Foobooz on August 9th, 2012

Philadelphia’s favorite pastry chef without a restaurant is leaving town for Boston. Monica Glass will be taking the Executive Pastry Chef position at Clio and Uni in Boston. Glass, who was one half of the dynamic duo of herself and Jennifer Carroll at 10 Arts, joins Carroll in heading out of Philadelphia. Carroll is working on opening a restaurant in New York City.

We wish Monica the best and hope Glass visits frequently.

@ChefMoni [Twitter]

Jenn Carroll Goes Before NYC Neighborhood Board

Posted by Foobooz on July 13th, 2012

Eater is reporting that Jennifer Carroll and her lawyer received approval to go ahead on her West Village restaurant. So it would really seem that the Top Chef star is really leaving her hometown for New York. We’re more disappointed by this than we would have imagined.

Details Emerge About Jen Carroll’s NYC Restaurant [Eater]

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