Archive: February, 2013
Michael Klein, Philly.com
For the eighth consecutive year, IHOP restaurants are giving away short stacks of their buttermilk pancakes today (Tuesday, Feb. 5) to mark Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals’ 30th anniversary. Patrons are urged to contribute to the hospitals in return; in the Philly area, it's Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
I-CHOP!
The deal is good till 10 p.m. today.
Michael Klein, Philly.com
Picture this: an indoor German-style beer garden in the heart of Center City - with computerized beer-tap system on the wall, oversize garage door to bring the outdoors in, and a spot to plug in a laptop or iPad.
That's all coming in March at 1318 Chestnut St. when Bru opens.
Teddy Sourias, who owns the Finn McCool's Pub and Prime Lounge at 12th and Sansom Streets, has been putting Bru together for the last year in the former Mitchell & Ness retail shop, a double-wide storefront on a (for now) fairly quiet stretch of Chestnut Street between Juniper and 13th Streets.
Michael Klein, Philly.com
D.C.-based Top Chef's Spike Mendelsohn's camp today confirmed the location of the Philly branch of his Good Stuff Eatery.
My real estate sources had been spot-on. As I speculated two weeks ago, it is 108 S. 18th St. - which is just south of Chestnut.
Mendelsohn rep Jordyn Lazar told me that no timetable was set.
Michael Klein, Philly.com
The Philadelphia Home Show, starting Saturday at the Convention Center, has a food tie-in: Outdoorsman Steven Rinella (star of MeatEater on The Sportsman Channel) will appear from 1 to 3 p.m. on Day One to talk about hunting (he does it 150 days a year), cooking (cooks what he kills), and his new book Meat Eater: Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter. Why hunt? Says Rinella, who worked as a fur trapper till the market collapsed in the 1990s: "I don't cherish passive relationships." And if you think he's laughing at you vegans, you'd be wrong. "That's a hard-fought kind of life. It takes a tremendous amount of discipline. I respect that."
Mardi Gras cake. This will be a busy weekend at Beck's Cajun, the New Orleans-theme stands at Reading Terminal Market and 30th Street Station. And not because the Super Bowl is in New Orleans.
Beck's just started stocking king cakes. The Mardi Gras tradition - a cinnamon-and-nut round with the lucky baby Jesus figurine baked inside - are $34.95. Beck's also has cupcake-size versions - no baby inside, lest some unsuspecting soul bite in - for $3.95.
