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Martha Stewart: Martha's spring-fling good things

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Published May 7, 2010 at 2:27 p.m.

SPRING IS HERE, so it's time to get the garden in order, give your dining room table a green accent and add a rosy twist to classic lemonade ...

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Miga

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Korean food is ready for its close-up - with or without its fiery funk. The pleasantly posh new Miga, which dials down the chile volume without completely losing its soul in Center City's first upscale Korean dining room, is proof of that ...

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Girasole

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Published Oct. 20, 2009 at 3:46 a.m.

If only every new restaurant were lucky enough to have a booster like the Mimosa Club, there would be no empty dining rooms on a midweek night ...

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Firecreek

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Published Sept. 11, 2009 at 6:07 p.m.

The red-meat race to build Center City's biggest, most luxurious chophouse has dominated the dining headlines of the last year. But an insatiable devotion to grilled beef is hardly confined to the urban limits ...

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DINING OUT A new course: Vast, ritzy out; cozy, modest in

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Published Aug. 30, 2009 at 2:01 a.m.

Economic forces continue to pummel the restaurant industry, with more than three dozen closings in the region this year. Yet, surprisingly, at least as many eager opportunists have stepped in, checkbooks in hand, to open new ones ...

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Alfresco dining blossoms in the sun

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Published July 16, 2009 at 9:13 a.m.

After the deluge that was June, the city's streets have witnessed in recent days a rainbow of umbrellas, in this event unfurled to shield the eager patrons of sidewalk cafes not from the rain, but freakish outbursts of sun ...

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Ports of call

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Published July 5, 2009 at 4:48 p.m.

There's an almost tidal transience to the Jersey Shore dining scene that can be disconcerting to a restaurant's regulars. A hungry Shore bird works so hard to find something special at the beach, it's downright worrisome to find it missing upon your return the following year ...

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Fountain Restaurant

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Published June 10, 2009 at 11:39 p.m.

'Jackets required" is one dining-room edict that's doing a quick fade to endangered status. And while I don't regard my blazer with quite the disdain I have for ties (and the stuffy chokehold they once clamped on upscale dining), it is not a restriction I'm going to miss terribly ...

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Rich Hofmann: Reid, Banner explain how their collaboration works for Eagles

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Published June 8, 2009 at 2:01 a.m.

ANDY REID was sitting around a big table in the executive dining area at the NovaCare Complex, sitting with club president Joe Banner and a group of Daily News reporters, talking about the Eagles' great organizational mystery, even after a decade: How do Reid and Banner, football guy and money guy, work together? ...

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Dan Gross: Utleys & Specters at La Collina

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Published May 12, 2009 at 11:00 p.m.

SEN. ARLEN SPECTER and wife Joan dined with Phillies slugger Chase Utley and wife Jen at La Collina (37 Ashland) in Belmont Hills after Sunday's game. The senator attends most Sunday home games. We're told Specter and Utley were gracious to fellow diners and said hello to those who approached them. Also dining there Sunday was ...

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