These guys had either given new meaning to "cooking the lights out," or Philly's power grid had simply popped a fuse out of joy for the chance to embrace a new Marc Vetri restaurant. But Amis was unexpectedly dark when we arrived for Official Review Dinner No. 1 ...
Are you intrigued but a little worried about that hole-in-the wall sandwich shop next to the vacant lot? Or perhaps you're wondering whether the fancy new restaurant in the strip mall has mouse droppings hidden beneath the glitz? ...
As a boy growing up in Cape May, Bill Fischer was steeped in saltwater. During the long summer days, he could be found rock diving in the Cove with his brothers, leaping off wooden pillars into the surf like Shore birds at high tide. When high school ended, young Bill, like many of his friends, found himself on a boat steamin ...
Did we really need to rediscover our inner chow mein? I didn't think so. After all, who ever thought we'd see that bland bomb of Americanized-ethnic cooking in a new restaurant - it's so mid-20th century. But just when I thought we'd arrived in a new era of sophistication in our approach to international flavors, embracing authenticity instead of hosing it down, along comes the unfortunately named Chew Man Chu, Marty Grims' campy purple wok-bar in Symphony House ...
In depressing economic times, the reopening of a small restaurant on a nondescript commercial strip may be meaningless to the financial analysts on Wall Street and in Washington ...
HALLELUJAH, I thought, when a restaurant menu label law was approved in Philadelphia last spring."Eighty-two percent of consumers want the information and, when given access, they make better choices," said Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds-Brown, who initiated the effort to require restaurant chains in the city to post calorie counts for menu items. The new regs will be in place by April 1 ...
If a recession is the ultimate test of a restaurant scene's soul, 2009 proved that Philadelphia's virtue as an eater's paradise is growing as dynamically as ever. Yes, revenues on the whole were off. And, yes, we witnessed the pillars of another era's glory days begin to tumble, as Walnut Street's Restaurant Row saw Brasserie Perrier, Susanna Foo, and Striped Bass close ...