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A pleasant lunch in the Capitol Cafe, until . . .

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Published Feb. 24, 2010 at 4:06 a.m.

HARRISBURG - Certainly, there would be no "mice-and-beans" or "rat-atouille" lunch specials on the menu.But with a track record of dismal health inspections like the one that Philadelphia-based Aramark Corp. has racked up lately at the Capitol Cafe in the state capital, the punch lines were bound to come ...

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Pelican Restaurant

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Published Feb. 15, 2010 at 1:17 a.m.

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 ...

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Chew Man Chu

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Published Feb. 6, 2010 at 8:01 a.m.

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 ...

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Elgin Diner, down on Mt. Ephraim, rising again

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Published Feb. 6, 2010 at 6:05 a.m.

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 ...

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Kimberly Garrison: You can't count on menu calorie accuracy

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Published Jan. 21, 2010 at 10:26 p.m.

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 ...

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What 2009 put on our tables

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Published Dec. 30, 2009 at 12:28 p.m.

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 ...

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Scrubbing In: Insurers' decisions on drugs mystify

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Published Dec. 22, 2009 at 3:07 a.m.

My patient, a 59-year-old Cambodian woman, has amassed one of those thick charts, the size of a small coffee-table book. It means she's a veteran of our cornea clinic ...

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Miga

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Published Nov. 12, 2009 at 11:12 a.m.

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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Pa. Vendor Gets 3 Years For Moving $2M To Pakistan

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Published Oct. 19, 2009 at 8:13 p.m.

A Philadelphia food vendor was sentenced Monday to three years in prison for illegally transferring $2 million to a region of his native Pakistan that was previously controlled by Islamic militants ...

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