Staff Blog
Philly location of Kibitz Room to open after Passover
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| thekibitzroom.com |
Neil Parish, owner of Kibitz Room in Cherry Hill, will open his second location at 1521 Locust Street in around two weeks’ time. All the homemade hits will be available — hot corned beef, hot pastrami, smoked fish prepped by “a licensed loxologist,” etc. (Parish’s spot is not affiliated with Kibitz at the City at Seventh and Chestnut, though both spaces were founded by original owner Russ Cowan.)
Once a month, Parish adds, he plans on holding a reservation-only “Roumanian steakhouse” night in the style of Sammy’s on NYC’s Lower East Side — veal chops, skirt steak, potato pancakes, kreplach, chocolate egg creams, etc. They’ll be open for breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week, with late-night-ish hours (11 p.m. or midnight) on Fridays and Saturdays.
[...] Neil Parish who owns the Kibitz Room in Cherry Hill will be opening a Center City location at 1521 Locust Street in a couple of weeks. [Meal Ticket] [...]
The Kibitz Room should figure out its true identity. The sign on its new location’s window proclaims it to be a “Real New York Deli”. Does that mean that corn beef will be sliced thick and served hot on sandwiches like New York, or thin and cold like Philly? The sign either implies that Philly doesn’t have it’s own style of deli, or that it does, and the New York type is more appealing. Both options are equally insulting to the local dining community and perhaps should have been taken into consideration before so proudly associating with our neighbor to the north.
yikes…so would a “Chicago style deep dish” place be demeaning to Philly’s pizza scene also?
There’s a clear NYC deli style. Kibitz (hopefully! that stuff is good!) is trying to follow in that tradition. What’s the problem? Sometimes the Philly inferiority complex really does come out amongst us foodies here and it’s just bizarre.