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SNACK TIME: ISO split-top and buttered, where in the world is Elsa Marvel, coming soon: an adaptable social space, an empty lipstick tube stuffed with a coil of $100 bills, Yards expanding to East Philadelphia
posted by Felicia D'Ambrosio
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| Photo courtesy Oyster House |
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Every Wednesday, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what’s simmering.
-I used to moan about the lack of lobster rolls in our fair city; the crustacean keepers must have heard my cry. Not only do we have the tony $26 version at the gorgeous old-is-new-again Oyster House, but Phoodie.info has the word on London Grill’s $13 lobby roll and $18.95 lobster bake.
- We are really into the MenuPages blog, much more so than MenuPages itself. So we’re feeling a bit worried about blogger Elsa Marvel, since the blog hasn’t been updated since June 5.  Where are you, girl? Mama says come home.
-Â Michael Klein of The Insider must have a Spidey sense for delayed openings. This week he has the details on The Commonwealth, a new “adaptable social space” in Midtown Village.
- Philly Mag food writer and What I Weigh Today blogger Joy Manning went to NYC and hit up two of the most buzzy restaurants in town, Corton and Minetta Tavern. Click over for the scoop and a new wine expert to follow on Twitter.
- Yards could be opening a brewpub in Merchantville, New Jersey, says Joe Sixpack on Beer Radar. The boys are also hard at work devising a pub for their production brewery on Delaware Avenue, which would add the entertaining spectacle of beer geeks and Octo Grille patrons alike Froggering across the Avenue on Friday nights.
I had been wondering too. Any update? I really enjoyed reading Elsa’s daily posts, I hope to see her blog back and running soon. Hope you’re OK.
Carl
sptr has a lobster roll for $14, that is absolutely amazing. taste exactly like the ones on cape cod.
Rumor has it she’s gotten the axe.