SNACK TIME: Top 10 dishes, where to revive your sorry carcass Jan. 1, winners, winners, everywhere, don’t get open-bar busted, a bellyful of bells
posted by Felicia D'Ambrosio
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| Michael Persico for Philadelphia Weekly |
| Fond feelings for the Village Whiskey burger abound this year |
Every Wednesday, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what’s simmering.
– Adam Erace crowns the PW’s 10 Best Dishes of 2009 and provides a scathing quiz on the five worst, in multiple-choice format.
– Foobooz lists places to eat and drink even more on New Year’s Day, including who is serving bacon-topped bloody marys. Our livers are cringing in anticipation.
– The last days of the year are OpinioNation, and Collin Flatt of Phoodie.info isn’t about to keep his to himself. The 2009 Phoodies are posted; laurels have been placed on the brows of a few multiple-year winners.
– Planning on heading to a fixed-price, open-bar New Year’s Eve party? KleInsider rains all over your sodden parade with the news that open bars (not at catered events) are illegal in our fair Commonwealth. Read the Title 40 regulations and hide the bongs while you’re at it.
– Craig LaBan runs down The Year in Bells in the Inquirer, adding a few ringers here and there to deserving spots (Mémé, Snackbar) and ripping their sole bell away from the ever-hangdog Del Frisco’s.










