Back to Blog home email font size comments 3 options   Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Cafe con Chocolate is reopening When a restaurant closes “temporarily,” the likelihood of it ever reopening is about as slim as a cocktail straw. So…

The last time we visited Paloma (763 S. Eighth St.), the vivid haute Mexican in Bella Vista, the Phillies were struggling against the Giants in the 2010 NCLS. And that’s the problem, according to Barbara Cohan-Saavedra, who co-owns the Northeast…

  Honeygrow (1601 Sansom St.), which starts serving salads and stir-fries next month, has a nifty promo lined up for its premiere. (We first mentioned the place in December.) Owner Justin Rosenberg has earmarked $1,080 of funds to pay customers’…

Peter McAndrews, the most Italian Irish guy we know, says his Media restaurant in the old Locust Crest Tavern (1191 N. Middletown Road) should be ready by next week. Name of the pizzeria has changed a bit, and changed sex,…

Last Friday, XFINITY Live!, Comcast‘s indoor/outdoor entertainment district on the site of the demolished Spectrum, cracked its first beers. The sprawling complex features five distinct eating/drinking venues, plus the Philly Marketplace, which features stands from Nick’s Roast Beef and Chickie’s…

It’s about that time, kids, when we begin inundating you with fresh menus greened with fiddleheads and asparagus and spring garlic and rhubarb and ramps. Chadd Jenkins of Little Fish (746 S. Sixth St.) just dropped his new bill of…

It’s been 16 months since the vivacious Joan Verratti knocked on our, door toting a distilling license (the first female in the country to do so since Prohibition, allegedly) and a Crown Royal bottle filled with limoncello. Now, she and…

Food/Drink email print font size comments 0 options   Posted: Thu, Mar. 29, 2012, 12:00 AM Speak L’Afrique Le Bercail serves bold West African cooking with a side of French. Adam Erace City Paper Neal Santos GAME OF BONES: Le…

Food/Drink email print font size comments 0 options   Posted: Thu, Mar. 29, 2012, 12:00 AM Speak L’Afrique Le Bercail serves bold West African cooking with a side of French. Adam Erace City Paper Neal Santos GAME OF BONES: Le…