“We’re pumped about the seven fishes,” chef Brad Spence tells Meal Ticket. This Friday, Dec. 23, at Amis (412 S. 13th St.), he’s cooking baccala, monkfish, eel and more aquatic creatures for the classic Italian-American repast. “This is the second…
Nate Adler, whose short-lived Kitchen at Penn (now Roost) peddled some promising eats around the Ivy League last year, is back in the food game with The Walkin Kitchen, a “culinar-e-magazine” he launched with girlfriend Sanae Lemoine this month. “It’s…
Thanksgiving has come and gone, and if your fridge is looking anything like mine, baggies and containers of leftovers are threatening to take over. Heres a way to kill two leftover birds with one stone: turkey tacos with chipotle-cranberry salsa.…
Open about a week is Tea Shake Fusion, a pastel boba hut perched on the corner of 11th and Snyder. Furnished with a granite slab counter, barstools, ATM and froyo-fave mosaic glass tile, the spot specializes in milk and bubble…
UPDATE [14nov11]: Check out our photo sneak peek of Route 6. It was way back in ’08 that murmurs of a New England-themed oyster bar called Littleneck floated around town. Soon, that Stephen Starr seafooder comes to fruition, not as…
If Scott Schroeder wasnt the chef at SPTR (1509 Mifflin St.), hed have a career in developing press-release intros like the attention-grabbing gem above. Today, he dropped word of his upcoming two-part Allagash dinner with former 10 Arts chef Jennifer…
Jessie Prawlucki, one third of the team at Meal Ticket fave Fond (1617 E. Passyunk Ave.), reports her days-from-opening pastry shop, Belle Cakery (1437 E. Passyunk Ave.), passed its health inspection on Wednesday. Seated across the street from the P.O.P.E.…
From the esoteric beet-soda and grapefruit-sherbet cocktails and punches to the exotic Euro beers, there is an unholy amount of delectable things to drink at Farmer’s Cabinet (1113 Walnut St.). It’s unfair, really; they should serve a spare liver in…
Neal Santos MEAT ME IN FISHTOWN: Loco Pez’s bestial “Nachos de Kenzo” features three kinds of meat: carne asada, pulled chicken and spicy chorizo. [ review ] “In L.A.,” my friend explained, “little old Mexican ladies set up totally illegal…
Two local down-on-their-luck restaurants are getting a Gordon Ramsay reno next month when his show Kitchen Nightmares comes to town to film. First up: red-sauce BYOB Chiarella’s (1603 E. Passyunk), which will shoot from Nov. 8 to 11. After, Ramsay…