For their third Oktoberfest celebration, Brauhaus Schmitz (718 South St.) is pulling out all the stops over six days of festivities, from Sept. 19 through Sept. 24. Chef Jeremy Nolen and owners Doug Hager and Kelly Schmitz have everything from…
Don’t tell the city I told you, but on the Community College of Philadelphia’s campus, you can learn Spanish without ever setting foot in a classroom. Just look for Samuel and Gloria Velazquez’s lunch truck, La Marqueza. Quilted in lime,…
Chicken, shrimp, eggplant, potatoes of the Russian banana fingerling variety. This is the motley crew I had to work with for dinner the other night. The solution? Cioppino, the San Fran invention whose whole reason for being is using up…
Ever since Scott Schroeder launched a grilled halloumi salad with galia melon at SPTR (1509 Mifflin St.), Ive been thinking how good that honeydew/cantaloupe crossbreed would be buzzed into a chilled summer soup. Well, summer’s almost over, but we’re high…
Over the weekend, an attractively packaged quart of ice cream caught my eye in the snug freezer section of Casel’s supermarket in Margate. The flavor: Lobster Tracks, churned by the fine folks of Maine stalwart Gifford’s (who incidentally claim dominion…
Through the summer, well be running monthly installments of more shore recos from a kid who’s been spending summers there since he could crawl: our very own Adam Erace. We were gone for a minute, but we’re back, over the…
Tuesday, we brought you the news that Michael Santoro (who we really, really liked!) had left the enchanted Talulas Garden (210 W. Washington Square) for a life devoid of gurgling fountains, leafy plum trees and unicorn-milk chevre. Partner Aimee Olexy…
Wine or beer? Fish or beef? Dessert or cheese? Dining in a restaurant is a process fraught with decisions, one often affecting the next, like the pages in a twist-a-plot book. But nowhere besides Stephen Starr’s spiffy new German beer…
A second restaurant is on deck for Steve and Jennifer Wagner, owners of jewel-box Lansdowne BYOB Sycamore (14 S. Lansdowne Ave.), run by chef Sam Jacobson. Located in an old hair salon on 24 N. Lansdowne Ave., the 60-seat spot…
As Mother Nature ratchets up the heat index to hellish highs this week, Meal Ticket is looking for new ways to chill out. We may have found it on Monday, when a post on a.kitchen‘s blog clued us into a…
