Marathon Grill owner Cary Borish, manager Nick Maldonado and contractor Mike Parsell collab’d to convert MarBar, above Marathon’s 40th and Walnut restaurant (200 S. 40th St., 215-222-0100), into Panda Bar. a live music venue with food and drink. OMGZ PANDAS!!…

Estella Canziani Procession of S. Domenico, 1913-1928 IdleSpeculations The story goes like this: In the little town of Cocullo, in the province of L’Aquila, Abruzzi, there dwell the serpari. These charmed descendants of Circe may handle the deadly biting vipers…

Photos | Drew Lazor The candy aisle at Hung Vuong Supermarket (11th and Washington) is one of my favorite stomping grounds. You can often find me there on weekday evenings, feebly “reading” foreign-language labels and pretending I give a rip…

Sprinkles on Facebook Lots of chatter about frozen yogurt � alright, we’ll call it “froyo” as long as you promise to not make fun of us too much � in Philly recently, with the openings of Sweet Ending and Yogorino…

Four pinks, 10 bucks. Photo l Michael Persico Korbel is easy to sneer at. The cheap bubbly bills itself as “Champagne,” even though that nervy claim makes real French Champagne producers froth at the mouth. It is more correctly a…

See it?! Right now we’re trying to figure out just how it got there. We’ll let you know! RELATED: Give ‘Em An Inch: Brewing up a batch of Philly Pale at the brand-new-fangled Yards facility

Scott Hockfield’s Wrap Shack (120 S. 18th St.), just off Rittenhouse, has acquired a liquor license � it’ll now be called Wrap Shack Kitchen & Bar. There’s a new 10-seat bar inside, featuring three flat-screen TVs. They’re rolling out a…

Chef Keith Taylor has done more than you. After graduating from Cornell’s culinary program in 1988, the Nutley, N.J. native ended up working for Disney at several high-end resorts. He then spent a decade cooking in Manhattan restaurants, including a…

Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer Meal Ticket recently got a chance to check out some of the stuff chef Dustin Robinson has been putting out for dinner and brunch at El Camino Real (Liberties Walk, 1040 N. Second St.)…