Cali-based beer sommeliers Christina Perozzi and Hallie Beaune’s The Naked Pint: An Unadulterated Guide to Craft Beer, which dropped last week, is an exhaustive road map for the craft beer curious, touching on beer varieties, history, food pairing, home brewing,…

Blackfish‘s Chip Roman (119 Fayette St., Conshohocken) is launching a monthly guest chef series, where the chef’ll bring in friends and colleagues to produce seven-course, $85-a-head tastings. Cooking the first dinner, scheduled for Monday, Nov. 2 � Ideas in Food’s…

see more Celeb Look-A-Likes Maria Valetta Posted 2009-10-09 09:53:43 I ate at Kevin Gillespie's restaurant Woodfire Grill in Atlanta this past July. We watched Kevin Fire things up from his open kitchen. He is a great Chef. This was my…

Building a quality gingerbread dwelling is only a slightly less time-consuming and frustrating� project than taking on an life-size West Philly fixer-upper.� Bob Vila, master of home improvement, takes the cursing out of the cheeriest season with his diagrammed instructions…

Old City presents both an enticing bustle of pedestrian traffic and a concept conundrum to enterprising restaurateurs.� It is stuffed with tourists visiting historic sites, locals walking to and from their homes workplaces and carloads of ladies in sparkly party…

Chef Al Paris, who opened Mantra at 18th and Sansom in 2006, is closing the restaurant this weekend to reconceptualize it as Bar Amalfi, a casual, wine-friendly Italian neighborhood spot. “This concept is very dear to me,” says Paris of…

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After the jump, peruse the bar and dinner menus, plus the beer and cocktail lists, for Square 1682, opening tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. in the lobby of Kimpton Hotels’ brand-new Palomar at 17th and Sansom. Want more on the green-first…

Yesterday, Meal Ticket asked you to come up with a cheeky moniker for the as-yet-unnamed pig that’ll serve as the mascot for chef Matthew Levin’s forthcoming barbecue restaurant Rubb. Today, we’re talking to the former Lacroix chef, who’s sharing the…