“Humble” Bob Shoudt, who’s currently ranked fourth in the world by the International Federation of Competitive Eating, placed third yesterday in the first-ever Stroehmann Sandwich Slamm, which required contestants to throw down on 6-ounce corned beef sandwiches on Stroehmann’s rye…

The other day, we were thinking about the long-standing rumor, set off by this 2008 Philadelphia Business Journal article, that the UK-based Wagamama noodle bar chain was hunting for a Philly location. So we decided to drop the company, which…

Photo | Michael T. Regan Del Frisco’s Shang Skipper “That could not be further from the truth,” said Skipper, who stressed what a serious investment the multi-restaurant chain has made in its eight-month-old Center City steak house. “We’re not going…

You’re so pretty. surlatable.com Working at a media outlet means laboring beneath a trembling avalanche of unsolicited information every day. Snowdrifts of faxes, endless e-mails, stolen Post Office cartons heaped with paper mail and mystery packages share City Paper‘s office…

epicurious.com I mentioned Mark Bittman’s  Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating earlier today in my first post about about The Week Without Meat challenge, pointing out that my almost-entirely-flesh diet is antithetical to the healthful, low-impact approach to eating…

Black Velvet via The Greasy Spoon Back in the day, before SEPTA rehabbed the Market-Frankford El line and added the animatronic voice-lady, you had to stick your head out the window and see what was coming up to judge your…

Chicken Nugget Coop Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times Brit graffiti artist Banksy is known all over the world for his subversive street art. His painted works are typically sprayed on buildings, roadways, sidewalks — even boats and…

The Drexel Hill-based Fresh Grocer, which opened a Northwest Philly location near La Salle’s campus back in August, is debuting its second location in that region of the city next Friday, Dec. 11. Located in Progress Plaza (close to Temple),…

Nifty Fifty’s, a five-outlet, family-run chain that opened its doors in 1987, harkens to the era before giant corporate conglomerates took over the American fast-food market. The flat, old-school burgers are ground and shaped in their own on-premises butcher shop.…