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(04/23/09 1:56am)
Far from the Island of Cyprus, Kanella — a new BYOB located on 10th and Spruce — brings a breath of fresh air to Philadelphia’s Mediterranean offerings. Kanella, which means cinnamon in Greek, offers a combination of dishes from Cyprus and the Greek Isles. Konstantinos Pitsillides, chef and owner of the restaurant, creates a wide range of appetizers and main courses that draw on the traditional Cypriot ingredients and simple cooking methods of his native culture.
(03/19/09 5:34am)
In a sea of egg & cheese and Chinese food trucks, GiGi’s stands out with its Southern comfort food classics and Caribbean specialities. At the corner of 38th and Spruce, this food truck proudly boasts the “largest platters in the city.” GiGi and Big R serve massive helpings of fried chicken, fried fish, oxtail, Jamaican jerk chicken and curry chicken, alongside a wide selection of side dishes. At $10 and under, these dishes are slightly pricey for a food truck, but the serving size and homemade quality is well worth the price.
(03/11/09 2:32am)
Giorgio on Pine — a new BYOB spot where Valentino Ristorante once stood at 13th and Pine — invites patrons into a split-level space bounded by rustic, exposed brick walls and filled with warm lighting and the subtle sounds of Italian arias. The restaurant has a casual air, reflected in a simple menu of traditional Italian dishes.
(02/26/09 4:37am)
During a five-hour layover in Lima, I had my first encounter with a chifa — the term for the ubiquitous Chinese restaurants of Peru. While it may seem like a strange concept, Peru boasts some of the best Chinese food outside of China, due to a huge influx of Chinese immigrants and a wide variety of fresh seafood from the country’s coast. Jose Garces — Philadelphia’s rising star chef and owner of Amada, Tinto and Distrito — recently brought the concept of Peruvian-Chinese fusion to the City of Brotherly Love.
(02/05/09 6:07am)
Even with the blistering winter weather beating at the windows, the warm yellow hues inside Rx — located at 45th and Spruce — can brighten up the chilliest day. Last Wednesday, during its annual Green Week, the Penn Environmental Group held a dinner celebrating the restaurant’s commitment to sustainable and local agriculture. In freezing temperatures, Rx still relies solely on the farm-to-table philosophy, basing their ever-changing menu on whatever ingredients are available from the local farms and greenhouses. Greg Salisbury, owner of Rx, communicates with his meat, fish, dairy and vegetable providers nearly every day to ensure that the restaurant receives the freshest in local ingredients. From heirloom tomatoes to kaffir limes, the produce at Rx comes directly from the farmers’ hands. While students dined on a $25 prix fixe menu, including beet salad with baby arugula and gorgonzola cheese, whole roasted Pocono Mountain trout with chickpeas and olives, and Lancaster County heirloom apple cobbler, the farmer who grew the beets, arugula and apples rose to speak.
(01/22/09 4:27am)
Straddling the border between the Penn student realm and far, far away lies El Camino Real, a restaurant celebrating the unique cuisines available on the border between Texas and Mexico. El Camino is the recent incarnation of Owen Kamihira, the man responsible for drawing crowds to Northern Liberties with his Spanish tapas restaurant Bar Ferdinand. Although El Camino is just across the street from its sister spot, the cuisine, décor, and overall ambiance could not be more different.
(10/30/08 5:27am)
What do you get when you cross a rabbit and a pig? A pabbit — the oddly rotund, long-eared mascot for Pub and Kitchen, a new gastropub and ultra-cool hangout spot on 20th and Lombard. This is the latest venture by Jonathan McDonald, the chef behind Snackbar, who has once again filled a much-needed niche in the Philadelphia dining scene. McDonald took his cues from The Spotted Pig, another porcine-inspired gastropub in New York’s West Village, pioneered by Food Network chef and star restaurateur Mario Batali.
(10/23/08 6:27am)
Chef Jose Garces’s most recent incarnation in the Hub building on 40th and Chestnut strays from his more romantic Philadelphia Spanish restaurants — Amada and Tinto — to focus on the color, spice and vibrancy of Mexico’s capital city. While the menu is still tapas style, the food itself varies wildly from Garces’s previous Latin ventures.
(10/16/08 6:57am)
Street: At Penn there has been a lot of buzz about Distrito. Did the proximity to the surrounding college campuses have any impact on the style of your newest restaurant?
(10/02/08 4:00am)
With Rosh Hashanah behind us and only self-imposed starvation and repentance in our future, we can all take advantage of the holiday's ubiquitous leftovers: apples and honey. So gather up your fruits of the season, add in some sugar and spice and create the perfect fall dish to ring in 5769.
(09/18/08 4:00am)
Jamaican Jerk Hut
1436 South Street
(215) 545-8644
(04/17/08 4:00am)
Vintage Wine Bar & Bistro
(04/03/08 4:00am)
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(03/20/08 4:00am)
Stepping into the unofficial home of Penn's (almost) official Cooking Club would make any aspiring student chef feel slightly inadequate. The kitchen in Will Heyer and Jon Jesselson's house is so stocked with appliances and gadgets that you would think they were sponsored by Williams-Sonoma. But in fact, sponsorship is just one of the many ideas the Cooking Club tosses around in their informal meetings. Other aspirations include taking over a dining hall-sized kitchen to perform Penn's very own Iron Chef tournament.
(02/14/08 5:00am)
There's a more serious reason to protest Valentine's Day this year than the conspiracy between the American government and the greeting card-industry (i.e. being single). Conspiracies and kidding aside, there's a dark side to this holiday. Valentine's Day evokes images of arrow-wielding cupids, bright red hearts, happy couples and. child slave labor? Every box of chocolates exchanged by lovers today has a shady history beyond its shiny packaging.
(02/07/08 5:00am)
At the end of the Taste of Philadelphia Food Tour, our guide Carolyn Wyman left us hungry, wide-eyed and smiling. Wyman literally wrote the book (a biography actually) on SPAM and Jello, making her well qualified to answer any of our Philly dining questions. Her tour focuses on the history of foods, ranging from Breyer's Ice Cream to Snapping Turtle Soup, which form a part of Philadelphia's blue collar legacy. "As the tour comes to a close, I won't say bon appetit," she said loudly over the bustling noise of the market, "but I will leave you with this: 'Yo, eat up.'" And we did.
(02/07/08 5:00am)
The rainbow has never been so trendy: we raced for the cure in Victoria's Secret Pink, bought Gap clothing and aspi(red) to fight AIDS in Africa and now it seems that green is sprouting up all over. So, what can you do at Penn and in Philly to truly go green? Street is here to give you the inside scoop on how Philadelphia has become America's new eco-friendly city.
(01/24/08 5:00am)
With Center City Restaurant Week around the corner, suddenly opentable.com doesn't seem so open anymore and power-wielding hostesses scoff at even the most desperate reservation requests: "Monday night, 10:45, for two?" Avoid the masses flocking to Steven Starr's playgrounds for the prix fixe, prix inflated menus.
Instead of spending your Monday night arm-wrestling the couple next to you for table space, sit back at home and check out diningin.com. It's easy to advocate a delivery service that charges only $6.74 to bring downtown food to your "zone," and now that Amada - Jose Garces's famed Tapas restaurant in Old City - is new on the option list, it's definitely worth it. So this restaurant week, stay in bed, click on some Spanish flatbreads (I recommend the pato con datiles, duck confit with date glaze), and wait 45 minutes for a wonderful meal to arrive at your doorstep.
(02/22/07 5:00am)
It's hard to imagine the marriage between frigid Philadelphia and sweltering Caracas, but Sazon Restaurant & Cafe presents just that: a Northern Liberties BYOB serving up homemade Venezuelan cuisine.
(02/01/07 5:00am)
Fisher Fine Arts is like Van Pelt's well-behaved, socially awkward, yet pretty older sister. With beautifully carved red stone and intricate stained glass windows, its architecture puts all other Penn buildings to shame. If you crave that real Ivy League-y, Hogwarts-esque, old school feeling, Fisher is the place to go. In spite of its glowing reputation (it was, after all, used in the Tom Hanks film Philadelphia), inside the library the air is quiet and cold. For people who procrastinates their procrastinating and need constant distraction, Fisher has an eerie silence. When writing about or researching art history however, it is the ideal environment. There is an osmotic quality to the library that allows knowledge of artists ranging from Michelangelo to Warhol to seep into the skin.