Chef Edward Lee
On Tuesday, August 31, Supper will bring Chef Edward Lee of Restaurant 610 Magnolia in Louisville, Kentucky up north to Philly to cook supper. Chef Edward and Supper Chef/Owner Mitch Prensky will cook a collaborative "Southern Hospitality Meal," which will include lots of pork and seasonal veggies. Dinner will cost $38 and be served family style. And you can have seconds! Read on for the menu.
The abalone shumai at South Sea Seafood Village.Photo: J. Barmann/Grub Street
Each week on the Food Chain, we ask a chef to describe a dish he or she recently enjoyed. The chef who prepared the dish responds and then picks his or her own memorable meal. On and on it goes. Last week, Tom Colicchio fell for chef Ting San's sakura-smoked hamachi at Oishii in Boston. What's had you begging for more lately, Ting?
Who: Ting San, chef-owner of Oishii
What: Abalone shumai
Where: South Sea Seafood Village, San Francisco
Looking for food TV fame and fortune? The Food Network wants you, "chefs, line cooks, home cooks, caterers and culinary enthusiasts," with "personality that pops." On season 7 of The Next Food Network Star, contestants will compete for their own slot on TV. Are you the next Guy Fieri? Be at The Loews on Aug. 31 and apply here. [Insider]
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Every year since 1944, residents of Buñel, Spain spend the last Wednesday in August throwing hundreds of thousands of tomatoes at each other in honor of Buñel’s patron saints, San Luis Bertràn and Mare de Dèu dels Desemparats.Today through next Wednesday, Chef Macgregor Mann will serve a $55 four-course menu at Amada in honor of La Tomatina Festival. Check out the tomato-exalting dishes.
The sleek sushi spot Fat Salmon, on Walnut Street near Washington Square, will serve sake, wine and beer when it gets its liquor license at the end of this month. "Guests love the BYO thing," says Sarah McKean, a server and hostess at Fat Salmon. "But some people come expecting that we have alcohol." She thinks selling booze will up the check average and make the tempura and nigiri-loving crowds happy. The restaurant hasn't yet designated a space for the bar--"maybe in the back near the kitchen." By September, there will be sake and other "good things to drink."
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Much to many a carnivore’s consternation, unrestrained vegetable-eating is on the rise, and to stay on top of the trend, Eataly has seen fit to put a full-time vegetable butcher on the books. That’s right. A vegetable butcher. And not just your average, run-of-the-mill vegetable butcher, but a vegetable butcher who went to Harvard, attended the Culinary Institute of America, and who also happens to be the brilliant installation artist Jennifer Rubell. It was during a midnight conversation at Del Posto, says Rubell, that she and her friend Mario Batali brainstormed the idea. (Who knows? Maybe they had had a little wine.) “You know Mario,” she says. “No matter how late at night you have a conversation with him, it’s not like he forgets, and that’s how I became the vegetable butcher.”
Menton, The Purple Pig, Marea, Hatfield's, and Frances are all present and accounted for on Bon Appétit's annual list of the ten best new restaurants in America. Trend alert: three two of the ten restaurants (Frances, Fort Worth's Ellerbe Fine Foods, and and Atlanta's Miller Union) are Southern (note: despite the fact that Bon Appétit only mentioned Southern dishes, Frances is not actually Southern), and another three (Menton, Marea, and Seattle's Anchovies & Olives) are seafood-focus. Bonus for Bostonians: in addition to praising Menton, the magazine's September issue features the burger from Craigie On Main on the cover.
The 10 Best New Restaurants in America [Bon Appetit]
Center City: The former Doc Watson's, the landmark on 11th Street near Jefferson, will reopen as Blue Bear Tavern at the end of the year. [The Insider]
South Philly: Fond introduces its late summer menu: octopus stew with preserved lemon and malted milk chocolate ice cream are among the new offerings. [Meal Ticket]
South Philly: Everything is recycled and eco-friendly at Green Eggs Cafe, and french toast is stuffed with peanut butter. [NBC Philadelphia]
Center City: Tweed serves satisfying local food, like a barbecue pork chop. [Foodbooz]
"You know, Eric Ripert just started tweeting. Now, he's James Bond suave, with an olive oil-thick French accent, probably one of the world's most respected chefs. But his tweets read like a 12-year-old girl's writing them!" — Chron writer Paolo Lucchesi at last Friday's S.F. Chefs seminar on the future of food media. [Bay Area Bites, Earlier]
These aren't among the best?Photo: Courtesy Artisan Books; Wiley
Richard Olney's The French Menu Cookbook is the world's greatest cookbook, declares a crack team including Jay Rayner and Heat author Bill Buford. It tops a list of the Guardian's 50 best cookbooks of all time, a compilation that caught our attention as much for whom it excludes as whom it honors. The roundup pays proper homage to some heavy hitters: The top ten includes Elizabeth David's undeniably marvelous French Provincial Cooking and Simon Hopkinson's Roast Chicken and Other Stories, Julia Child clocks in at 21, and MFK Fisher holds steady at 47. But where is Thomas Keller? And for that matter, Mark Bittman?
“Never disappoints!”
Seriously, the best paninis and sandwiches. It is take out only and everything is made fresh, so it takes a little while, but it will not disappoint!
“Great trendy restaurant”
The first thing you notice while walking in is the small but comfortable dining area, great ambience. The service is great, the menu has interesting items, the food presentation and taste is excellent. BYOB, so bring a nice bottle of wine!
“Dont waste your time”
The salad was not good. The Chicken Parm came out burnt and the Chicken Marsala tasted like a bottle of salt. Yuck! The $10 Calamari was about 5 pieces. Dont waste your time or money