Archive for March 2010

60% at S&H Kebab House: Today's offer on Groupon is a $25 gift certificate for $10 to S&H Kebab House, you could get a lot of manti with that.

Pearl’s Oyster Bar’s Fish Sandwich Lunch Special

For about a year now, several Reading Terminal purveyors have offered a $7 lunch special. Pearl’s Oyster Bar is located at the entrance of Reading Terminal with several counters for seating and a menu full of fried and raw seafood. Their lunch special consists of a soda, your choice of Manhattan or New England clam chowder, and a fried cod sandwich.

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Lunch Links (The “Figgy,Porky Pizza” Edition)

Photo Courtesy of Metropolitan Bakery via Meal Ticket

  • Manhattan’s famous H&H bagels coming to all Capogiro locations! [Grubstreet]
  • Reading Terminal had its busiest year of all time, serving over 5 million visitors in ’09 [Phoodie]
  • This spring an Indian Bistro is opening in Washington Sq West  [Foobooz]
  • Metropolitan Bakery’s new under $5 pizzas look like a nice lunch, especially the fig, prosciutto and candied pecans pizza [Meal Ticket]
  • Midtown Lunch: Downtown tries out Manhattan’s version of the Philly cheesesteak [ML Downtown]

A Look at Sampan’s Sammies: Unbreaded breaks down the new banh mi on Sampan's lunch menu (with pictures included), calling the steak version "exquisite".

Pho However You Like It at Pho Ha

Pho Ha is one of the many traditional Vietnamese noodle soup (pho) joints located in the shopping plazas of  Washington Ave. What I like about Pho Ha is that the menu is user friendly and each ingredient can be customized to your preference. Ha’s menu clearly lists the meat components in their pho from least to most scary. The “small” pho starts at a mere $5.60 and is HUGE. Since these restaurants deal with such high volume of similar pho orders, they are prepared to get it to the table incredibly fast.

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Do the Torta Flip at Tacos Don Memo

My last University City taco trip at Coup de Taco was a great success, so I headed back to that area for more. An ML Philly reader praised Taco Don Memo as the best Mexican food around. Unlike Coup de Taco, Tacos Don Memo’s fare is all traditional, no Thai or Indian flavors here. The small truck serves only 4 dishes:  burritos ($6), tacos ($2), tortas($6), and tostadas ($3).

I tried the steak torta and each of the 4 taco options- steak, chicken, carnitas (roasted pork), and al pastor (pork with pineapples).  Don Memo’s Mexican food made me feel a lot less jealous about Zach’s taco fest in L.A.

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Free Chick-fil-A for a Year for Early Customers: Thrillist reports that tomorrow  the first 100 people at the new Port Richmond (2301 E Butler St) Chick-fil-A will get a free chicken sandwich, waffle fries, and a drink every week for a year. Check out the  Chick-fil-A website for the details about the intense raffle system. Doors open at 6am.