Reminder: Night Market Tonight: Don't forget, tonight is the 2nd Philly Night Market, with local food and drink available to purchase and general good spirits to soak in. I will be around helping to sell tickets for the Philly Vendy Awards. Come stop by and say hi!
Posted at 10:56 am, June 9th, 2011 | 0 Comments
While walking in University City I passed by the International Foods and Spices Grocery Store and hoped I could stock up on some fun grocery items. The store mainly specializes in Indian and Pakistani food products (canned, frozen, dried, etc). I ended up leaving with 4 bags of groceries and lunch.
Posted at 8:37 am, June 9th, 2011 under Indian, University City.
I ate an insane amount of meat on Monday. It is important to have balance in life, so the Basic Vegetarian Snack Bar in Reading Terminal seemed like the appropriate place to detox (at least for one meal). It is a pretty popular stand in RT, and gets pretty busy during lunch time but the staff is efficient.
Since I generally like the concept of burgers or sandwiches topped with random things, I zoomed in on the “burger” topped with “chicken” salad.
Posted at 12:51 pm, June 8th, 2011 under Reading Terminal, vegetarian.
As is customary at Philly Lunch, every Tuesday we turn over the site to a different lunch’er for his or her recommendations for the best lunch in Philadelphia. This week, it’s Tor, our winner of the Philly Cheese Experiment tickets, who had a great time at the event this Sunday (as did I).
Name: Tor
Age: 34
Occupation: Urban Planner
Where in Philly do you Work?: Washington West
Favorite Kind of Food: any food with mango, plantain, and avocado
Least Favorite Kind of Food: cauliflower and tripe
Favorite Place(s) to Eat Lunch in Philly: My absolute favorite sandwich in Center City is Lemongrass Tofu Banh Mi at QT Sandwich (48 North 10th Street). Other lunch spots that I look forward to are: Falafel at Hamifgash (811 Sansom Street) Chili Monk Fish and Thousand Layer Bread at Rangoon (112 N. 9th Street) Shrimp Poboy and Boudin Balls at the Kyber (56 S 2nd Street) Roasted veggie pizza at Fork, etc (306 Market Street) Eggplant Parm at Shank’s (120 S 15th Street) Classic Burger at 500 Degrees (1500 block of Sansom Street) Also, I recently had a chance to have an excellent Channa & Potato Roti at Brown Sugar (219 S 52nd Street) and they also have really good patties and doubles.
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Posted at 8:11 am, June 7th, 2011 under PROFILE: Philly Lunch'er.
When Drew Lazor reported that a South Philly grocery store was serving Nicaraguan food I was immediately excited, having spent some time there 2 years ago. How I forgot that it existed for so many months is very upsetting, shame on me. But somehow it popped in to my head and I found myself heading to the back of El Gallo Pinto to place my order.
After facing blank stares when trying to order vigaron, a typical Nicaraguan dish, I found out that the original Nicaraguan owner sold the business a few month ago to people who are from Mexico. So now the menu has been narrowed, with less popular Nicaraguan dishes being ousted and Mexican food added. This barely posed a problem and I was able to order a ridiculous amount of Mexican and Nicaraguan food.
Posted at 8:30 am, June 6th, 2011 under Central American.
Posted at 7:51 am, June 3rd, 2011 under Lunch Links.
Sansom Kebob House has been on my list of places to dine for a while now. The sun was unforgiving and I needed somewhere to sit down and escape. Too hot for outdoor seating, there was no reason not to head down to Sansom Street’s subterranean Afghani restaurant. Maybe Afghani food is not the first thing that comes to mind to refresh you on a hot day, but my yogurt topped appetizer was just the right start.
Posted at 8:15 am, June 2nd, 2011 under MIddle Eastern.
