Archive for March 2016

If Only Life Was All Cheese & Biscuits: Lunch at Bourbon and Branch

About 2 years ago, Bourbon and Branch opened in Northern Liberties with live music most evenings upstairs and a Southern influenced menu downstairs. I was invited to check out their recently updated menu.

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Lunch Links ( The “Make a Meatball Checklist” Edition)

  • Banh Mi and Bottles to open on South St in May [Eater]
  • This meatball roundup is quite comprehensive [Foobooz]
  • Wishbone is opening another location on 13th St [The Insider]

Korean House Report: Korean Noodle House vs Every Day Good House (plus bonus Korean Spa report)

There is nothing like an excursion to Olney and Elkins Park for some legit Korean food.  Today, I present you with two Korean dining reports plus a bonus report about the nearby Korean spa. It’s a tale of noodles and nudity.

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Meals To Check Out By the Philly Flower Show

To all you Flower Show attendees this week, make sure to energize in between sniffing blooms with a great meal! And there are many of those to be found within a few blocks of the Show. Here is a list to start you off:

Reading Terminal

Chinatown

Lunch Links (The “33 Taco” Editon)

  • Put your stomach to the test with this eating challenges around the city [Thrillist]
  • The “original” Dim Sum Garden is expanding and will be called Tom’s Dim Sum [The Insider]
  • A Jewish bakery is opening on East Passyunk [Passyunk Post]


Other Things I Ate This Week: Dumpling Making with Han, Cuban Happy Hour, Average Grilled Cheese

*new weekly feature for 2016: brief photo recaps + not always lunch

This week started off with a super random and fun evening- making dumplings with Han of Han Dynasty. I finally learned how to pleat!

I also tried happy hour at Alma de Cuba for the first time. It’s super dark in there, so no pictures. But I liked the classic mojito, the strange cuban sandwich on a stick, spinach empanadas, and alfajores- all reasonably priced.

I had a grilled cheese craving and grabbed a sandwich from Milkhouse on 19th Street. Totally fine but not at all worth the price. I should have gone to Meltcraft around the corner, right?

Milkhouse, 37 S 19th St, 267 639-4286

A Tied Together Mix and Match Lunch at Double Knot

Thanks to Double Knot for inviting me to try the new lunch menu! 

I am normally exponentially more excited to try the food of a new restaurant than I am to see the designed space. But for Double Knot, Michael Schulson’s latest addition to 13th Street (with a passageway in to Sampan), I was really excited about both. Teaser pictures and the multi uses of the bi level space, complete with subterranean sushi bar and robatayaki grill, had me needing to see it for myself.  (Sidenote: how did I not know this spot was formerly a gay “movie” house?)

Here is the deal, in the morning, as early as 7am, you can enjoy coffee and pastries at the bar or 2 tops, along side the carefully curated shelves of knick knacks and wooden accents. Happy Hour begins at that same space at 4pm with just a sample of the food offered downstairs. After 5pm, you can head down the stairs for a loooong menu of skewers and sushi. But for lunch (and that’s 10pm-3pm), the menu is pleasantly streamlined: pick a protein (steak, shrimp, pork, chicken, tofu, meatball) and what form you would like it in (salad, banh mi, rice, noodles) in exchange for $7.

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