Midtown Lunch

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• Mad drama with the 2 Dim Sum Garden locations [The Insider]
• Foobooz is tackling the thankless task of in depth cheesesteak comparisons and comes out with a clear winner [Foobooz]
• I don’t super love Ethiopian food, but Penn Apetit seemed to have a good meal at Ethio Cafe [Penn Appetit]
• Top Philly Chef’s picked their favorite under the radar spots to eat, like Meltkraft and Pho Xe Lua [firstwefeast]

Photo courtesy of Zagat

• New menu items around town: bossam banh mi at Rotissear [Foobooz],
• pulled pork waffles at Chhaya Cafe [Phoodie],
• housemade sausage at Devil’s Den [Foobooz],
• bacon wrapped meatloaf at The Abbaya [The Insider],
• and cheesburger egg rolls at Spot Burger [Zagat]

• Zagat has the scoop on the Cheese E. Wagon truck [Zagat]
• GQ did a piece on the best cheesesteaks in Philly, whats a better read though, are the 100+ comments regarding his choices on The Insider 
• This week in Italian Hoagies, 22nd and Philly approved of Paesano’s Daddywad, while Philly Phoodie did not love The Corner Foodery’s Godfather 
• Lamb BBQ may be coming to Zagar’s South Philly warehouse. If you like this idea (and you should), go to the 1/22 zoning meeting [Passyunk Post] 

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• A “Cajun Asian” restaurant is opening in the Piazza   [Eater]
• A list of the most decadent local foods of 2013 includes more than one plate from PYT, obviously  [Thrillist]
• While I was enjoying fried chicken this week from Resurrection,  the Nashville style hot chicken at Fat Ham was getting some attention [Foobooz]
• You can vote on Philly’s best cheesesteak [Zagat]

• Eater is doing a Philly restaurant “year in review” this week, and asking food friends to help. You can read, for example, my recommendation for best newcomer [Eater]
• Zagat has the winter lunch truck schedule for The Porch [Zagat]
• A Mayan style restaurant is coming to Bella Vista [The Insider]
• Here is the menu of the new East Passyunk vegan commissary [Foobooz]

• Feeling lazy? This is a slideshow of foods on skewers in Philly [Zagat]
• Garces’ Rosa Blanca opens Monday, serving food all day [The Insider]
• A round up of best food moments in movie history [Deadspin]
• PYT now has a burger with frozen and fried PBR on it… I’d just rather have a nicer beer on the side [GrubStreet]