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I don't think there's a bakery a few doors north of Ho Sai Gai except if you were to turn onto Race. There is a KC's Pastries a few doors south.

Cool. Now I just need to badger the Organ Meat Society into having regular dinners.

Hmm. Methinks Sietsama should be solicited to participate in Offal Tour II: the Return of the Organ.

This approach is entirely the best way to handle any extended drinking period. I usually alternate my drinks. Depending on what I am drinking, I may go with one non-alcoholic drink for every two. If you want to taste something other than water in between, juices and such are fine. My favorite is virgin madras: cranberry and orange juices topped with a splash of ginger ale or club soda. That said, nothing will be quite as good as water at hydrating your system.

Yea, Koffmeyer's was good.

I'm a part-time employee of a company distributing Starbucks Liqueur (among other spirits). One of the recipes they push, my favorite one in fact, is of a similar flavor profile to the White Russian. 1/2 Starbucks, 1/4 vodka, 1/4 chocolate milk For a slight twist, use your favorite flavored vodka and it'll linger with that flavor towards the end.

You can use glassware for that many people, assuming you have tons of hired staff. Since you don't, use plastic. Normally, the ratio is 1 bartender per 100 people. For 350, I'd go with 4. Since your bartenders are actually volunteers and not hired, I agree with the idea to double that count and target 8 people. Two people per double bar. Even better, if you can get more volunteers, put each bartender on for only an hour. That way you'll get less whining out of them. In other words, target number of volunteers = 4 bartenders per hour X total hours of party time Chilling that much wine and beer isn't a real problem. Buy tubs from Walmart @ $4-6 per for 10 or so(depending on size) and ice the bottles in them. 750ml and 1.5 L of wine should only need half an hour to be chilled when you're putting it in direct contact with ice. 12 oz bottles of beer, 15 minutes will do. Ice half your white wine supply initially, and have someone restock later (if you have that second shift, they should start 15 miinutes before the first shift leaves so they can do this.) Just keep it all out of sunlight and in a relatively cool place before you use it.

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I've always liked Il Cantuccio, although I've heard mixed reviews in the 3-6 years since I've been there. North 3rd and Abbaye are Standard Tap type places that are a lot less popular, perfect for me usually. All three of those are on 3rd between Fairmount and Poplar. IIRC, Aden on 2nd just below Fairmount has always been well-liked with little written about it. I can't really say much about Tabula Rosa and Azure, within spitting distance from the Tap (across the street and 2 doors down, respectively) but they're there. Up at 3rd and Girard you have El Viejo San Juan which was well-liked a few years ago with not much commentary since then.

Sorry, wrong emphasis. I was wondering about the usage of Jerry Stiller in particular.

I'm just wondering about this particular usage. Please enlighten me.

Anyone know its hours?

They're renovating a building for a new location around the corner, in the old Express store on Chestnut. I'm reasonably certain it'll be more than twice as large, and I wouldn't doubt 3+ times as large.

That's the one on Passyunk, (northeast of Royal Tavern, I think)?

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I remember the place by its more popular name, "The Happy Pepsi Sign." It was fun. ← Y'know, I probably know more about Chinatown than anyone here, having grown up in it and still being continually involved in some fashion or another, and yet until Holly mentioned the Pepsi sign, I didn't know what you were talking about there.

I second Black Sheep. Next also has an interesting brunch menu. Check it out on their site. http://www.nextbyob.com/flashIndex.cfm

For those, substitute ginger ale or club soda for the liquor. Virgin Madras has been my standard nonalcoholic drink for a while.

Didn't Carmine's recently move/expand/have something significant happen?

It's been there for years? I just noticed it last year.

Has anyone tried the Carribean place on South btwn 11th and 12th?

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Friends of mine swear by one on Adams at Tabor, right off the Boulevard. (not Sam Won) I've only been there once, but I liked it enough that time. Others have told me they don't like it.

Similarly, most Chinese restaurants use circular tables, symbolizing continuity.

I doubt there's anyone from Shanghai involved with Chinatown Cafe, but I suppose it's possible. The proprietor is Cary Chin, who was running Joe's Peking Duck House in Chinatown for a few years, around 2002. That said, I have no clue where it really is relative to its area.