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I think bigjas, myself, and probably a few others here prefer Mama's over Philly F, but the latter is open later for dinner and such.

Check out roadfood.com, although it's not really geared towards relaxed eating places.

Ditto. But it might be the same friend.

Damn and here I am thinking I had this great discovery. I am so out of the loop . ← I'm wondering how long the original has been there? I remember it around 1994 and even then, you could tell it had probably been there for at least a decade.

I just looked through the actual menu for the first time, and noticed Cereality. I wonder how they made it there.

Careful with that. You don't want to let that push you into opening in January and its slow cashflow period, and it'd probably be better for you to start the busy December business with kinks worked out. Both options are bad for you, but the former is worse.

Not sure where I'll be, but I'll be at one of those spots.

Actually, it sounds intriguing to me, as long as the stix & fingers aren't overly fried, but they probably are. And if I want a heart attack, who are you to prevent me from doing whatever I can to get one?

Whatchu talkin' bout, Willis? I still believe.

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Maybe the category should be Eats that are Cheaper than they Should Be or Food that is Cheaper than its Comparable Quality Level but that's not as good a sound bite as Cheap Eats.

Maybe the category should be Eats that are Cheaper than they Should Be or Food that is Cheaper than its Comparable Quality Level but that just doesn't sound as good as Cheap Eats.

Note to Holly: Three ears is probably a good minimum for some, a maximum for others. It depends on the individual's internal digestive tract. I suspect your own internals to be fairly tolerant of all manner of digestibles, given your hot dog, barbeque, and other self-designed smorgasbords. :-P

I do remember seeing they that space was being prepared for a restaurant a relatively long time ago, probably before Washington Square opened.

In one of the buildings being converted to condos on North Broad. Lofts at 640, I think.

I don't believe there are spaces that eat restaurants. I do believe that there are too many unprepared restauranteurs that try their hand at doing a restaurant and subsequently realize their errors. What was that space before Pasta Blitz?

There was a party introducing Leblon for the restaurant Alma de Cuba's 5-year anniversary yesterday in Philadelphia. I didn't make it, so I did'n't get to try it, but Southern is the regional distributor for a lot of good brands. I hope it does well.

True dat. You're handling it like a trooper, though.

Wait, it's not because you're Pigpen?

Great PR for them, and a pretty good brand extension. Who puts out that newsletter?

If I recall what a certain chef told me correctly, Radicchio is owned by the owners of Laceno in Voorhees.

Even standard Chinese banquet cuisine wouldn't be especially upper level, although it's definitely more expensive, richer, etc. than your everyday Chinese food. I'm not aware of what I would consider upper level Chinese food available anywhere in the US on a daily basis. I've only had it once, and that was only because we were business partners of the chef, and therefore invited to his birthday party that year when he really went all-out.

Ditto, on both splitting CC and South Philly as the king of pizza joints.

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That we have better cheesesteaks is without question. I've seen random pizza joints that have sausage rolls all over the area. The only one that I can specifically remember having and liking it was People's Pizza on Route 38 at Chapel Ave in Cherry Hill, and that was probably more than a decade ago. The place is still there, but I don't know what the quality level is like.