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way late to this but:
1. tiffin has been slipping majorly. i don't bother anymore.
2. ekta is significantly better; whether or not you should bother is up to you. they still do cvery good stuff though.
3. minar palace came back in full force as exactly what it was: inexpensive (though not as cheap as it was) curry house. it's a different kind of thing than the other two.
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i don't know if they still carry it, but downtown cheese in the terminal used to sell bomba rice.
both they and dibrunos carry a couple varieties of chorizo from palacios. dibrunos also has a couple of more handmade expensive offerings, but for the basics, those are pretty much the sources in town that i know of.
edit: i should mention it's about $10 for a loop of the palacios chorizo. about the same price as you'll pay from anywhere online.
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The inimitable Hawk Krall gives his list of the top 10 hoagies to try in Philadelphia. Definitely an interesting list; I've been to five of the places, and look forward to trying out the others...
they followed it up with cheesesteaks and then a kind of catch-all roast pork, cutlets, meatballs, etc. article. Really enjoyable series.
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Has anyone been back here since the chef bailed for Cantina? Any thoughts?
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well, like $6 or $8 a lb instead of $20 -- while granted you're buying a whole fish vs. filets, the perception is still that it's cheaper, you have to admit.
and no, i don't buy bluefish, generally. but it's there and it's cheap.
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A little bit more on Otolith vs. John Yi at the RTM.
thanks bob! i guess i WAS misreading their price list or something. i'll look more closely next time. maybe i also got that impression because they don't stock the cheap junk fish i often buy -- sea bass, sardines, mackerel, bluefish and the like. so i didn't have the $4.99/lb fish right next to the $22 stuff to distract me.
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Like Otolith Sustainable Seafood, the peripatetic Alaskan seafood purveyor. Their blast-frozen frozen vacuum-packed seafood is usually no more expensive or within a couple of dollars per pound of the price you'd pay at retail fish stores. And if you buy prawns, rockfish, pacific cod, or sablefish (a.k.a. black cod) from Otolith, you'll be making your purchase from the same people who caught it: Amanda Bossard, Otolith's owner, and her husband, Murat Aritan, who fish Alaskan waters for those species on their 65-foot long-liner. The other fish they sell, primarily salmon and halibut, are purchased from other harvesters who "share our commitment to sustainability," says Bossard
wait am i missing something? i've wanted to buy from otolith ever since i heard of them, at least a couple of years now. but when i go down there (or over at almanac market in northern libs) and look at their prices i'm stunned by them. am i misreading something and their stuff isn't prohibitively expensive?
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looks like tatsoi to me.
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if you want a good cheesesteak but still want the atmosphere, walk two blocks over to cosmi's deli at 8th & dickinson, then take your steak over to the pats/genos corner and hang around while you eat it.
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Is that peanut butter ripple chocolate ice cream with a peanut butter ripple? Their website doesn't even list it as a flavor. I'd like to try making it myself.
no, it's vanilla. but the key thing is huge slabs of salty peanut butter going through it. so good.
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goodnoe's still exists, but is no longer in the format it used to be -- it is now a small ice cream shop on sycamore st.
Hey! thats good news about them still open in some way. I thought they had closed up for good and gone away completely. but sadly... that old place they had was the BEST! There was nothing else like it around.
good to know you can at least still get their ice cream. I LOVED the peanut butter ripple !
i can assure you that the peanut butter ripple (aka the best ice cream ever) is still there, and still awesome.
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goodnoe's still exists, but is no longer in the format it used to be -- it is now a small ice cream shop on sycamore st.
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oyster house should be ashamed to participate in beer week considering their beer pricing.
the thing is, it's weird, considering that their wine pricing is pretty much in line with everywhere else, and their cocktails are too.
but their beer prices run $1-2 more than what everywhere else charges for a pint, for a glass that sure doesn't seem like a pint -- if it is, then it's slightly less egregious, but still, EIGHT DOLLARS for a glass of dogfish head 60 minute IPA*? i pay less at citizens bank park.
i will, of course, still frequent the place, since there are so many other things i like about it, but will not be buying beer there. (edit: which is a shame, because i am of the opinion that some beers go fantastically with oysters)
come on now, oyster house. it's beer. we can go on and on about quality and selection and this and that, but in the end there's no excuse for that kinda gouging.
*don't go by the online menu; i was there tonight and this was the price
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i like villa di roma, and also criniti's
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they have it at moe's.
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they closed bc the building was unstable. they're moving somewhere nearby -- michael klein wrote about it so if you search the inquirer or foobooz or mealticket or something you should be able to find the info.
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i went after the flower show a couple of weeks ago. the cooking is indeed bar food with david ansill's twist. what can you say, the guy has a pretty recognizable style of cooking, and is good at translating it to different contexts.
the burger is very good -- although what exactly you're supposed to do with the bone marrow is a little confusing, because there's no other bread to put it on or anything. i ended up just smearing it on my burger to make it even fattier, because why not.
the fries are pretty good, although unlike apparently everyone else in the world i'm not a huge fan of truffle everything. the burgers come with plenty of fries, so unless you really love them don't get a separate order.
the lamb empanadas are as laban described.
the korean tacos are good, but kinda small for $11.
fried cauliflower allows you to pretend to be healthy (hey, it's cauliflower!) while in reality allowing you to eat fried deliciousness.
grilled romaine is .... i always want it to be more interesting than it is, and i've had it a couple of places. this is the same thing he had at ansill, and i always want it to taste like more of what it is. more grill flavor, more anchovy in the dressing, more everything. i think that's why i've ordered it a few times.
the beer list is now pretty good, as you can see from the menu they have online, and the one cocktail we had off the new menu (the dr. strangelove) was very good and not overly sweet, although i didn't taste the vanilla bean.
the space is still pretty nice -- but it always was; that wasn't the problem before. and although we were there for an early dinner, it still had plenty of curved-brim-baseball-hat-wearing dudes yelling YEAH BRO at each other every time whatever hockey team they were rooting for scored.
the only issue we had was that we ended up waiting like 25+ minutes for our food after we ordered. i mean it was a long time, and the place wasn't very full, and i saw david ansill wandering through the dining room on his cell phone a couple of times while we were waiting. however, slow service was never a problem i had at my numerous visits to ansill (quite the opposite actually--sometimes i felt food came out sooner than i wanted it to), so i assume he'll iron that out.
either way, the place is now a viable bar dinner option -- actually i'll go further and say for me, a desirable one. if they introduce the aforementioned 'foodie' nights, i'll probably be there, despite the use of a term i hate.
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Oh right, Yann. I only ate there one time, but I remember their lobster bisque as being about the best I've had.
Man, I could go for a bowl of lobster bisque right now.
ok it wouldn't solve your immediate craving, but if you want to make some, lobsters are still cheap -- $6.99/lb for chicks at the asian supermarket on 4th & spring garden
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oh right, it was yann i was thinking of
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agree with north 3rd. consistently good food, very nice beer list.
good god, looking at this list, this town is crazy full of great places to eat and get good beer.
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also johnny brenda's in fishtown. http://www.johnnybrendas.com
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i totally remember that place, and can't think of the name either. i got a lobster salad in a brioche there once that i still remember to this day.
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awesome bacalhau croquettes at oyster house last night. that is all.
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Agreed. Nice whiskey selection too.