April 30, 2013
Graduate Hospital is keeping the fun going. After this past Saturday’s super popular and extremely successful Sprung Bar Crawl through the neighborhood, South Street West will once again be hosting a fun neighborhood event this coming Saturday, May 4. Plazapalooza hits Grays Ferry Triangle — located at 23rd and South Streets — this Saturday from [...]
Read more»April 29, 2013
Chef Hiroyuki “Zama” Tanaka is a big fan of collaborations. The chef/owner of Rittenhouse Square’s superb sushi spot Zama regularly teams up with fellow Philly chefs to devise namesake dishes like the Jose Garces Chirashi, with scallops, baby Spanish octopus and head-on Madagascar shrimp, and the Vetri Roll, a crunchy eel roll with scallions and [...]
Read more»April 29, 2013
Practice your best “gracias!” and get ready for this year’s 13th Street Cinco de Mayo block party. On Sunday, May 5 from noon to 9 p.m., El Vez is set to convert the block of 13th and Sansom streets in to an merry outdoor fiesta. The smells and tastes of Mexico will fill 13th Street [...]
Read more»April 25, 2013
This Saturday is filled with sensational spring festivals, but there’s always room for a cocktail or two. Just a little south of Center City, Graduate Hospital bars and restaurants are putting on their drinking caps for a daylong bar crawl. Ten of the area’s most popular bars, like Grace Tavern, Bob and Barbara’s, Pub and [...]
Read more»April 24, 2013
Midtown Village is about to welcome another cool (and bound to be delicious) restaurant to the neighborhood. Pennsylvania 6 (PE6) is named for the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City, one of the town’s trendiest spots in the years following prohibition. The restaurant takes its design cues from the historic hotel. The walls are decorated [...]
Read more»April 22, 2013
Home to dozens of craft breweries and named “the best beer-drinking city in America” by Esquire magazine, Philadelphia reigns as a brilliant beer town. Once a year, though, Philly Beer Week amplifies this city’s beer-fueled greatness with hundreds of festivals, dinners, pub crawls, tastings and brewer events at restaurants and other locations throughout Greater Philadelphia. [...]
Read more»April 16, 2013
The Four Seasons Hotel and Dock Street Brewery are teaming up to present Beer Four All Seasons, a collaborative effort that is now in its second year. The collaboration brings four seasonal Dock Street brews exclusively to Philadelphia’s Four Seasons Hotel. Dock Street Brewery is staying true to their tasty brews at their first launch [...]
Read more»April 16, 2013
South Street is going to be even more abuzz than normal on Saturday, May 4. As part of South Street’s Spring Festival, Brauhaus Schmitz celebrates spring in the way it knows best — with an abundance of German beer and food. From noon to 8 p.m., the German beer hall and restaurant offers indoor and [...]
Read more»April 15, 2013
East Passyunk Avenue is thrilled to have been named one of the 10 Best Foodie Streets in America by Food & Wine Magazine this May and they’re showing it. This Saturday, the Avenue celebrated with its biggest Second Saturday ever. And now the Avenue is celebrating with a special neighborhood-wide happy hour on April 17 [...]
Read more»April 9, 2013
In honor of the wonderful warm weather, we’ve put together a special edition of Tonight Picks to get you outside and into the balmy breezes. Stop what you’re doing and head for the nearest door, Philadelphia, it’s time to get outside and take in this springtime weather. • Dine Alfresco: Whether you’re grabbing a bite, [...]
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