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, [...]
Read more»April 5, 2013
This Saturday, Philadelphia welcomes what promises to be a super beer garden to Chestnut Street. Brand new Brü Craft & Wurst celebrates its recent opening in grand fashion with a daylong bash tomorrow from 2 p.m. until 2 a.m. All are welcome to the opening event, and with mild temps and sunshine in tomorrow’s weather [...]
Read more»April 5, 2013
Graduate Hospital is a great neighborhood for walking. It’s also a great neighborhood for awesome bars. So why not combine those two great characteristics into a single great event? Enter Sprung, a springtime pub crawl on Saturday, April 27 brought to you by the good people from the South Street West Business Association. A $5 [...]
Read more»April 4, 2013
The enigmatic proprietor of Hop Sing Laundromat, Lêe, would have you think his Chinatown cocktail lounge is just a simple bar. Despite his claims, those who pass through the unmarked entry and into the dimly lit den know differently. The laundry list of inventive concoctions are developed and mixed with almost-obsessive attention to detail, and [...]
Read more»April 3, 2013
The highly anticipated Sunday, April 7 premiere of AMC’s sixth season of Mad Men has us jonesing for men in crisp suits and ladies in curve-hugging pencil skirts. The timing is perfect for The Mütter Museum to host a Sixties-themed soiree for this year’s Mütter Ball, Saturday, April 6. The Mad Men and medicine-themed costume [...]
Read more»April 2, 2013
Mark your calendars, American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition at the National Constitution Center comes to a close on Sunday, April 28. The museum hosts its final affair in its American Spirits event series this Thursday night from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. celebrating the implementation of the Beer Act of 1933, which legalized [...]
Read more»March 28, 2013
East Passyunk’s Flavors of the Avenue annual event is back and will host more restaurants and bars than ever. This year, 25 of the avenue’s restaurants are participating. April showers or not, this event will go on thanks to the overhead tent between Morris and Dickinson streets on East Passyunk Avenue. The tent will enclose [...]
Read more»March 27, 2013
Returning for another round of delicious food-and-brew pairing techniques, Brewery Ommegang’s Philly Hop Chef places six local culinary stars in competition, Tuesday, April 23 at Union Transfer. In an effort to promote Ommegang’s Great Beer Deserves Great Food program, a collection of dishes will be assembled with the Coopertown brewery’s suds and sampled during the [...]
Read more»March 25, 2013
Served straight up, on the rocks or in a handsome cocktail, there’s not much that wets the whistle quite like bourbon. Which is why the ever-alluring bar The Trestle Inn holds so much appeal. The Callowhill neighborhood lounge boasts a long list of bourbon, more than 60 in all. This week, there’s even more reason [...]
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