October 1, 2012
The super popular fried chicken and donuts shop Federal Donuts, co-owned by Michael Solomonov, restaurateur Steven Cook, coffee aficionados Thomas Henneman and Bob Logue and food-and-drink expert Felicia D’Ambrosio, is expanding to Center City. This Wednesday, October 3 at 7 a.m., Federal Donuts will open its second location at 1632 Sansom Street. We. Cannot. Wait. [...]
Read more»July 16, 2012
Chef Mitch Prensky of Supper, which has been receiving a lot of national press recently (last month’s 50 Shades of Grey dinner was mentioned on Perez Hilton, and they nabbed an appearance on Food & Wine Magazine’s list of the Best Fried Chicken in the U.S.), is launching a new dinner series, Fried Chicken Tuesdays, [...]
Read more»June 12, 2012
The next Night Market is quickly approaching — it’s coming to Washington Avenue and the Italian Market on Thursday, June 28. And we have some pretty cool news to announce about it. Quest Loves Food will be headlining the VIP Night Market Experience. (Quest Loves Food is the food venture from Questlove, drummer extraordinaire for [...]
Read more»April 9, 2012
So you remember that Questlove of The Roots makes fried chicken now? It’s good. Bon Appétit included it on the magazine’s list of the “25 Things to Eat, Drink and Cook in 2012.” Well, Questlove knows David Chang, the chef behind New York’s Momofuku restaurants, who also happens to make a pretty legendary fried chicken. [...]
Read more»April 5, 2012
That twice-fried, sticky-sweet Korean fried chicken goodness is coming back to Meritage on Thursdays, starting tonight. Chef Anne Coll will be serving her “high class” K.F.C. (Korean Fried Chicken) alongside $5 cans of Sapporo and Korean Short Rib Tacos every Thursday evening. The free-range fried chicken, which is marinated in sesame, garlic, ginger and onion [...]
Read more»February 27, 2012
Back at the start of the year, we included Alla Spina in our list of the Top 12 Restaurant Openings in Philly in 2012. Turns out, we weren’t the only ones pretty exited for it: earlier this month, GQ named Alla Spina one of the five hottest restaurant openings in the entire country for 2012. [...]
Read more»February 3, 2012
So the Super Bowl is this weekend. And we thought it made for an appropriate time to bring you a new roundup of places to go for great wings around the city. Also, in case you didn’t hear, today, February 3, marks the 20th anniversary of a little event called the Wing Bowl, the annual [...]
Read more»February 1, 2012
Federal Donuts, the smash hit fried chicken and donuts shop from Steven Cook, Michael Solomonov, BODHi Coffee owners Thomas Henneman and Bob Logue, and local food-and-drink expert Felicia D’Ambrosio, has officially hit the big leagues. In today’s New York Times Dining Section, there is a big feature on the newcomer to South Philadelphia’s Pennsport neighborhood, [...]
Read more»January 10, 2012
Yes! Federal Donuts has finally decided to make their insanely delicious fried chicken available in the evenings! Even if it is only two nights a week… In response to the seemingly endless demand for their incredibly popular birds, Federal Donuts will start serving fried chicken for dinner on the weekends, in addition to the lunch [...]
Read more»December 15, 2011
Questlove is everywhere these days: New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Ad Week, making headlines on Late Night… And now Bon Appétit, as Questlove’s suddenly famous fried chicken comes in at #15 in the mag’s list of the “25 Things to Eat, Drink and Cook in 2012.” The Roots’ drummer has a made a quick splash in the food world after debuting his “Love Drumstick” this fall. What is the “Drumstick” you ask? A gourmet piece of Creole-seasoned, buttermilk fried chicken, sourced locally from Lancaster County. The food truck project is still in the works. [Bon Appétit]
