Food Blob: With A Whole Lotta Soul!
· South Street’s Miss Tootsie’s RBL, hot off of a win for MyFoxPhilly’s Best Soul Food Restaurant, will be ringing in November with 3 days of events: On the 2nd, they’ll be having a party to celebrate the win; on the 3rd, they’ll be celebrating their one year anniversary with Jill Scott, Monique, Musiq Soulchild and more in attendance; and on the 4th, they launch their “Champagne Soul Food Brunch.” That’s all great, but really, all we want right now is a side of collard greens, please. Check the site for coupons and reservations. [KevenParker]
· Oh, that sweet Jersey wine: Can it outdo the frogs-n-Napa’s? If we’re talking Amalthea Winery in sunny Atco, maybe. Brass at Amathea are claiming that their ’02 Cab-Sauv beat out contenders from California and France in a blind taste test earlier this month. No confirmation just yet on whether that blind taste test was conducted exclusively with friends, children and employees or not. [PhillyMag]
· And lastly, carnivores, at the risk of bigging up our neighborhood local a bit too much, you must try the burger just rolled out at Johnny Brenda’s, keeping in mind that these are the same folks that brought you the Standard Burger at Standard Tap. The JB’s burger is everything the Standard is not: Served on a poppy seed roll with cheddar and more traditional fixins’, augmented by another new arrival, Reading Premium Light. Yes, we know we’re biased, but seriously: JB’s burger cows do not die in vain. Respect. [ReadingBeer]
October 25th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
That’s great but when is Johnny Brenda’s going to introduce an avocado/bacon burger? Have yet to find one in Philadelphia.
October 25th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
NOW you’re worried about touting Johnny Brenda’s too much?
October 25th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Better than Mouton-Rothschild? That’s a mighty big claim, seeing how the “terroir”of Atco includes asphalt, body shop runoff, and Aqua Net. Then again, the lush grape vineyards of the haunted Italian island of Poveglia are still nourished by the 160,000 corpses dumped there during The Black Death. Makes for good wine, apparently.
The last time I tried local Jersey wine, it had an industrial nose, and literally tasted like cherry cough drops dissolved in turpentine; I had to warn friends to throw away the bottle before they tried it.
I want to believe–I’m a proud exporter of local produce–but I think I’ll stick with our world-class berries, corn, tomatoes, peaches and greens for now.
October 25th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Rae has a bacon avocado burger. And it’s a tasty burger.