It must be good to be Craig LaBan. On Tuesday during his weekly chat LaBan lamented: Craig:  David – I’m being very selfish here, but […]

How do you get passersbys to notice you’ve redone your restaurant concept? Well, someone at Akoya, the newly formulated Japanese bar at Pearl, had the […]

Each day around mid-day we’ll be highlighting a Restaurant Week reservation for two we think looks good. Today’s easy, there’s a table for two availab […]

The Philly Beer Week details are starting to emerge in the second incarnation of this enormous event. Joe Sixpack has a trio of interesting tidbits. […]

As we told you on Friday, the Center City District has extended restaurant week for another six days. The vast majority of restaurants are participating […]

Oof, Craig LaBan likes the bar scene and bites at Alison two but struggles to find praise elsewhere. Alison two, in general, is not quite […]

Strolled past Ladder 15 last night and noticed the facade looks complete, which makes early March look quite conceivable. More exciting, they had a menu […]

Matyson doesn’t participate in Restaurant Week but the BYOB usually has interesting counter-programming. Often it is lobster madness but this week they’re doing a clever […]

Today’s Wall Street Journal has a dour look at the restaurant scene nationwide. But being that we’re silver lining types of people, we want to […]

This is a weekend in January? The dead zone weekend before the Super  Bowl to be exact. And yet there’s tons to do. Friday Personally […]

Philly Mag has a short-n-sweet Q&A with Jon Myerow, owner of Tria. Now Jon is one of our favorite local restaurateurs (he’s really more of […]

We think Local 44 is pretty darn special as is. But darned if they aren’t making it more enticing. They’ve got some fine winter beers […]

With word that Restaurant Week is indeed being extended, we hear the groans of worn out restaurant employees almost as loudly as the cheers of […]

Gourmet magazine has an entertaining feature in February’s issue about marriage proposals in restaurants: what can go right (an engagement ring cleverly presented in dessert) […]

Eater NY has a quick interview with ‘Top Chef’ guest judge Stephen Starr about his appearance on the show. An interesting tidbit: On the caliber […]