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Taste: Where We’re Eating: September 2008

The Plaza and The Market at Comcast Center Just outside the Comcast Center’s main entrance sits Table 31’s The Plaza. At the fountain-lined patio, happily […]

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The Best B&B Getaways: Glasbern Country Inn

Fogelsville is an organic farming mecca, home to the Rodale Institute, a pioneering organic and sustainable farming research center so respected among Greenies that their […]

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The Best B&B Getaways

Every year, there comes a time — midway between the last sweltering days of summer and the winter that yawns ahead — when the leaf-peeping […]

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Taste: Dinner With: Chef Jim Burke

Most recent meal: Leftovers again! Dry-aged sirloin with gingered romano beans and heirloom tomatoes.Best meal ever: Lunch at L’Astrance in Paris, the day I proposed […]

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Maia Review: Your Table Is (Finally) Ready

 From the earliest whispers back in 2005, Maia sounded like an overly ambitious proposition: a high-end restaurant, plus a casual bistro, plus a prepared-foods market, […]

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Performance Review: Andrew Dice Clay at the Borgata

Last weekend, the laugh-starved packed into the Borgata’s 900-seat Music Box to see notoriously offensive late-’80s comedy loudmouth Andrew Dice Clay try to recapture his […]

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Taste: Eat This Now: Macarons

That’s macarons, not macaroons. And the “o” makes all the difference. Though technically the spellings are interchangeable, the recipes rarely are. The two-o is a […]

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Web Original: Critic’s Notebook: Sweet Tooth

Bitar’s is justifiably famous for its falafel, but the chicken kabob sandwiches aren’t the end of the delicious offerings. Next time you’re around 10th and […]

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Fringe Player

One man can only have so much vision, and Nick Stuccio seemed to have reached his limit. He was having a conversation — one that […]

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Taste: In Search Of: Great Steaks

This fall brings a glut of new steakhouses to Center City — Butcher & Singer, Del Frisco’s Double Eagle, Union Trust — and as many […]

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Taste: Spirits: On Tap: Sly Fox Saison Vos

Belgian farmhouse ales are brewed extra-strong and hoppy to prevent spoilage. Sly Fox’s Saison Vos is brewed extra-strong and hoppy because it makes for a […]

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Taste: Spirits: What to Drink: September 2008

With: The complex Thai flavors at Manayunk BYOB Chabaa Thai Bistro.Drink: Crisp, young white wines are the perfect foil for Thai herbs like cilantro, and […]

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Taste: Spirits: Rye Times

You’ve heard, of course, of the Manhattan. Whiskey, sweet vermouth and cherry, it’s the granddaddy of all signature cocktails, evoking the elegance and power of […]

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Exit Interview: KaDee Strickland

You can take the girl out of Georgia and ship her off to the University of the Arts, but you can’t take away her Southern […]

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Icons: A Volatile Market

EARLIER THIS SUMMER, IN Judge Mark Bernstein’s chambers on the fifth floor of City Hall, the most memorable moment of Rick Olivieri v. Reading Terminal […]