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$12 Million Steakhouse Union Trust Closes

If you have a reservation for dinner tonight at Chestnut Street steakhouse Union Trust, you might want to start making other plans. A sign on […]

Foobooz

Without a Liquor License, Union Trust Closes

It has been twenty months since the $12 million Union Trust declared bankruptcy, with owner Joe Grasso telling me on more than one occasion since […]

City Life

Former PLCB Chairman Quits Board Amid Investigation

P.J. Stapleton III has stepped down from his spot on Pennsylvania’s Liquor Control Board after 15 years with the organization. A confidential report from the […]

Foobooz

Top Liquor Purchasers for 2011

Here’s the 2011 liquor purchasers in Philadelphia for 2011. This factors out wine purchases from the state. All that tequila really runs up the bill […]

City Life

Del Frisco’s Buys More Wine and Booze Than Barclay Prime and Butcher & Singer Combined

Anyone serving wine or liquor in Pennsylvania has to buy their hooch from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. At my request, the PLCB has made […]

City Life

The PLCB Wants You to Bring Back Your Tequila

The PLCB has issued a voluntary recall of 1.75 liter bottles of 1800 Silver, Reposado, and Coconut tequila because the liquor may have glass particles […]

Foobooz

Iron Hill Mug Club Faces Crackdown

There is a secret club that has been operating outside the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for more than ten years. But thankfully state […]

Foobooz

Inspector General Takes Aim at PLCB

In a pair of unflattering reports regarding the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, the state Inspector General finds that LCB employees have lax work habits and […]

City Life

Stephen Starr Denies Involvement in Alleged PLCB Corruption

PLCB Gift Investigation. A confidential report filed by the Inspector General’s Office implicates three of the top officials at the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. According […]

City Life

I Don’t Want to Buy My Booze From Governor Corbett Anymore

Almost every one of us has been there, or at least experienced something like it: It’s Saturday afternoon and you’re standing in the grocery store […]

City Life

House Promises to Vote on Liquor Privatization

The state House of Representatives is supposed to vote on liquor privatization and the liberalization of beer sales next week. The plan would call for […]

City Life

This Is the PLCB’s $100,000 iPhone App

The folks at Philadelphia Weekly spent some time tinkering with the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board’s iPhone application. It was recently reported that the PLCB dropped […]

City Life

PLCB Says Minors Served Booze at Xfinity Live

Since Xfinity Live opened up about a month ago, pretty much everybody in the city has been to—or at least hear of—the excitement spurred by […]

Foobooz

Quick Bites: West Philly Closures, One More Food Truck

The closest liquor store to Penn and Drexel’s campus at 41st and Market is closed. Who would have guessed we’d miss that wine kiosk in […]

City Life

PLCB Votes to Raise Liquor and Wine Prices

Your drunk just got a little pricier. Today the PLCB voted unanimously to end the 18-month freeze on state liquor prices, which means that 313 […]