Meritage Korean Fried Chicken

Since Meritage renovated and "reinvented" themselves about a year ago (?), they've been rolling out different specials, including a vegan tasting menu and Korean tacos (originated at Ansill. So good.). Although we've been to Meritage in the past, and certainly enjoyed the food, it wasn't exactly the kind of place we wanted to run back to (a little pricey for food that was solid but not stellar). However, they started another new special last week:...

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Farm to Fork

As proud participants in a CSA, we definitely think more about eating fresh/organic/in season/local. When finding recipes and meal inspiration to use our seemingly never-ending produce, I usually turn to other blogs (mostly through TasteSpotting, of course). I will occasionally "borrow" some recipes from old Cooking Light magazines at home, or from random copies of Food and Wine left in the lunchroom at work, or browse around the Food Network website,...

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Marigold Kitchen

After A & I's earlier experience with the UC Dining Days, we decided to try one of the higher end restaurants- even at $30, some of these places are a fantastic deal. We chose Marigold Kitchen, out in West Philly at 45th and Baltimore. A has previously dined at this adorable neighborhood restaurant, which is built into the end unit of a series of rowhomes. However, there has been a major change in the kitchen since she was last there, with...

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Sang Kee Noodle House

Every time a new restaurant opens on Penn's campus, I cry a little inside. It seems completely unfair that we couldn't have all of these culinary delights during the four years that we were stuck there. Brattiness aside, University City is really developing it's restaurant scene; one of the more recent additions is Sang Kee Noodle House. Located within the Sheraton Hotel, Sang Kee is actually one of a number of restaurants owned by the same group,...

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Adsum

Although we're still not totally sure how to pronounce the name of this place, we've had our eye on Matthew Levin's new creation for quite some time now. When it finally opened this week, a good friend of ours sent out a fortuitous email asking if we'd like to check it out during it's opening week. We didn't exactly need to be asked twice...We headed down to 5th and Bainbridge to find a rather busy restaurant at 7 PM. Since they don't take reservations...

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A(nother) Weekend in Nashville

We've just returned from summer vacation #1, another weekend trip to Nashville, Tennessee. We had so much fun on our last trip that we almost immediately began making plans for another visit. There are too many great things about "Nashvegas" to count, but one of the things we love the most is exploring the city through food. Our friends there have really done an excellent job of visiting the huge variety of restaurants in and around the city,...

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Southern Cookin'

The title of this post is a little misleading because the food we made involved very little actual cooking. After perusing the Saturday morning Rittenhouse farmer's market a few weekends ago, we saw a few items that inspired us: green tomatoes and cucumber pickles. Fried green tomatoes are considered somewhat of a "Southern delicacy" and it's relatively hard to find them in this city- our best success with them was actually in DC. As you know,...

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