Year In Review: June
Meme Fried Chicken Lunch
We’ll be looking back at the year in Foobooz. June, 2009, a month where Philadelphia finally got its German back.
News
- What posessed Craig LaBan to try KFC’s Kentucky Grilled Chicken?
- Oyster House is reborn on Sansom Street.
- 610 WIP names Paesano’s hoagie the best in the Delaware Valley and dashes our hopes for late night Paesano’s.
- The Fountain at the Four Seasons retains it four-bells in a revisit by Craig LaBan.
- Here’s a review we didn’t see coming, Adam Erace’s praise for Old City’s Bocca.
- Rick’s Steaks opens at the food court in the Bellevue.
- From one of the tubes that makes up the Internet dropped the Happy Hour Spreadsheet. A painstaking work of local happy hours.
- Le Bec-Fin tried a lot of gimics in 2009, none more intriguing than its pay what you want promotion.
- The Flying Fish Exit series gets the NJTPK people grumbling.
- Rick Nichols follows Stephen Starr on a pizza fact-finding mission up the East Coast.
- The Great Philly Cheesesteak Book is really great.
- Craig LaBan experiences the fried chicken lunch at Meme.
- Marc Bee’s Silk City Beer Garden starts to get some notice.
Dish of the Month
Pulled pork sandwich at Bebe’s Barbecue
Coates so overloads the soft roll, you can’t help having visions of the rusty red stains awaiting your clothes. But the bun, it’s like a sponge for the vinegar-tipped Lexington, Carolina-style sauce, a Memory Foam mattress for the 16-hour smoked pork shoulder, contouring to the heap of unctuous tatters. Adam Erace, Philadelphia Weekly
Notable Openings
Brauhaus Schmitz, Franklin Mortgage & Investment Co., Rick’s Steaks, Sycamore, Wine Thief
Notable Closings
Copper Bistro, Strongbox, Susanna Foo
