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James Beard Awards Nominees Revealed

  Nominees for the 2008 James Beard Awards, often referred to as the ‘Oscars of the food industry’, were announced today. Here are the local […]

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Vincent Vega Is Right

March 1st is National Pig Day and The Bite highlights some of the best places to celebrate the big day. Also in today’s edition, a […]

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The Year In Bells

Craig LaBan looks back at the year in restaurants in Philadelphia bumping up the ratings for three restaurants, Rae to 3 bells and Brandywine Prime […]

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Cranberry Sangria

We here at the Foobooz are suckers for sangria. In fact in the plans for our our state-of-the-art world headquarters there is a sophisticated sangria […]

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Celebrity Chef Dinner At Amada

Amada’s Jose Garces and Christopher Lee of Manhattan’s Gilt are teaming up for a special dinner at Amada on November 15th. The dinner is part […]

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Restaurant Week At Amada

Foodzings is obviously someone who plans ahead. How else did they get Restaurant Week reservations to Amada. Read about their hype-worthy time. Restaurant Week – […]

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Top Ten Booked Restaurants

Usually when we check out the top ten booked restaurants in Philadelphia via OpenTable it’s almost all steakhouses. But not here in the middle of […]

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Garces Falls At James Beard Awards

Jose Garces of Amada and Tinto failed to capture the Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic award at last night’s James Beard Awards, the Oscars for Chefs and […]

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The Times’ Frank Bruni In Philadelphia

Frank Bruni, food critic for the New York Times was recently in Philadelphia and describes a couple of experiences he had here.The first is a […]

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Empire Builder

Philadelphia Weekly’s cover story this week features Jose Garces, chronicling his rise to the top of Philadelphia’s food chain. “He’s a one-in-a-million talent,” Rodriguez says […]

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Whole Different Meaning To Whole Foods

Gridskipper produces a guide to where to eat whole animals in Philadelphia. Among the highlights, the whole goat at Vetri, whole pig at Amada, whole […]

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Restaurant Week Last Second Tables

OpenTable.com doesn’t have any tables available at Amada all week. But there are some tables at other spots available tonight. Tables For Two: Brasserie Perrier: […]

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New Years

We here at Foobooz have to be honest, we’re not the biggest fans of New Years. Events are often over-priced, under-served and most frustratingly, overrun […]

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Tuesday Night

Looking for a good cheap burger? Try the Black Door Burger at the Black Door, 2nd and Bainbridge. At just $7 for a burger and […]

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Tapas In Philadelphia

Did you know the Spanish tradition of tapas dates back to the 10th century when King Alfonso was nursed back to health with a diet […]