Joey Baldino

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You Don’t Need to Be Italian to Throw a Seven Fishes Feast

Palizzi Social Club is a very special place to its members — a refuge from the outside world filled with crab pasta and swordfish spiedini. […]

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You Can Now Pre-Order Cookbooks From Two of Philly’s Best Restaurants

Want to cook like a top Philadelphia chef? Two new cookbooks from two of the highest-rated restaurants in the city are coming out this fall […]

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Palizzi Social Club Will Finally Start Selling Memberships Again

Yesterday was a monumental day in Philly restaurant history, because yesterday, someone tried selling a membership card to South Philly’s beloved members-only restaurant, Palizzi Social […]

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Palizzi Has Stopped Accepting New Members

Less than a week after it was awarded the number four spot on Bon Appétit’s Best New Restaurants list, Palizzi Social Club has announced via […]

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Palizzi Social Club Is (Obviously) One of Bon Appétit’s 10 Best New Restaurants in America

Did you hear it? That resounding “well DUH” that echoed around the city a little while ago? That was the Philly restaurant scene reacting to […]

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Philly’s Toughest Restaurant Reservation Is Actually in Collingswood, N.J.

Everything that could be said about the Sicilian genius coming from behind the line at Zeppoli has already been said. In addition to winning three stars in 2011 […]

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Chef Joey Baldino Responds to Our Review of Palizzi Social Club

On Tuesday, I published my three-star review of Palizzi Social Club, the members-only and rules-bound South Philly joint which chef Joey Baldino (of Zeppoli in […]

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Do You Believe in Magic? Palizzi Social Club Reviewed

You know it’s open when the neon is on, glowing gently in the window of a rowhouse on 12th Street just off Passyunk Avenue. You […]

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James Beard Finally Acknowledges Philly’s Little Guys (and Gals) for its 2017 Semifinalists List

This story has been updated. The almighty James Beard Awards Committee rarely ever left its comfort-zone when it came down to Philadelphia restaurants. Year after year, it […]

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News of Joey Baldino’s Filippo Palizzi Club Literally Broke the Internet

  On Monday, we let you in on a little secret: Zeppoli’s Joey Baldino is making his return to the Philadelphia dining scene in a rather unorthodox fashion. You see, Baldino is the […]

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Zeppoli’s Joey Baldino is About to Open a Members-Only “Restaurant” in Philly

You know Zeppoli. It’s Joey Baldino’s ode to Sicilian cuisine, a BYOB tucked away in Collingswood, N.J. behind some of the most honest, straightforward Italian cookery this region has — and […]

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Vetri Is The Best Italian Restaurant In America (According To Time Out)

Time Out has been hard at work recently, rounding a whole bunch of lists of the best stuff in America. And now that they’ve gotten […]

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Hot Diggity Popping Up at Swarthmore Hot Dog Jamboree

Hot Diggity is popping up at Hobbs Coffee (1 Park Avenue, Swarthmore, PA) this Friday, April 3rd at 6:30 p.m. for the shop’s annual Hot Dog […]

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Sidecar’s March Wing Man: Joey Baldino

This month was Sidecar Bar and Grille‘s inaugural “Monthly Wing Thing” featuring Jim Burke, and we just found out that next month’s (aka March’s) wingmaster extraordinaire is […]

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About Last Night: Not Your Average Joe

So last night was our big, Best of Philly 40th Anniversary Open Stove Masters showdown, pitting Joe Cicala from Le Virtu against Joey Baldino from […]