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April is National Grilled Cheese month!

April 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments · Collingswood, NJ, Pop Shop, favorites, grilled cheese, jaimeshake, restaurant

woo hoo!  i seriously love me some grilled cheese.  and i couldn’t have spent the first day of national grilled cheese month at a better place – the pop shop in collingswood, nj.  known for their kitschy, throwback style and insanely large menu, including 30 different kinds of grilled cheese (their specialty), the pop shop [...]

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Moments in haute cuisine – Le Bec-Fin

January 27th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Le Bec-Fin, burgerbaroness, philly, restaurant

I’d never been any place so formal where people were so loose. It must have been the waiters. There seemed to be an endless supply of them in black tuxedos of varying degrees of elegance. There was the one who lit the candles and the one who refilled our water; the bread-basket keeper; the cheese [...]

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Zahav dish named a "best restaurant dish" 2008 in Food & Wine

December 4th, 2008 · No Comments · food and wine, jaimeshake, philly, restaurant

Food & Wine has honored Michael Solomonov’s fried cauliflower with lebneh as one of the top restaurant dishes of 2008 out of 10 other honorees, in its December 2008 issue.  Zahav’s modern Israeli cuisine has been lighting up critics and bloggers alike since it opened earlier this year.  The other winners that have set my [...]

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Paesano’s is open!

November 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment · NoLibs, Paesanos, burgerbaroness, philly, pork, restaurant

Thanks to a heads up by Foobooz, I found out that one of my favorite restaurants, Modo Mio, was opening a sandwich shop. I don’t know how I missed it because I pass by it daily on my way to and from work. Chris ended up running into the chef Peter McAndrew, of Modo Mio, [...]

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breaking: bobby flay to open burger joint at UPenn?

November 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · burger, food network, jaimeshake, philly, restaurant

university of pennsylvania’s student-run newspaper, the daily pennsylvanian, broke the news earlier this morning that the management team behind superstar chef and food network personality, bobby flay, is interested in possibly opening a burger joint in the radian here on campus.  the radian is a fairly new 475 bed, mixed-use student apartment building between 39th [...]

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Celebrating our right to vote with breakfast at Honey’s

November 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Honey's Sit N Eat, NoLibs, breakfast, burgerbaroness, cheap eats, favorites, restaurant

Chris and I treated ourselves to a delicious breakfast after voting on Tuesday. We weren’t too far from one of our favorite places, Honey’s Sit N Eat, so we went there. I have had a lot of their more interesting dishes like their breakfast poboy sandwich and their brisket omelet but it was their basic [...]

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Kiss my grits!

September 10th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Johnny Brenda's, NoLibs, burgerbaroness, philly, pork, restaurant

I can’t believe I lived in Southern Virginia for 4 years of undergrad and never ate grits. They served them every morning at my school’s cafeteria and yet never did my fork touch them. I had a roommate who loved instant grits and yet I never asked to taste some. I had no interest in [...]

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