Delicious City Philly

It's not every day that we announce a new cohost on Delicious City, but today's the day! We officially have a third wheel on DC and we are ecstatic to have Dave Wez, aka @feedingtimetv, officially join this podcast. It's a very international podcast this week that's packed to the gills with deliciously entertaining chit-chat.

Here's what else to expect in this episode:

• Introducing Dave Wez as he gives us a summer update
• Eli learns what a 302 is in Sea Isle City 🥴
• How Dave figures out where to eat next
• Would you eat the Sardinian cheese that maggots help ferment?
• Which Philly chef smuggled ortolans from France in a false bottom coffee can?
• Does a Chicago style Italian Beef sandwich (like in The Bear) exist in Philly?
• Eli's hack for getting an Italian Beef in Philly
• Marisa's best bites come from the beaches of Dewey and Her Place
• Someone gets jelly of Amanda Shulman's wittiness. So clever!
• Eli's incredible week of eating, where he was batting a 1000 on great meals from Puerto Rico to Cambodia to Ethiopia
• Delicious City Supper Club III recap and why it blew people's minds
• Chef Diana Widjojo drops in to talk about her August pop-up, Rice & Sambal, at Dankbaar
• Her famous Covid pivot, aka the viral sensation "The Not Pizza" box, makes its return to Philly!
• Sneaking out of the house in Bali to eat pig, even though she grew up in a Muslim household.
• Food news!
• Get a piece of the famous floor from one of Philly's most iconic bakeries
• The return of an infamous South Philly Chef at Rivers Casino. Yo Cuz!
• And lots more…

And of course we could not do this without our amazing partners who are as passionate about food and drink as we are:

• For the most tasty, healthy, and satisfying salads and noodle dishes in Philly, click here to order Honeygrow
• If your restaurant or company wants to be in the headlines for all the right reasons, click here to discover how Peter Breslow Consulting and PR can take your business to the next level
• Interested in seeing which bars or restaurants are part of Center City SIPS?

Connect with us on Instagram and, of course, share your eating adventures with us as well as tag us in your posts so we can talk about them on air

Josh Sharkey trained under some incredible, generational chef talent, like David Bouley, like Indian super star chef, Floyd Cardoz, and the Great Gray Kunz, and in doing so, he built up his repertoire and his résumé, so no matter what he did, he would be successful. But after working for these industry titans, he found himself on a new mission. It was after he lost an important notebook that was chock-full of recipes and techniques that he had been taught over the years that he came up with the idea of developing software where no recipe, no technique, or learned knowledge will ever go missing again because someone lost their notebook.

Here’s what was discussed:

• After his father passed when he was just a teenager, he began cooking for his family
• Training as a chef in Oslo with Chef Terje Ness at Oro
• Eating donkey in Piedmont 
• Working with Chef Floyd Cardoz at Tabla and why it was a dream kitchen
• Cooking with headlamps during the NYC blackout of 2003
• Working with Chef David Bouley at the restaurant's height
• Why working in Café Gray, with Chef Gray Kunz, was so instrumental in his upbringing
• The perfection that is the Kunz spoon
• Josh’s first foray into entrepreneurship with Bark Hotdogs
• No matter how good your product is, you have to be able to tell a story with your food
• The moment he came up with the concept of his recipe company, MEEZ
• Why MEEZ is an incredibly powerful tool for kitchens
• How they painstakingly converted product yields into the software
• The ease of training your teams when using MEEZ
• Why building MEEZ has given him more fulfillment than his career in the kitchen

A huge shout out to our sponsors, Maxwell McKenney and Singer Equipment, for their unwavering support, which allows us to be able to bring these conversations to you. Check out their websites for all the amazing equipment they can supply your restaurant with to make your team more efficient and successful.

Welcome to our newest sponsor, Meez, which is one of the most powerful tools you can have as a cook and chef because it allows you to have a free repository for all of your recipes, techniques and methods so that you never lose them. Meez does way more than just recipe development though, it's an incredibly powerful tool that any chef or restaurant would benefit from.

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Warning!! 🚧 Eat before you listen! This podcast full of deliciousness as we have the one and only, Rachel Klein, join us in studio to talk about her journey with her celebrated South Philly restaurant, where she's quietly cooked for throngs of supporters since 2015. Between her and the incredible amount of food news that you need to hear, this Delicious City has it all.

• Choosing what to serve and Abbott Elementary star at WMMR
• The beauty of spices covering the entire bagel
• Introducing Rachel Klein of Ms. Rachel's Pantry
• Beating Bobby Flay and his portabella mushroom
• Why shared kitchens when you're an upstart chef are a bit weird
• What an experience at her restaurant is like
• Why food tastes better when it's served by someone nice
• Her vegan crab cakes and why Eli was blown away by it
• What's next for her and Ms. Rachel's Pantry
• Rachel's three best bites and why one of them involves a banh mi at Ba Le
• Marisa goes to Taco Lab for the first time
• Eli pulls a Marisa at Beddia for his best bite
• When you want to eat the entire crust, you know it's a quality pizza
• Marisa breaks down her road trip to Canada through her best bites
• The legend of the Miracle On Ice continues in Lake Placid
• There are few greater food experiences than finding a great roadside shack
• Marisa takes her modest eating husband to River Twice - Tomato Season!
• Lots of food news…lots!
• Big news coming out of Zahav. Better get there early
• A new Franklin Fountain flavor is hitting HipCityVeg
• The Melrose Diner may rise out of the ashes
• And lots more!!!!

And of course we could not do this without our amazing partners who are as passionate about food and drink as we are:

• For the most tasty, healthy, and satisfying salads and noodle dishes in Philly, click here to order Honeygrow
• If your restaurant or company wants to be in the headlines for all the right reasons, click here to discover how Peter Breslow Consulting and PR can take your business to the next level
• Interested in seeing which bars or restaurants are part of Center City SIPS?

Connect with us on Instagram and, of course, share your eating adventures with us as well as tag us in your posts so we can talk about them on air!

Even in the middle of her vacation, Marisa makes the time to grace us with her presence, thanks to a left behind passport and postponing her Canadian dream vacation. But hey, she's glad she did because she's been asking Eli to bring Ellen on the podcast since pretty much the inception of Delicious City, so this was a fun one for her, and she checked off one of her bucket list guests. So join in on the fun as James Beard Restaurateur of the Year, Ellen Yin, reflects back on her incredible journey as she takes a fun trip down memory lane, talking about some of the trailblazing restaurants that came before her and Fork.

Here's what else was discussed:

• 2:35 The team recaps their Fourth of July shenanigans
• 9:00 Wheelchair crowd surfing makes it on as a topic
• 12:52 Our third Supper Club is almost here!!
• 17:38 Duke's mayo surprise and a new hoodie just in time for the sweltering heat
• 20:10 The incomparable Ellen Yin joins us
• 32:51 How Ellen convinced Eli to come to Philly
• 41:46 Ellen's background and how she found herself in restaurants
• 50:00 Ellen's chance encounter experience at the Beard Awards
• 57:05 How Sisterly Love Collective was born out of the pandemic to connect women in the industry
• 1:01:41 The moment Ellen won at the Beard Awards and Eli's epic cinematography fail
• 1:06:22 Best Bites that include an off menu smoked beef curry for one of Philadelphia's most beloved chefs
• 1:12:20 Food News

And of course we could not do this without our amazing partners who are as passionate about food and drink as we are:

• For the most tasty, healthy, and satisfying salads and noodle dishes in Philly, click here to order Honeygrow
• If your restaurant or company wants to be in the headlines for all the right reasons, click here to discover how Peter Breslow Consulting and PR can take your business to the next level
• Interested in seeing which bars or restaurants are part of Center City SIPS?

Connect with us on Instagram and, of course, share your eating adventures with us as well as tag us in your posts so we can talk about them on air!

Today, we invite one of Philadelphia's most talented and passionate makers of both Circles and Squares, Dan Gutter and his wife Hagan, into the studio to give us a rundown of there growing company.

Listen closely as the details for the new supper club is in this episode. Tickets are now live and there are Limited discounted prices for Delicious City listeners! Look forward to seeing all of you on the farm for supper club #3

If you've ever wondered what happens during the James Beard Awards weekend, then this is the episode for you because Eli gives an incredible rundown of the winning weekend in Chicago for Philly restaurants! In fact, we took home 3 James Beards (including 2 national awards). Nok Sunternanon, Ellen Yin & Friday Saturday Sunday!🥇🥇🥇

Here's some other things we talked about:

• Best bites from Kampar and the streets of Chicago, and even Dunkin' Donuts makes its BB debut
• The foul, stinky beauty of Durian and where to get it
• What is a sambal anyway? Eli breaks it down
• A nondescript, creepy white food truck wins over Eli's taste buds
• Eli has an absolute obsession with Chicago's Italian Beef Sandwich, and he has the cojones to say it's better than the cheesesteak
• Mental and physical wellness support for restaurant employees from the Southern Smoke Foundation and CORE
• How the industry has evolved so quickly when it comes to supporting itself with mental health and wellness
• Marisa wants her Gen Y back, dammit and we are not happy with they!
• Center City Sips joins us to talk about Philly's harbinger of summer
• How Sips has helped bars get through the summer
• Chris from Top Tomato joins us to talk about what they're doing for Sips

And of course we could not do this without our amazing partners who are as passionate about food and drink as we are:

• For the most tasty, healthy, and satisfying salads and noodle dishes in Philly, click here to order Honeygrow
• If your restaurant or company wants to be in the headlines for all the right reasons, click here to discover how Peter Breslow Consulting and PR can take your business to the next level
• Check out all the great places to get delicious drinks and catch good vibes with

  Center City Sips

We switch up the format a little bit for episode 42, but you get all the same tasty deliciousness still packed in there that you know and love. For this episode, we invite Steve Martinho, editor in chief of the hit new food zine, Stereo Flavors, that's taking Philadelphia by storm, and he talks to us about his origin story and why it has become so successful so quickly. But, the phone doesn't stop there. We're talking about Memorial Day, Pizza Freaks, properly cooked halibut, and where you need to go while at the shore. Come for the food news, stay for the Chef Boyardee ravioli talk.👨🏻‍🍳

Here's what was chatted about:

• Southeast Asian Market is taking over our brains
• We are moving Memorial Day back one week later
• A badass pizza party from Pizza Freak and The Last Dragon coming up
• Wine tasting while you're "shoring" this summer
• A new Good Dog hot dog spot is opening in a former swingers club in AC
• A $700 hamburger lands in Philly at the Drury Beer Garden that involves $3000 honey
• NYC transplant opens a small BYO in the Grays Ferry hood where you're going to want to "gather"
• A Passyunk restaurant forgoes the long form tasting menu
• Why eggrolls might be the most versatile food in the galaxy
• Some sad closings and evolutions with some local food businesses and restaurants:(
• Janet Jackson gets a Philadelphia birthday cake, and Marisa serenades us with some JJ
• Steve Martinho of Stereo Flavors zine graces us with his presence
• The definition of a "zine"
• How Steve accidentally became a chef at a local central Jersey restaurant
• Stereo Flavors origin story
• Steve's favorite condiment store
• How would you describe the flavor of Chef Boyardee's ravioli?
• All the locations where you can pick up an issue of Stereo Flavors
• Steve's famous meatball recipe is finally revealed
• Do carrots and raisins belong in meatballs?
• Have you ever heard of a Jersey Italian hotdog? Well, listen up!
• Best bites come from MAWN, Ambra, Steve and Cookies, and My Loup

For the most tasty, healthy, and satisfying salads and noodle dishes in Philly, click here to order Honeygrow

If your restaurant or company wants to be in the headlines for all the right reasons, click here to discover how Peter Breslow Consulting and PR can take your business to the next level.

As always, we try to bring you the most relevant food news out there, but with a little bit of laughter and enjoyable banter. This week, our friends at Heavy Metal Sausage join us, where they talk about their rise over the past couple years and their signature "tongue blood sausage"....Mmm, it just kind of rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? But hey, if that's not your thing, you're in luck, because Pat and Melissa give us all the details on what it's like growing a small business these days and then being surprised with a James Beard nomination when you least expect it.

Here's what else we talked about:

• What percentage of your income goes to eating out?
• A very Philly wedding gift for Marisa….think drunk Jason Kelsie
• Eli's obsession with a well shucked oyster
• Can carpal tunnel happen from shucking oysters?
• Pat's introduction to charcuterie via Chef Nick Elmi and how hotdogs were the gateway drug
• How Melissa and Pat's romance blossomed like "blunt force trauma" 🤣
• How Heavy Metal Sausage became more of a deli where they now mill their own flour for their fresh baked bread
• How they work really hard to keep all their food truly regional. Lemons, you're out of here!
• How they were blindsided when the James Beard semi finalist list was announced
• Some unexpected Best Bites
• Marisa's daredevil move with a baseball bat full of beer at the ball park
• A great new coffee shop called Thank You Thank You
• Some incredible events are coming up. Think free chicken sandwiches with Chef Jen Caroll
• Milk Tubes bring down the house
• The Reading Terminal swamp creature
• The mayoral food vote: your candidates favorite restaurants and our picks

And of course we could not do this without our amazing partners who are as passionate about food and drink as we are:

• For the most tasty, healthy, and satisfying salads and noodle dishes in Philly, click here to order Honeygrow
• If your restaurant or company wants to be in the headlines for all the right reasons, click here to discover how Peter Breslow Consulting and PR can take your business to the next level

Connect with us on Instagram and, of course, share your eating adventures with us as well as tag us in your posts so we can talk about them on air!

Chefs Rich Landau & Kate Jacoby of Vedge fame drop in to the studio to talk about their newest restaurant, Ground Provisions, and why it's worth a trip out to West Chester, where this energetic upstart is a chance for Rich and Kate to really get back to cooking the way that they started with small, intimate gatherings serving perfectly in-season vegetable dishes.

Here's what else we discussed:

• Marisa spills the beans on her surprise wedding and why she waned to be the first to be married at the brand new Punk Rock Museum in Vegas
• A recap of our second Delicious City Supper Club, where chefs Joey Baldino and Dominic Piperno absolutely crushed it
• The early days of veganism in Philadelphia and why Horizons Café rewrote the rules
• Why Rich's cooking style appealed to a broad audience that wasn't just vegans
• Why it was so important for them to elevate vegan cuisine
• We discuss their newest little love letter, Ground Provisions, and why Kate is absolutely in love with this restaurant and market
• A Best Bite for Eli that involves Pennsylvania rice, and yes, it's actually from Pennsylvania!
• Marisa's Best Bite comes from Vegas, but with a Philly flare.
• A great new wine bar in Center City, where a couple of industry veterans are planning their flag
• The reviews are in, and it seems that MAWN restaurant is an instant classic that Philly didn't know it was missing
• Dutch and northern European food is alive and well in Philadelphia with chef Joncarlo Lachman's latest restaurant, Dankbaar
• In the mood for some Philadelphia classics, but done with a Korean twist? Check out the newest Grays Ferry neighborhood restaurant called Korea Taqueria
• Our wonderful guests are subjected to one of Eli's ridiculous games where their knowledge of each other's quirks and habits is tested

And of course we could not do this without our amazing partners who are as passionate about food and drink as we are:

• For the most tasty, healthy, and satisfying salads and noodle dishes in Philly, click here to order Honeygrow
• If your restaurant or company wants to be in the headlines for all the right reasons, click here to discover how Peter Breslow Consulting and PR can take your business to the next level

Hey all! With spring in the air, we have one of Philly's best veggie slingers in the house to talk about all the incredible deliciousness that is heading to a restaurant near you with the warming weather. Can you guess who our special guest is? As always, let us know what you think of the episode!

• Marisa's not in a good mood
• But, as always, a little food talk perks Marisa right up
• Our guest's journey from being a Whole Foods janitor to being an independent grocer
• How slinging pumpkins out of the garage changed his life
• There have been a lot of opinions floating around about "The Best" cheesesteaks, but our guest enters a new dog into the fight
• A giant, ginger garlic oyster makes its debut on Delicious City's Best Bites
• Our esteemed guest shares his fave Banh mi in Philly with us
• Eli makes a trip to Wilmington to explore what's going on down there and gets his mind blown
• Tons of food news is happening, so listen up!
• Delicious City Supper Club is sold out, and we are so excited for this coming Sunday. See you all there!
• Make sure you are foraging responsibly! Don't take the whole ramp bulb:-)
• The first ever Quiz-Atta, where Miss Magn-Atta gets a veggie pop quiz from Philadelphia's own produce guru
• Dollar-Dog debauchery happening at Citizens Bank Field
• Congratulations to our friend Michael Klein for 30 years at the inquiry! We love you!

And of course we could not do this without our amazing partners who are as passionate about food and drink as we are:

• For the most tasty, healthy, and satisfying salads and noodle dishes in Philly, click here to order Honeygrow
• If your restaurant or company wants to be in the headlines for all the right reasons, click here to discover how Peter Breslow Consulting and PR can take your business to the next level

Connect with us on Instagram and, of course, share your eating adventures with us as well as tag us in your posts so we can talk about them on air!