Delicious City Philly

Spring is in the air, which means new restaurants are opening, events are happening, and your allergies are probably trying to kill you. Come to today's podcast for the food news, but stay for announcement of Phily's first "5 star dive bar" because let's face it, you need to catch up on what's happening in the ever evolving Philadelphia food scene.

• A wonderful gift of jerky to start the show off
• Our guest is celebrating one year at one of Philadelphia's most honored publication
• Our guest's food and writing highlights over the last year
• Why you need to go to Café walnut, NOW… think bulgogi croissant.
• Eli learns what gesticular means
• Our guest's experience as a writer for The Infatuation
• The BYO conundrum
• How our guest defined the new Top 50 list based on her experiences
• Our best bites at the James Beard Taste America event
• The Shore's best restaurant does a pop-up in Philly
• Marisa and our guest are absolutely smitten with the new MAWN
• A Turkish restaurant in Collingswood makes the debut on Delicious City, where a "steamy sauna of different grilled lamb pieces" await you
• The chef lineup is finally announced for the next DC Supper Club
• The James Beard finalists are out, and Philadelphia is crushing it
• A fringe restaurant gets rebranded
• Is The Jim the best new dive bar in Philly?
• Philly gets its first "five-star dive bar"
• Why we missed the video store so much
• South Street Art Mart is happening soon
• Don't forget to get your tickets to Chef Radio LIVE! At MANNA on 4/26
• Philly restaurant Jeopardy - Round 2

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!

Check out what we have going on this episode!

• Tickets now on sale for Delicious City Supper Club II with Chef Joey Baldino - follow link in Instagram bio
• Our guest, who LOVES their water ice, talks about their Philly brand, which you probably use all the time
• How our guest was able to create such an iconic brand in Philly via social media
• Reminiscing about spending time at The Gallery with AI's All-Star party
• Why Port Richmond might be your new vibe
• Some delicious cannolis get dropped off at the studio (thank you, Holy Cannoli Cafe!)
• Best bite from Eli involves grilled artichokes, pistachios, and citrus…unreal!
• Our guest unveils his favorite pupusa restaurant
• Marisa's marathon day of eating and drinking in South Philly and why Passyunk Ave never fails to impress
• A surprise guest drops in to officially announce their new restaurant!
• How her new business will help continue shining the spotlight on underrepresented chefs
• Some really great prizes for her Kickstarter
• Some really great events are happening that you want to hear about to help support
• A $1000 per year bar that you can become a part of, that is, if you meet their salary expectations
• Delicious city supper club tickets are now on sale!

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!

As always, proceed with caution if you're hungry. In today's podcast, we have Philly's "It" chef, whose rising star continues to burn bright, as well as two podcast-related event announcements that you're not going to want to miss.

Here's what else was discussed:

• One of the hosts continues to get more Philly famous, if that's even possible!
• A very special guest is joining us in studio and is cooking some of the most exciting food in Philly
• Best takeout restaurant of the year 2020
• The totally unexpected way our guest started cooking in Philly
• The difference between being a chef in Thailand compared to Philly
• How Nok met her future business partner
• Growing from a small BYOB restaurant into what Kalaya is today
• Why more babies need to dine out.
• Teaching her team to properly pronounce the Thai dishes
• A new Mexican restaurant wins the best bite from one of our hosts
• Chef Radio LIVE! at MANNA April 26th. Tix on sell March 8th
• The next Delicious City Supper Club has been announced for April 23rd
• The Schill Report finds a can't-miss Filipino restaurant where utensils are optional

Skip ahead timestamps:

[00:05:44} Nok reminds us of the proper way to pronounce Kalaya

[00:09:00] Her passion for cooking and slight obsession with the Food Network

[00:22:00] teaching her staff about the dishes

[00:27:52] James Beard Event

[00:31:30] Prawn Pop Rocks

[00:37:12] Best Bite

[00:50:28] Food News

[01:08:41} The Shill

• 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!

Welp, our Iggles didn't clinch like we hoped, but the good news is we have lots of delicious food to cry our alligator tears into and comfort our sorrows. And the good news is that tomorrow is Fat Tuesday, so we can all get blacked out drunk and forget about our sports reality. Joining us on this shiny bead-filled adventure is none other than Philadelphia's own King of Cajun,…....(You'll have to listen to find out;)

• Reminiscing of Delicious City's Supper Club No.1
• The amazing ASL interpreters and the attention they are getting
• Was this the best sports year in Philly or one of the worst?
• Super Bowl superstitions and possibly the demise of the Eagles
• A timely guest just in time for Fat Tuesday & Mardi Gras
• The not-so-dirty secrets of being a vendor at the Reading Terminal
• Marisa relives her fake ID/Bourbon Street days. Keep an eye out for that photo;)
• The surprising connection of our guest to his passion for Louisiana and its food
• Eli recounts his craziest Fat Tuesday story
• Marisa and Eli get sidetracked and talk about what they're watching right now
• The trouble with crab gravy
• Porco's strikes again, and an incredible lunch at a Szechuan staple
• The best cake in existence isn't from a bakery
• How fun it was to see our listeners and break bread with them, and how excited we are for the next one
• A new fried chicken spinoff from a recent hit restaurant in Old City
• A fire ripped through a Mexican staple in Philly
• A new game called Alligator Tears is in honor of Coach Sirianni's national anthem performance
• Our takes on Rihanna and the Super Bowl halftime show

Looking for a specific segment? Check out these time stamps to make it easy. See how thoughtful we are?

Meet the guest [00:08:50]

Secret time to eat at Reading Terminal [00:28:22]

Best Bite [00:38:20]

Super Club Recap [00:47:10]

Food News [00:51:18]

Alligator Tears [at the end:]

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

It's a Super Bowl bound podcast where we can't help but get a little giddy, and our guest today had to seek out a sports bar in Costa Rica just to see the game! But, as you'll hear, it couldn't have turned out any better for her. Even though it's hard to focus on food right now with Eagles mania, somehow we managed to do it. It's called commitment, people!

So, between food and Eagles talk, we dig deep into the genesis of one of the coolest Philadelphia stories you'll ever hear of destiny intervening in someone's life and putting them on a path of passion and purpose, and how Farmer Jawn's founder, Christa Barfield, found her love for farming after she burned out from her career and booked a trip to Martinique on a whim.

Besides this incredibly inspiring story, here's what else we talked about:

• The corner store dilemma and what it means to reconceptualize it
• The evolution of Her Place Supper Club
• Marisa's eye-opening experience at Roxanne's
• The incredible and groundbreaking Honeysuckle Provisions
• Delicious Haitian Pork Griot
• Eating offals and why they're so damn delicious
• A South Philly secret supper club
• A brand new gelato shop in Fishtown from a gelato connoisseur
• Why you need to go to Wilmington to eat: think smoked red cabbage
• Eli travels to New Jersey for his best bite at one of the best restaurants in our region
• Why you need to go to Southwark and order the duck
• A brand new vegan and gluten-free bakery in South Philly
• Why you need to run to Reading Terminal and eat Bialys
• Each of our go-to bagel orders
• An exciting dinner inside of a heated greenhouse that you are going to want to go to
• A Jalen Hurts surprise in a bottle
• Why you should have a thermometer at home when frying foods
• Marisa admits to never seasoning a very important part of cooking pasta
• A brand new hoagie shop in West Philadelphia
• Forsythia restaurant reopens after an indoor natural disaster
• An incredibly close win for the Delicious City supper club tickets

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!

Meet Rachel and Phila Lorn, the South Philly born and bread owners of MAWN, the new Cambodian Noodle Bar. They are both products of the Philadelphia food service industry, it's also where their love story began. This restaurant has been a dream of theirs for years, and it looks like we're just weeks away from opening.

One of Philly's "hottest" food experiences inspired flavors on the menu. The Southeast Asian Market was a staple in Phila's youth, way before the internet found out about it. If you were blown away the first time you saw it, imagine not seeing it for a decade or so and then returning in 2022 to see how it's grown. That's what happened when Rachel and Phila brought his Cambodian parents by last year.

What's the correlation between opening a restaurant and having a baby – why does it happen at the same time for so many chefs?

The best bites come from a Delicious City regular (*cough Randy Rucker cough*), a sandwich shop new to Eli that he finally visited, and a highly anticipated wine and pasta bar. P.S. Marisa has tips for getting in without a reservation.

Great stories fill up Food News with Eagles themed snacks, a couple of openings, and a couple of retirements.

Sticking with the "It's A Philly Thing" theme, we play What The Yelp, where Eli reads Yelp reviews and the rest of the crew has to guess which restaurant is being talked about.

And if you're still reading, then you'll learn that this podcast includes instructions on how to win tickets to Delicious City's almost sold-out Supper Club. Tune in for the full details.

Enjoy the latest episode and HAPPY EATING!

Philly Mag's 50 Best Restaurants issue has arrived. Love it or hate it, the list serves as a pretty good resource for finding the top spots in the city, so naturally, we kickoff the show with a blind test, quizzing each other on how many we've been to.

The real surprise comes later in the show when a few of the random spots we mention as our favorites pop up in the Top 50. It's nice to see how Philly Mag mixed a few gems into the list and really blew our minds.

Speaking of blowing minds, today's guest is really good at that. Dave Wez, known in the metaverse as @FeedingTimeTV, has a high energy, adventurous, relatable, and very funny food enthusiast IG account that started as a fun cooking show and then turned into a series of videos showing off all the bars and restaurants that Dave himself wants you to discover.

Follow for his South Fellini wardrobe, stay for his instantly loveable Korean + Japanese + Polish + Italian personality.

In Best Bites," Eli found his perfect swordfish filet in South Philly. Dave is bringing back the crab rangoon, and Marisa discovered the ideal cheese plate.

Back to the 50 Best Restaurants Congrats to Her Place Supper Club! Geez, we want to say that 2022 is your year, but it looks like 2023 is going to top that! We go over the top 10, or 13, or so. This list is kind of like our Super Bowl.

Food news brings the demise of Streeteries, conveyor belt sushi, a deep South Philly fresh pasta joint, a baby ban, and… updates to Delicious City Supper Club. It sold out – quickly – so we added a second seating. That's not all; we have a charity partner, Share Food Program. Executive Director, George Matysik, dropped by to enlighten us about this wonderful organization helping people across the region.

Oh, and Eli might go vegan? We'll see.

New year's resolutions aren't easy to commit to, so we're going to make it easy for you: commit to subscribing to the Delicious City Podcast, following us on Instagram & recommending us to three friends. It's simple, it'll make you feel great and there are no hidden fees.

Thank you to Ice Sculpture Philly for sponsoring the latest episode. They created the stunning centerpieces for the first Chef Radio + Delicious City Christmas Party.

On today's episode, we chat about our resolutions for 2023 (or lack thereof!), bumping into old friends on the street, we meet Eli's mom and learn about his top-secret Washington DC family.

A recap of the podcast holiday party comes with behind the scenes stories about Randy Rucker's crab dip and Michael Ferrari's caponata. Plus a collab between Huda and longtime DC supporters, Honeygrow. PA wines from WayVine you must try. Cheeses from Perrystead Dairy. We learn about Milk Tubes from Human Robot. And local cocktails from Dad's Hat, Boardroom Spirits, Revivalists Gin, Kiki Vodka, New Liberty Distilling, and Five Saints Distilling. Plus Good Water, a new comer to the scene that you should know about.

Best Bites come from one of the multiple "7 Feasts" that happened over the holidays and Honeysuckle Provisions, an easy favorite. But what's a year end episode without recapping a few highlights from 2022? Remember the Locally Grown Food & Music Series at Liberty Point? How about the year-long obsession with Cantina La Martina (have YOU been yet?!) Her Place. Fiorella. Waiting for new taco joints?! 2022 gave us a lot. The Phillies almost gave us a World Series and the Union almost brought home an MLS Championship. Neither did, and that's okay. But did the extra months of unexpected sports ruin Christmas? We discuss.

We also share the official details about the Delicious City Supper Club. Tickets are available NOW. You'll have to listen to find out where and when it's happening – or you can cheat and find the link in our Instagram profile to secure your tickets before they're gone.

Food News comes with a big restaurant announcement and a few ideas for NYE if you're still looking.

Enjoy this latest episode of Delicious City Philly, we enjoyed recording it for you. Happy New Year to everyone, and we look forward to hanging with you in 2023!

Raise your hand if you love the holidays! Because whether or not you do or don't doesn't matter because we have everything you need to know about what's going on in the Philadelphia food scene and where you need to be eating right now. Our guest today brings his incredible knowledge of Philadelphia restaurants to talk about where he's been eating as well as what it's like to celebrate Christmas in Belgium.

• Are you a reservation hoarder?
• How our guest immersed himself into a Philly dining scene
• The rapid evolution of Philadelphia's restaurants
• People who say, "I'm not ordering that, because I can make that at home"
• The beauty of a true Belgian Pommes Frites
• Our guest's "Perfect Day of Eating"
• A plethora of fantastic bites that everyone needs in their life
• Christmas cookies
• Marisa is shocked that funnel cakes don't exist everywhere
• Feast of the seven 7 non-fishes
• Pickled Herring
• A game-changing announcement

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!

We're back! After a small break in action, Marisa and Eli are back in the studio and fired up to talk about all things Philadelphia food.

Here's the rundown!

• Marisa's untapped bowling potential is finally found
• Record-breaking food drive with Camp Out For Hunger. Bravo Marisa!
• Are you a mac & cheese for Thanksgiving type of family?
• What the hell is up with butter boards?
• A Kensington made cheese makes it to the Best Bite segment
• The American dream comes true for this Ridge Avenue restaurant
• Philadelphia's most extraordinary Thai restaurant is reborn
• Bao's are the focus of this pod's Schill Report...very, very interesting
• A new Cambodian restaurant takes a South Philly space that has great juju.
• Philly's vegan OG's are opening a new restaurant! 🥕
• A well known restaurant/bar is been resurrected from the ashes
• Eli learns a little bit more about Marisa than he ever thought he would

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!