http://www.foodzings.com food blog, philadelphia, restaurant reviews, eating, philly, dining out, cooking, recipes Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:07:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.foodzings.com/2011/11/grand-lux-cafe.html http://www.foodzings.com/2011/11/grand-lux-cafe.html#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:21:39 +0000 foodzings http://www.foodzings.com/?p=11592 Our last team dinner was at Grand Lux Cafe. I’d never heard of this place before, but it’s a basically a different version of the Cheesecake Factory, with a different name. It actually quite looks similar, but with less emphasis on cheesecake. Since Philadelphia is always the last to get chain restaurants, it didn’t surprise [...]
]]> http://www.foodzings.com/2011/11/grand-lux-cafe.html/feed 2 http://www.foodzings.com/2011/11/wasabi-house.html http://www.foodzings.com/2011/11/wasabi-house.html#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:50:49 +0000 foodzings http://www.foodzings.com/?p=11527 There are a thousand and one sushi choices in center city. So we pretty much just ended up at Wasabi House, just by picking a neighborhood and roaming around. The dining room is small, and it really seems to be mostly a take-out joint. Their normal house salad thing with the ginger dressing is HUGE! [...]
]]> http://www.foodzings.com/2011/11/wasabi-house.html/feed 0 http://www.foodzings.com/2011/10/little-fish-tasting-menu.html http://www.foodzings.com/2011/10/little-fish-tasting-menu.html#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:51:52 +0000 foodzings http://www.foodzings.com/?p=11463 I had just gone to Little Fish not too long ago, but I loved it so much I wanted to try their sunday night 5-course tasting. Here is the menu for that night on the adorable chalkboard. I like this handwriting. It’s slightly unsure what to do with itself. As usual, this place was packed. [...]
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]]> http://www.foodzings.com/2011/10/bye-bye-to-bindi.html/feed 1 http://www.foodzings.com/2011/08/little-fish.html http://www.foodzings.com/2011/08/little-fish.html#comments Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:50:59 +0000 foodzings http://www.foodzings.com/?p=11092 I’d never gotten to try little fish at their old location, but have been wanting to go to the new one for awhile. So finally, I went! Oh, this was right after my camera met a wet death, so unfortunately, all these photos are going to be a terribly lit and grainy cell phone camera [...]
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