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Ten Minute Meals: A Poor Kid’s Potato
What you’ll need: A regular potato, or a sweet potato if you’re feeling extra healthy Cottage cheese Hot sauce Crunch—corn nuts or chips Pretzels (trust me, ah–mazing) 1. Pop the potato in your...
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Ashton’s Cigar Bar
A week ago Ashton’s opened at 1522 Walnut Street. Let’s just say it ain’t your daddy’s cigar bar. Enforcing a semi–strict business casual dress code, this is the cigar bar of the future. Ashton’s...
View ArticleDrunk, High, Sober: Penne
Poor Penne. It might be the most tubular pasta, but as a restaurant, it falls kind of flat. Luckily for this smoke-free establishment, 34th Street Magazine is incapable of ignoring a pun. Let’s dig Inn...
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Taste Test: Brownies vs. Cupcakes
At Street, we believe that the best journalism is investigative. So we conducted a hard–hitting exploration into the dopest desserts: the classic pot brownie and red velvet cupcakes for variation....
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Drink of the Week: Bahia Breeze
Don’t let the beginning of midterms get you down—take a mini beach vacation by making yourself a Bahia Breeze. If you have enough of these you can fully forget all of the things you managed to learn...
View ArticlePoint, Counterpoint: Chipotle’s “The Scarecrow”
Point: Thought–provoking Chipotle’s Pixar–like ad “The Scarecrow” is arguably aimed at boosting revenue, and its chilling depiction of industrialized food production makes steps in the right...
View ArticleQ&A: Campus Executive Chef and Executive Chef at Hill Dining Café
Street talked to Bon Appetit’s Christopher Smith, campus executive chef, and Donald Stauffer, executive chef at Hill Dining Café, to learn more about the sustainability efforts of Penn’s dining...
View ArticleStreet Music & Film Eds Weigh in on “Scarecrow”
Without mentioning the word ‘Chipotle,’ Chipotle’s ad speaks for itself. Fiona Apple’s vocal rendition of “Pure Imagination” overlaps a slow-paced sequence of a beautifully rendered animation...
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Drink of the Week: The Beergarita
Forget the “liquor before beer, you’re in the clear” mentality! Liquor and beer, that’s how you really get it done. Beer with a margarita might sound questionable, but once you try it you’ll be...
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Making Mead with Mike and Will
Street: What inspired you to start brewing mead? MB: I’ve been reading a lot of Icelandic literature, a lot of the Viking sagas and epics, and it just seemed like a pretty cool thing to do. WZ: It was...
View ArticleToasty Fall Cocktails
Cinnamon Toast Cocktail We all love Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but try out the grown–up version, since you’re older than eight: Add 6 oz of hot apple cider and 1 ¼ oz of Captain Morgan Original Spiced Rum...
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Philly’s Fall Desserts
Magpie Artisan Pie Boutique (1622 South St.)—Pear Ginger Crumb Pie You can get a generously sized slice for $6, or an entire pie for $38. It’ll be money well spent. Bonus: Magpie now delivers. This...
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Review: BrazBQ
Brazilian bursts into Drexel’s already impressive food truck menagerie. Sarah Tse Say what you want about Drexel—but damn are its food trucks good. Penn isn’t exactly a food truck desert. Mssrs. Bui...
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Review: Fitler Dining Room
A high-minded menu manages to keep it real. The Fitler Dining Room, chef Robert Marzinsky’s most recent endeavor, will find itself among Philadelphia’s most prized corner bistros. Two full walls of...
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Review: Happy Noodle Bar
No booze and mediocre Chinese eats at this bar. Happy Noodle Bar feels less like a Chinese restaurant and more like what I imagine a nightclub would feel like if it didn’t have a liquor license and if...
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Review: Noord
Philly’s only Scandinavian joint outside Ikea is a welcome guest Sarah Tse “I’m really jonesing for some Scandinavian food.” Probably not something you or any of your friends say—ever. And for good...
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Review: Kermit’s Bake Shoppe
South Philly bakeshop slings pizza and pastries. On a gloomy Tuesday around 6:00 p.m., we stepped into Kermit’s Bake Shoppe, the pizzeria–meets–patisserie, ready to indulge in a post–midterm meal....
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Review: Gennaro’s
This top-notch pie puts the cheese on bottom. Michael Gu Gennaro’s Tomato Pie proves that time machines do exist. Open the door to Gennaro’s, walk through the curtains, and you’re instantly transported...
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Review: Little Nonna’s
Grandma’s kitchen packs a tasty punch Sarah Tse Inside Little Nonna’s I found a dimly lit dining room with photos and antiques hanging on its walls, as if in a grandmother’s kitchen. While Nonna’s...
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Review: Pizzeria Vetri
Marc Vetri moves from prix fixe to pizzeria. Sarah Tse Pizzeria Vetri, the newest venture from highly–acclaimed chef and Philadelphia native Marc Vetri, occupies a small, prime location in the trendy...
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