after dinner sneeze

t says: I always hate it when bloggers don’t continuously post stuff.  And now I’m one of them.  Sorry!  g and I are in the middle of moving our residence (don’t worry – we’re still in Philly) – and we have a lot of adventures to talk about, so stay tuned!  We’ll be back online next week!

Sneak peak (in no particular order):

1) Bibou

2)  Talula’s Table Pop-up Restaurant

3)  20 Manning Grill

4)  Village Whiskey

5)  Miga

6)  Szechuan Hunan

7)  Chez Dr. P-I-M-P

8)  Sandy’s

9)  Mix

t says: We went to Percy Street for Father’s Day (we celebrated it a day early).  Our dad, sr, liked it once already, so we figured that bringing two dads and their respective families at the same time would be a nice challenge for Percy Street.  Because we’ve covered it already – here’s the short version …

6/2010, 5pm, Party of 8. Percy Street easily handled our party, seating us all at a long table near the windows.  Although the AC was on, they also opened the windows, so the restaurant was a little on the warm side.  I would have preferred it if they attempted to save the planet and their money and just close the windows!  Why do Philly restaurants insist on doing this?  If it’s hot enough that you need to turn on the air conditioning, then it’s too hot to open the windows!!  One, or the other … not both!

The food, on the other hand, was excellent.  We got the Lockhart for the table.  All the meat was tender and had delicious smokiness.  The pork belly was still phenomenal.  They also had a new spicy bbq sauce that was very good!  As before, the sides were solid, but not necessarily to-die-for.  Finally, the desserts were all great as well, with the majority of the table going for the berry cobbler and me going for the bing cherry ice cream sandwich.

You know, nothing brings together families like eating with your fingers and getting spicy sauce all over the place.  The fact that all the food was delicious, plentiful, and not horrendously expensive ($24 pp) was icing on the cake.  I sense that Percy Street has set a new bar for Father’s Day get-togethers.

t says: Top Chef DC debuted last night.  That Kevin dude from the Philly area (i.e. Jersey), has quite a resume – I’ll cheer for him.  That Angelo guy needs to be put in his place.  In any case, I hope you watch!  We’ll be watching So You Think You Can Dance on Wednesdays, but I’ll catch Top Chef on the re-run (it used to be on at 10pm – why’d they change a good thing?)

Talula’s Table is coming to Philly for three nights at the end of June courtesy of Stephen Starr.  Personally, I feel like now that Aimee doesn’t have Bryan holding her down (zing!), maybe she’s testing out whether she wants to come back to the city.  Of course, this is entirely speculative and I’d say has a 51% of being false, but we can dream, right?  In any case, I snagged some reservations, so we’ll see how it’s done!

Lastly … here we go … it’s Father’s Day.  g and I are going to test Percy Street BBQ and see if it can stand up to two of the least critical food critics ever … our dads!  It’ll be a double-family event (and celebrated a day early on Saturday).  I hope they don’t try to open the windows because it’s forecasted to be hot and humid.  Air conditioning, please!

t says: We went back to Cochon.  I took some pancake home.  I measured it.  Check it out (at the end of the post)

g says: It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for – Jose Garces’ new Cira Centre restaurant has been named!

JG Domestic. I dig it.