Posts Tagged ‘Talula’s Daily’
Lightning Round!
t says: My phone has sooo many photos. And while I wish I could have posted on each one, I know it just isn’t going to happen. So get ready for another lightning round!!
Nom nom ramen has opened up an outpost in University City. And you know what, despite our lack of enthusiasm when the original Center City location opened up (over 2 years ago!), this spot is actually pretty good! I think you just have to go in with the mindset: “I’m here for a quick lunch”, and alluvasudden, their ramen really hits the spot. Does that mean I have lower expectations at lunch? Maybe. But really, I suspect there is an element of Nom Nom stepping up their game – their broth is just so much more flavorful. Be prepared if you order to go: they will pack it in separate containers for you to assemble at your leisure.
Nestled deep in Vineland is an eatery called Chestnut Diner. They have a pretty amazing pancake with nutella, grama cracker, banana … and it’s pretty amazing. Fancy? No, but it sure hit the spot – and you know we’ll be back with this amount of sugar …
We held a farewell ceremony the other day … a farewell to summer. While some people hold barbecues, g and I do something a little different. You see, there is a dish that we can only make outside due to how much it reeks, and that is kimchi jige. At the risk of patting myself on the back: it was damn delicious. If you have access to kimchi, shove it in the fridge for at least 2 weeks (sealed), and make yourself some dinner … outside …
I didn’t actually have this one, but it looked awesome. Talula’s Daily looks like it’s still killing it out there – we’ve gotta do dinner there again.
And, in our ode to kp (who we’ll be visiting in November), here’s some southern inspiration in chocolate form.
the “secret supper club”
t says: a, v, g and I are huge Aimee Olexy fanboys. We can’t help it. Be it the Table or Garden, we just love to go. And now: Talula’s Daily. We came, we saw, we ate, and we were happy …
the menu for the evening sounded reasonable – nothing too crazy-or-exciting – just a pasta dinner, right? trust me – it’s more!
the squid was served on a single plate and it was lovely – nicely done and coupled with pickled watermelon rind and those super-hot-peppers. the aioli was a little bland (we were hoping it’d be a little more herb-y), but I think that we were pleasant surprised overall with the homey-yet-better-than-an-Italian-restaurant appeal. a solid start!
this salad rocked my socks. seriously – why would I ever eat a salad with un-grilled vegetables ever again? every single component had the perfect texture (forkable, but with enough bite so you weren’t just eating mush) and that corn on the bottom was so vivid in flavor. i really think this salad ruined salads for me …
now we thought the pasta was going to be the main event … but we were wrong – the meatballs were! we were alotted so many meatballs that i cried uncle well before the food ran out. they were soft in texture, with great flavors of pig and cow, and then covered in a pasta sauce which was made with ORANGE PEEL. It was like a summer-kissed tomato sauce – very unique. Now, I can see how traditionalists might poo-poo this kind of tinkering with tomatoes, but even g, the through-and-through-South-Jersey-“my-mom-makes-the-best-gravy”-Italian liked it! So mad props to the chef on this one!
the cheese melted our faces off … like, we entered the restaurant with faces, but we left with nothing more than a few specks of blackened skin clinging on a singed skull … i can’t remember what the cheeses were (my temporal lobes were also damaged in the aforementioned face-melting incident), but they were all so delicious, with unique personalities of flavor and texture that i don’t care. Sure, there was dessert, which included a lovely home-made-lookin’ crisp and ice cream, and sure, it was also a wonderful close to the meal, typical of a meal at neighboring Talula’s Garden, but they had us at the cheese …
several new openings on our side of center city!
t says: So g and I are really pumped with the new additions to the neighborhood:
Fitler Dining Room is opening!
And on the other side of the city, Talula’s Daily is coming!
With so many new options, I’m sure we’ll be broke in no time!
after dinner sneeze 