Archive for Local Restaurants
January 21, 2011 · Filed under Green Aisle Exclusives, Italian, Local Restaurants, Meat
Last week, we began a voracious pillage of Le Virtu‘s salumi room, World Headquarters of Massimo Conocchioli, the Master Butcher turning Country Time pork and other local meats into the best salumi we’ve had outside Italy. Massimo came to Philly from Colonnella in Abruzzo’s Teramo province, where the regional specialty is ventracina, a coarse, spreadable pork sausage veined with chili and orange zest. We’ve got it in stock, plus much more from Massimo and Le Virtu chef Joe Cicala, whose blood-red ragu del macellaio (“butcher’s ragu” with pork rib) is what Virtu co-owner Cathy Lee calls “the grandfather of Sunday gravy.” Full list after the jump.
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December 14, 2010 · Filed under Local Restaurants, Snacks
NBC’s The Feast posted this vid of our dude Mike Solo doing what he does best: hummus. Watch, drool, then come see us. Green Aisle was the first to bring Zahav’s hummus to retail, and we just received a big re-up of the dreamy tahina style featured in the Feast’s clip. A big upside to eating at home: No one stares when you start to moan.
November 9, 2010 · Filed under Local, Local Restaurants, Meat, Seafood
Photo: Gil Ortale
Just last week we started carrying some goods from Kennett Square grocery and cafe, Talula’s Table. Owner Aimee Olexy is the answer to the lush, locally smoked salmon we’ve been searching for. (That’s it in the shot above, courtesy of canele man and Olexy’s Headhouse neighbor, Gil Ortale.) We’ve got them in third-pound packs for $15, and are also testing Talula’s fully cooked fiery chorizo ($12) and curried lamb sausages ($15).
September 24, 2010 · Filed under Green Aisle Exclusives, Local Restaurants, Prepared Foods · Tagged Press
Photo: Philadelphia
This month, Philadelphia magazine features the city’s 18 best sandwiches, and our boys at American Meats & Provisions made the cut with their fennel-and-vodka-cured Sockeye salmon. Come see what the lemon-zested, thyme-and-caper-cream cheese-schmeared hype’s about; AM&P chef Tim McGinnis is on his way with a delivery.
July 28, 2010 · Filed under Green Aisle Exclusives, Local, Local Restaurants, Prepared Foods
Ask, Green Aislers, and you shall receive! Today we start selling sandwiches, and not just any sandwiches. These butcher paper-bundled beauties are coming from American Meat & Provisions, takeaway arm of chef (and former PW food scribe) Tim McGinnis’s upcoming South Street restaurant project. McG fills Ba Le baguettes with sustainably raised meats and fish he brines, smokes, cures himself, then kits them out with the likes of balsamic-strawberry mostarda, Maker’s Mark syrup, picholine olive tapenade and more.
Check out the full menu after the jump.
And did I mention we’re running samples all day?
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June 17, 2010 · Filed under Green Aisle Exclusives, Local Restaurants, Sweets
How good do these bad boys look? They’re from the cocoa-scented kitchen of our neighbor, Fond. Jessie Prawlucki, pastry wiz and better half of chef Lee Styer, is doing these ready-to-bake cookie rolls for us in haute flavors like the chocolate-cherry-and-candied almond you see below. Each roll is $10 and makes approximately 20 cookies.
May 27, 2010 · Filed under Green Aisle Exclusives, Local Restaurants, Uncategorized · Tagged Recipes
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“What do I do with [insert unusual Green Aisle product here]” is a question we’re often posed by our lovely customers. In this recurring blog feature, we tell you what up with all our weird edibles.
In this edition of WDIDW, we examine our (rapidly dwindling) stash of pickled kumquats. These sweet-skinned, tart-fleshed citrons come from La Vigne Organics in San Diego County, with our neighbor, chef Lee Styer of Fond BYOB, supplying the pickling skillz. His brine features chili, star anise and cinnamon, imbuing these kumquats with the essence of pho. We likey. And you will too. But what to do with a jar of these lip-puckering grenades? We like to snack on them solo, deploy them to an unsuspecting cheese plate or slice them for salads. Digital designer Danya Henninger, whom you may know as @phillydesign (or as the owner of the handsomest Akita in the town) visits us on the reg, and picked a pickled kumquat on her last trip. After the fruit was finito, she recycled the brine in a squash-and-pastrami stir fry. Peep Danya’s recipe after the jump.
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March 24, 2010 · Filed under Baking, Breakfast, Green Aisle Exclusives, Local Restaurants, Middle Eastern, Prepared Foods, Snacks, Sweets · Tagged Musings & News
Philly is going to be well-represented at the James Beard Awards this year, and how ’bout these apples, we stock goodies from two local nominees!
Photo: Jason Varney for Philadelphia Magazine
There’s heavenly pumpkin bread from Bibou, nominated in the category of Best New Restaurant, and
Photo: Mike Persico for Grub Street Philadelphia
from the Best Chef Mid-Atlantic category, Mike Solomonov, whose za’atar-dusted hummus tahina is so addictive you need serious willpower not to scarf the entire container in one sitting.
Congrats to all the local nominees!
February 13, 2010 · Filed under Breakfast, Green Aisle Exclusives, Local Restaurants, Meat · Tagged Press
Photo: Tastebuds and Tidbits
Blogger Julia of Tastebuds and Tidbits bought some Cafe Estelle bacon today and made this wicked-looking BLT. [Drool.] Currently, three packs left in stock. Come and get it.
February 12, 2010 · Filed under Breakfast, Green Aisle Exclusives, Local Restaurants, Meat
Meat has finally made its way to Green Aisle, courtesy of Marshall Green, chef/owner of sunny bruncher Cafe Estelle. For his bangin’ bacon, now available at our store, Green treats whole Berskhire pork bellies to weeklong cures in salt, pepper, raw sugar, allspice and maple syrup, then mesquite-smokes them tailgate-style in the Cafe’s parking lot before slicing (never too thick or too thin). Pick up a pack up today for the weekend. Your eggs deserve it. / $6 per half-pound
