Monthly Archives: January, 2009

Avalon Restaurant Introduces New Medium Plate Winter Menu

Cold Winter nights call for Savory Dishes, Great Wine and a Warm Fireplace. With your great bottle of wine, our warm and inviting wood burning fireplace and a delicious new winter menu you will not be disappointed! Join us during the week for our new Four Course Giro del Menu (“Tour of the Menu”) Enjoy Read More

Second Coming; Alison Barshak shines with another namesake eatery.

By Dawn E. Warden Chances are, if you’re into food and you’ve been in the area awhile, you’re familiar with redheaded culinary temptress Alison Barshak. Her rise to fame began when Neil Stein tapped her for landmark Center City eatery Striped Bass in 1994 after discovering her at Central Bar & Grill in Bryn Mawr. Read More

Kick off your Super bowl Sunday with Win Signature Restaurants.

Enjoy the big game at any one of our properties with drink specials, half priced domestic drafts, happy hour pricing on our sushi, small plates and wings. Or take the party “to go” with our sushi trays and platters. Either way, you’re on the winning team! Click here to make an online reservation for Teikoku Read More

Let Them Eat Cake

Tasty treats without the guilt.
By Dawn E. Warden at Main Line Today Magazine
A few weeks ago, I mentioned the banning of bake sales at a school in California. The fundraising fare was criminalized on the basis of fat, calorie and sugar content, enemies in the war against childhood obesity. Now I never was for the banning, because I stand by the belief that education is the greatest tool we can hand down to our children, whether it’s food or sex or drugs. What they don’t know will hurt them. Read More

As Always, Delicious Music at The Octoraro

This Saturday night, Jan, 31, we welcome West Chester’s Venomous (recent plays on the FUSE channel), along with Reality Stricken and Josten Swingling. $5 and 21+. On Feb. 14, the Pie Man Rodney Henry brings his Cold Cold Heartbreakers along with The Expotentials and mikingmihrab out to make you feel better about you. 21+ $5 Read More

So… What Are Ya Doin' Later? Wanna Pickle Stuff?

I’ve been in many-a-relationship but have still failed to discover a under appreciated couple activity. Pickling???? Take it from here BBQ Bachelor… Couples that Pickle Together article. The Final Dish: So, I’ve gotta know did it bring you and your special someone closer together BBQ B? Read More

How Dr. Zibbs Would Market Donuts

I’m curious what drugs this man intakes to develop the dreams he has. Not complaining… just curious. Here’s how he’d sell donuts in NYC. Click here for the link. Read More

That Blue Yak on Fig Newtons

OK. Four posts in one day – what are you gonna do? So I’m on the blog of Cooking Blind today and she’s mentioning figs. And when I hear the word fig, I think of the commercial for Fig Newtons. You know: For the rest click here. Read More

Jack Curtain's LIQUID DIET on Iron Hill's Belgium Comes to West Chester

What happens in West Chester stays in West Chester. Except for this part. I didn’t have all that many beers during roughly four hours spent at Iron Hill’s Belgium Comes to West Chester yesterday,having learned my lesson from last year’s embarrassing performance and, in the same spirit, I stayed with relatively low ABV brews to Read More

Qdoba comes to Chester County

By SARAH E. MORAN Special to the Local News WEST GOSHEN – An established restaurant chain has a new outpost in Chester County. Called Qdoba (pronounced Q-DO-ba), the restaurant is a Mexican grille offering a range of burritos, quesadillas, nachos, salads and salsas from mild to fiery for lunch and dinner. For the rest of Read More