My friend and former colleague, Brenda, and I recently got together for one of our periodic lunches. While I usually pick the restaurant, she asked if I’d be interested in checking out a Delaware County Italian restaurant that is a relatively short drive from both of us and I agreed after checking out their menuContinue reading “A Delightful Italian Lunch in Delco”
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Sunday Gravy with Short Ribs and Italian Sausage
Note: This dish and the process described here can be found in recipe form at the bottom of the post. My initial plan for this week’s post was to write about my visit to North Jersey to eat at one of the last remaining tiki-bar-Polynesian-style Chinese restaurants in the eastern United States. Unfortunately, when weContinue reading “Sunday Gravy with Short Ribs and Italian Sausage”
Viva Italia: Dinner and a Concert
Although it’s been a while, I’ve written a handful of posts with a classical music theme. This one is on a combination of music and food, both with an Italian accent. Many of the earliest classical concerts I attended between the mid 80s and early 90s, including the first one in 1985, were led byContinue reading “Viva Italia: Dinner and a Concert”
Johnny’s Back and Hasn’t Lost a Step
One of my favorite places to post on since starting this blog has been Johnny Paisano’s of Springfield, PA. It was a charming little restaurant less than five minutes from where I live that served excellent cheesesteaks and a wide array of other sandwiches and entrees. My wife and I used to eat there periodicallyContinue reading “Johnny’s Back and Hasn’t Lost a Step”
An Unlikely Place for an Elite Cheesesteak
Alessio’s Seafood Grille of Warrington, PA, doesn’t look anything like the sandwich shops and pizzerias I visit for the vast majority of the cheesesteaks I post about here. I’ve noticed it plenty of times while driving by – in part because it stands out from the crowd on busy Route 611 by having an unusuallyContinue reading “An Unlikely Place for an Elite Cheesesteak”
Awakening to the Chicken Cutlet
“Don’t sleep on their chicken cutlet.” That’s a suggestion that’s been made to me about a few places in and around Philadelphia when discussing cheesesteaks or roast pork sandwiches on Facebook. But sleep on it I have. Chicken cutlets are probably the third most popular long-roll sandwich to come out of South Philly among theContinue reading “Awakening to the Chicken Cutlet”
Back on the Roast Pork Italiano Trail
After a couple weeks without one, I was starting to feel just a touch of pressure to get back to my survey of the Philly region’s Roast Pork Italiano sandwiches. South Philadelphia is likely where the sandwich was created and is still home to more of them than any other part of the city orContinue reading “Back on the Roast Pork Italiano Trail”
Two Great Sandwiches – One Great Place
It’s always exhilarating to be blown away by a sandwich that I’m trying for the first time. Saturday’s lunch outing with my wife and in-laws was a true rarity in that I sampled two amazing sandwiches, both at Giacomo’s Italian Market in Quakertown, PA, which is in northwestern Bucks County – placing it just insideContinue reading “Two Great Sandwiches – One Great Place”
Red Sausage Gravy
I’ve posted several times about my Sunday or red gravy. I tend to crave it, as well as the process of making it, when the weather starts to turn cooler in the fall. The types of meat I use to flavor the gravy sometimes depends on what I have in the freezer. That happened toContinue reading “Red Sausage Gravy”
Birthday Lunch at Melt
My regular readers know I tend to write about classic old restaurants that don’t come close to passing for fine dining. Melt, which sits in the Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley, just south of the Lehigh Valley, is a break from that norm. It isn’t a chain, but it’s the sort of large, corporately-owned restaurantContinue reading “Birthday Lunch at Melt”
BZ Maestro Eats 