Results tagged “sandwiches”

Last year, we told you what we like to do with our Thanksgiving leftovers. Others take the leftover turkey and make soup or pot pies. Some eat hot turkey sandwiches for weeks. We'd imagine that the week after Thanksgiving isn't a good time at establishments like Bassett's Original Turkey or Boston Market, because, let's face it, it'll be at least a few weeks before anyone is ready for turkey again. But we've gotta eat something...

Paris Hilton, former celebutante/party girl/homemade video star and now alcoholic elephant advocate (thanks to Jim, Ross, and Sarah for that one) is releasing a new perfume called CAN CAN. (Get it? Because that's something they do in Paris. But then, so is this.) To celebrate, the formerly constipated jailbird will be at Macy's Center City today – and you can meet her! All you have to do is be one of the first 200...

I may have slammed the sushi at Reading Terminal Market, but RTM is actually just about my favorite place to grab lunch in Center City. The possibilities are endless: last week, Ross and I had some pretty yummy crepes at Profi's Creperie; yesterday, we split a tasty panini at Mezze. You can't go wrong with the sandwiches at DiNic's or Salumeria, and once in a while, the daily special at 12th Street Cantina makes me feel like home.

We at the Gothamist network would like to express our heartfelt wishes to the people of Minnesota in the days after their tragic bridge collapse. We're not trying to discount the severity of the accident by making note of it in opposition to our usual -Ist lightheartedness – we just wanted to take a moment and recognize those affected last week.

It's the lunch rush, and you're part of it. You're standing around the counter at Wawa or some other sandwich counter with two dozen other people, all waiting for your respective sandwiches. It seems like it's taking forever, and they're not calling the numbers in order, so God only knows how long it will be before you'll be biting into your toasted Italian hoagie. Your stomach is yelling at you and your head feels like it's about to explode out of frustration. It's enough to make even the most polite amongst us want to snap. But don't let it get to you! There's still room for manners. Good manners, even.

So you thought that Starbucks was finished with its quest for total domination in the land of hot caffeinated beverages? Maybe they are. They are not, however, finished with their domination of early morning (and even mid-afternoon) munchies.

Dear José (a.k.a. skeevy International House Café Passage Guy):

...And I’m thinking the emergency room isn’t it.

Little-known fact: There are a hell of a lot of blogs in Philly. While we here try to hold our own, there are a lot of good stories out there just waiting to be read from around the Philly blog community. Here are a few that popped up throughout the week. Go ahead, check it out, we won't get jealous. Just come on back here when you're good and ready. We'll have cookies and soy milk waiting.*

Valentine's Day is only a few days away, and we here across the Gothamist network wanted to express would like to tell you, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we love you, our readers. Don't let it get to your heads, though. There are plenty of things we love, you included. Just be glad you're not amongst the things we hate.

We went to the party on Friday, but Elvis Presley's birthday is actually today. He would have been seventy-two.

No matter how perfectly you try to calculate the amount of turkey-per-person, you always end up with leftovers. And there's really only so much leftover turkey, or so many turkey sandwiches, that a person can eat. You're stuck for ideas, but you don't want all that food to go to waste. What follows is Ma Phillyist's surefire way to make sure that the leftover bird gets eaten—and that people will like it. (The recipe works really well with chicken, too, if you decide to make it again but don't want to mess with the turkey.)

You might expect good pizza from a place claiming to be "real Italian." But most restaurants that use a place in the name to make you think you're getting authentic quality usually aren't any good. Jake’s Real Italian Pizza & Grill is no exception to this rule.

Phillyist loves pizza and is always on the lookout for a good slice. This is the first in an ongoing series of pizza reviews in and around the city.

As fall settles in and another calendar page gets turned, thoughts turn from bbq's and vacations to holidays and the realization that '06 is coming to an end. With all that going on, with change in the air, we wonder what is it the -ists ponder?

How much do we love our Wawa? Enough to catch the eye of the New York Times Magazine, which wrote up our “Convenience Cult” in yesterday's edition. They cited the “I Love Wawa” group on Myspace, Livejournal.com’s “We Love Wawa” group, and a study out of Ohio State University about customer satisfaction at Wawa.

Musician Bill Ricchini

Passover ended five days ago, and you've still got most of a box of matzoh sitting in your kitchen. Now that you're back to real bread, you don't want to make matzoh PB&J or matzoh tuna sandwiches. But matzoh doesn't have any preservatives in it, so you've got to do something about that box on your countertop.

Maybe it's us, but the idea of buttered crustless white bread topped with cucumbers has never been appealing. But we do love cucumbers, and occasionally, we've been known to have tea parties, so clearly, some kind of cucumber sandwich is in order at times. This Mediterranean spin on the teatime favorite is sure to please any guests who, like us, have an aversion to buttered cucumber slices.

Phillyist is trying to imagine the scene yesterday at the Kentucky Fried Chicken on South Street -- PETA members, all indignant about KFC's treatment of pre-slaughter chickens, protesting at the fast food joint while patrons eat their post-slaughter chicken and cast a wary glance and a cynical eye roll in PETA's direction. No doubt, the level of discourse would have been far more entertaining if the PETA had staged the protest on a busy Saturday night or, let's say, at a KFC in deep South Philly.

There is a relatively new Middle-Eastern grill called Jaba at 2nd and Chestnut, right next to Eulogy and roughly catty-corner from Rotten Ralph's.

From The Phillyist 'What We Would Have Posted Had We Existed A Few Years Ago' Files:

Are you watching your calories? Your carbs? Your saturated fats? No? Good, because in that case Phillyist has the lunchtime restaurant for you. Fellini Cafe has opened up a relatively new location in Center City, and they are serving up monster portions of tasty pastas and sandwiches to the hungry or to those who want to make $6 cover a generous meal for two.

We’re sitting there now, at the Twenty Two Gallery Café. Our laptops are plugged into the conveniently placed power strip and we’re surfing the web on the free wireless internet. The temperature is blissfully cool, in sharp contrast to the 90 degrees plus outside, the heat wave that just won’t quit. It’s Saturday afternoon, and there’s only one other customer.