The beautiful Victorian building that will become Amy’s on Main in Ambler continues to give Chef Amy Lutz agida! Construction and zoning issues have caused another delay on the project originally scheduled to open last October. The expected opening date has been pushed back until mid-April.
Could this be the star that steals the show?
If you follow us on Twitter, by now you have had a peek at the burger that has stolen the hearts of the early visitors to Conshohocken’s newest gastropub. The creation of Executive Chef Jason Lipnicki, The StoneRose Burger features the very same beef the now infamous, Square Burger.
Jason credit’s Geechee Rice Girl’s Chef/Owner Valerie Erwin with teaching him the technique behind The StoneRose’s signature StoneRose Burger, which has been a best seller since the restaurant opened just a week ago. The burger is seared on a salt bed in a dry, hot, cast iron skillet allowing the salt to cook into the burger creating a salty exterior without over saturating the Premium Gold Angus.
Sauteed chopped Cipollini Onions are combined with diced Bacon to create a hearty relish of sorts, offering the burger intense flavor, while making it easier to eat than a standard burger which may have strips of bacon and large strands of sauteed onions. The cheese is Cooper Sharp. The burger tops an Artisan Challah Roll from Wild Flower Bakery. Fries are thick cut and made with Kennebec Potatoes. They are served with a savory mayo based remoulade. The StoneRose Burger and Fries $11.
Since this is the 2ND post regarding a burger in the past 2 weeks. We feel a disclaimer is in order! It is a coincidence that in the brief month that our blog has been live that The Whiskey King and The StoneRose Burger would garner so much attention. While burgers are an important category amongst our 160+ search features, and we do review them for our site, we also respect the experts in this city! In no way are we trying to be The Burger Baroness, or Burgatory!
We look forward to reading many more blog posts on this burger and see if others agree that this is a mighty tasty burger!
Preview the entire StoneRose menu here.
The Grand Opening is scheduled for tomorrow night!
Mt Airy’s Wine Thief Bistro will be the setting for an upcoming episode of
MTV’s Is She Really Going Out With Him?
The show, that Philebrity reported was casting in the area in September, will shoot at Wine Thief Bistro on Germantown Avenue on Thursday morning.
Thinking about going to see if you can get your face on camera? An extra maybe?
Seared Mako "Pita" at Alison Two
Bar Food. What image comes to mind? Buffalo wings, burgers, many fried options are all things that immediately resonate with me when you say, “bar food.”
Fortunately for the consumer, the economic climate, as well as, the growing number of sophisticated diners, have driven many great restaurants to create extraordinarily attractive bar menus, happy hour specials and concentrate greater focus on beer and cocktail lists. In the city, even the once seemingly exclusive Le Bar Lyonnais recently started a $5.00 cocktail promotion for happy hour. Lacroix in The Rittenhouse Hotel opened Bar 210 with happy hour specials to draw diners to the restaurant.
But at Alison Two in Fort Washington, the bar, as well as, the bar menu have been a central focus since opening nearly 1 year ago. Lead by Beverage Manager Tom Pittakas, the bar at Alison Two serves over 60 beers from small breweries, in addition to a house-made Ginger Beer, has an extensive wine list from small purveyors and one of the best cocktail menus anywhere. The juices and mixers for the cocktails are made fresh, in-house, daily, setting their drinks apart from all others in terms of flavor complexity and freshness.
Alison Barshak, the highly celebrated chef, best known in Philadelphia for putting the now shuttered Striped Bass on the map, has put equal emphasis on the food served at the bar. Count on a dozen options on the “daily-printed” menu, which changes frequently in order to employ the most seasonally available ingredients from local purveyors. Two recent standouts were the Seared Mako “pita” made with phyllo, spinach, pine nuts and feta, and the Calamari Steak Milanese served with Sauce Gribiche.
Here’s the punchline….During happy hour and a half Monday through Friday from 5:00-6:30PM, the entire bar menu is 50% off. That means $5.00 to $5.50 on the highest priced menu options, for the most part. That is what we call recession proof!
