Spamps heads in a fresh new direction!

Late last week Spamps‘ owners Mike and Marcie Spampinato announced the addition of Chef Jerry Donohue who is bringing with him an updated, fresh, and more cohesive menu. While Spamps has been known largely for their “happening bar,” and fantastic sushi, their dining room menu has never quite come together to define a true identity for the restaurant.

With the introduction of a new kitchen crew lead by Chef Donohue, the cuisine has received a complete facelift. Replacing heavy dishes and a vast menu of mix and match cuisines, is an updated menu utilizing the hottest trends from many upscale restaurants. As it should be, the menu capitalizes on the Asian theme complementing the sushi bar.

Included in the new menu are pork belly sliders, lettuce wraps, shrimp dumplings, tempuras, Asian mussels, and a Brussel sprout appetizer with bacon and siracha sauce. New entrees include a Thai coconut stew, sweet and sour skate, green tea soba noodles, as well as, sake bomb scallops.

View the complete dinner menu

Along with the spring season comes a fresh, new sushi menu as well. As always seasonal rolls are added with each changing season. The weather is fantastic and The Grotto is now open. Dine outdoors, enjoy the new cuisine and watch March Madness…. what could be better?

Spamps

16 East 1st Avenue

Conshohocken, PA 19428

610-825-4155

The Chef of Flanigan’s Boathouse prepares crab cakes at the event

Conshohocken Restaurant Week begins on June 14th and is sponsored by The Londonbury at Millennium Apartments, on Washington Street in Conshohocken. On Wednesday night the apartment complex held a party to kick-off the event. There are 18 restaurants participating in the event including the ones featured here.

The party was held to showcase the new apartment building and included a tour of one and two bedroom apartments, which I believe, but don’t quote me, start at $1700 per month for a one bedroom apartment. My obvious concentration was on the food! It was a fun night with lots of good eats and a great way to meet area residents and sample the local, expanding restaurant scene.

A guest sampling crab cakes and quesadillas from The Boathouse

Ribs from The Boathouse

Quesadillas from The Boathouse

The ladies from Trattoria Totaro

Erin from Trattoria Totaro serves a chicken and tortellini dish to a guest

Blackfish served chilled carrot soup

Jason Mase, The Chef from The StoneRose serves short ribs over mac and cheese

The StoneRose crew Brian Pieri, Jim Maglio and Jason Mase also served limoncello and Prosecco

Spamps served lots of sushi

Beautiful sushi from Spamps ~ photo by Kevin Tierney

Kevin was far more diligent than myself, as well as, knowing where to actually find The Londonbury, (I was on the other side on the bridge for 20 minutes), so he was able to get a picture of the full dish of beautiful, fresh sushi. I, on the other hand, arrived after hungry guests had devoured many of the delicious rolls.

Sushi plate from Spamps that was enjoyed by many

Guests relaxing with drinks in The Club Room at The Londonbury

The Game Room

The Club Room seating off of the pool

A great time was had by all!

Since I arrived late and left early, to be in place for the face-off of Game 6 of The Stanley Cup Finals, I did not get pictures of everything, and not everything that was tasty, photographed well, so since the pictures might take away from the taste, I chose not to post some.

The food from Baggataway Tavern looked amazing as did the pizzas from Pasta Via! Andrew Totaro, from Totaro’s on Hector Street, not to be confused with Trattoria Totaro, which is on Spring Mill Avenue was upstairs, as was Pepperoncini. Gypsy Saloon served a lobster mac and cheese dish which, again I did not think would photograph well. Other participants that I missed, or were not in attendance are (in not particular order):

Spring Mill Cafe

Fayette Street Grille

The Great American Pub

Stella Blu

Guppy’s

Spampinato’s

Theresa’s

Menus for restaurant week are $20 -$35 pp depending on the restaurant and can be found by clicking The Restaurant Week Link.

Sex and the City Two Opens on Thursday

The Girls are back on the big screen this Thursday! Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda are partying and so should we!  Celebrate the opening of the movie the same way the girls would, with cocktails and sushi!

Spamp’s in Conshohocken

is hosting a Sex and the City Two Cocktail Party!

When: Thursday, May 27th

Time: All day and night

What: Sex and the City Two “Girl’s Night Out” Party

Come before the show for cocktails and return for the “after party,” featuring

Pear and Pomegranate Cosmopolitans for just $6

And Sushi! Lots and lots of sushi!

And we know Samantha lovessssssssss Sushi!

Samantha covered in sushi from Sex and the City The Movie

Sex and the City Two is playing nearby at The Regal Cinema

Showtimes: 12:00, 12:30, 1:00, 3:20, 3:50, 4:20, 6:45, 7:15, 7:45, 10:10

South Ocean has opening in the Acme Shopping Center on Bethlehem Pike in Flourtown, PA. Early reviews are mostly positive. While the sashimi pictured above was sliced too thick for our liking, the yellow tail roll, on the other hand was fresh and flavorful.

The sushi rolls passed our “comp pricing standards’ of $6-$8 per roll for classic rolls, such as spicy tuna and unagi rolls.

The tempura (this plate was half eaten before the picture could be snapped) was light and crisp. We highly recommend, as this is a perfect execution.

This is the So Special Duck. It is crispy boneless duck over top of jumbo shrimp, chicken, roasted pork and beef cooked in house special Peking sauce with vegetables. My children are addicted to this dish and have ordered it multiple times in the 3 weeks that the restaurant has been open. As some of our toughest critics, I would say, that is a big statement on this dish. Although, I will warn that the crispy skin is far less crispy in a take out order than when dining in the restaurant.

Our full review will be forthcoming. This restaurant has received reviews in comments of previous blogs.