Taylor finds veggie dogs in Charleston

Mac And Cheese Review

Every Wednesday, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what’s simmering.

- Charleston is the location of Taylor’s first experience with a veggie dog from a cart. The Mac & Cheese blogger had to get all the way down south before she could mangle a coleslaw-covered dog! Clearly an opportunity is there to serve Philily’s herds of herbivores under a cruelty-free umbrella.

-Bar Ferdinand owner Owen Kamihara can rock a space from conceptualization to punch list, swing a hammer lookin’ better than Ty Pennington, and lure the lady food bloggers of Philly to his new Tex-Mex border bar El Camino Real with one tilt of his product-free bedhead. E from Foodaphilia, Jess and Jaime of Fries With That Shake, and indomitable Beer Lass Suzy Woods get all fluttery over ECR’s mac and cheese in a dangerously cute cast iron mini-pot.

-Guest writer Jeff Gonick takes over the mic for Dish + Bitch, where the usual crew heads over to the irony-gone-wrong lunch choice of Uncle Jimmy Eats Philadelphia blogger/interviewee Jessica James Wilson, the Hard Rock Café. Gonick’s pants-wettingly funny account of lunch at the first restaurant he has ever felt too cool for is well worth a read. Prime excerpt: “I’m pretty sure the executive chef is the only rock star that’s involved with the Hard Rock Café. It’s probably Keith Richards, who after 40 years of non-stop booze and coke and cigarettes, has the palette [sic] of a dead camel. He probably approved the menu during a blacked out stupor thinking he was signing the deed a house he was trying to trade for a slave-ship full of Bolivian Marching Powder and South American indentured servants.”

- Kelly White makes a few friendly recommendations on the subject of lunch on her blog, Living on the Vedge. Paesano’s on West Girard makes the cut, as well as the hushy Citadelle at 16th and Pine. Meal Ticket humbly adds on the finely crafted sandwiches at Quince on East Girard Ave., especially the eponymous quince jam, walnut and manchego combination.

-I’ll Eat You blogger Lauren sheds some new lights on an old flame, Amada. Did you know Amada means “beloved”? I didn’t. Lauren also proclaims her love by ignoring the “decor, location or anything like that. I would still go to Amada if it were located in an abandoned warehouse, in an angry bear’s den, or under the sea.” Lucky we don’t have to go to such lengths to get some of our beloved teeny happy plates at this icon of Catalan cuisine.

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