Carpenters’ Hall adds monthly food tastings to after-hours whisky tours

PhillyVoice - Food & Drink 2/10 2:49A PhillyVoice Media Events

Carpenters’ Hall is adding a culinary twist to its after-hours whisky tours this winter and spring, pairing Scotch with pickles, oysters, cheese and chocolate inside the 18th-century building where the First Continental Congress met.

Geno's Steaks continues expansion outside Philly with new shop opening next month in Baltimore

PhillyVoice - Food & Drink 2/6 6:39A Michaela Althouse

Geno's Steaks will continue its expansion outside Philly and open a new shop in Baltimore on March 5. The move to Maryland comes months after the cheesesteak restaurant opened a location in Hampton, Virginia.

Philly Chocolate, Wine & Whiskey Festival brings unlimited tastings in January

PhillyVoice - Food & Drink 12/31 4:22A PhillyVoice Media Events

The Philly Chocolate, Wine & Whiskey Festival returns Saturday, Jan. 24, bringing a full day of tastings at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center.

Distillery to open in stables of Gilded Age mansion on Elkins Estate in Montgomery County

PhillyVoice - Food & Drink 12/15 6:43A Michael Tanenbaum

Elkins Estate, a 42-acre Gilded Age manor in Montgomery County, will open a new distillery and tasting room at the property's Chelten House in the summer. Morgan Stillhouse will produce vodka, rye, bourbon and gin.

Amateur chefs vie to get their homemade dishes on the menu of Recipe Philly

PhillyVoice - Food & Drink 12/1 5:49A Molly McVety

Recipe Philly, a Center City restaurant, is planning a reality TV show contest ahead of its spring opening and hundreds of amateur chefs lined up to audition to get their homemade dishes on the menu.

Emmett named to Esquire's best new restaurants list

PhillyVoice - Food & Drink 12/1 5:34A Michaela Althouse

Emmett, a Levantine restaurant in Olde Kensington, was named to Esquire's 2025 list of best new restaurants in the United States. It serves a rotating menu of Mediterranean dishes.

No pigs were harmed in the making of this bacon

PhillyVoice - Food & Drink 11/25 7:55P Matt Simon, Grist

A company is growing real pork fat from donated pig cells in bioreactors, then mixing it with plants to create bacon, meatballs and salami that taste like meat.

Don't want to cook this Thanksgiving? These Philly restaurants are open

PhillyVoice - Food & Drink 11/21 9:59P Molly McVety

These Philadelphia restaurants are serving Thanksgiving meals this year, from prix-fixe dinners at Bastia and Urban Farmer to a Thai twist at Kalaya.

Which Philly restaurants could earn Michelin stars and how did other U.S. cities do in their...

PhillyVoice - Food & Drink 11/17 6:51A Michaela Althouse

On Tuesday, officials will unveil the 2025 Northeast Cities edition of the Michelin Guide, which will include Philadelphia restaurants for the first time. Here's how other U.S. cities fared in their first year and some Philly contenders.

Herr's holds chip contest for America's 250th birthday, featuring flavors that embody freedom,...

PhillyVoice - Food & Drink 11/12 2:03A Michaela Althouse

Herr's is hosting a chip flavor contest in honor of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Voters can choose from one of three flavors in the liberty, unity and freedom categories.