Food : Featured Stories

It started as any other hashtag does but it wound up being more than a trending topic thanks to Young Involved Philadelphia, whose Why I Love Philly party captured the spirit of those who've made it here.

In an effort to increase effective communications, employee satisfaction and profits, the sustainability focused design/build firm is becoming the city's first employee-owned co-op.

Face it Philly, we're not as healthy as we'd like to be. Center City native Clint Randall's job is to help make the connection between city planning and public health, putting our region at the forefront of a growing trend.

Cocktails aren't just booze and mixer in Philly anymore, and our curious journos braved the winter cold to find out who's mixing what and where. It's called The Lost Weekend, but in the end, it's what we found that matters.

They started with just three restaurants. Now this gang of twenty-something entrepreneurs serve 10,000 choosy, hungry Main Liners by delivering meals from 30 eateries from Bala Cynwyd to Villanova.

A larger, better facility is part of a $218M project that will become a worldwide model, is expected to strengthen the region's food industry and eventually employ up to 1,500.

A pizza blog gives South Street's Little Italy Pizza some traditional Neapolitan love.

The Food Network puts the Kitchen Stadium spotlight on Philly for what should be a blockbuster battle between our own Iron Chef Jose Garces and challenger Michael Solomonov, who will host a viewing party at his Percy Street Barbecue on Sunday at 10 p.m.

Michael Gruber and John Levitties are raking in awards and antiques and creating art galleries and restaurants, including a Marc Vetri eatery at a former Broad St. Buick showroom.

Even as temperatures dipped to more seasonally appropriate numbers, Frankford Avenue in Fishtown was a hotspot for First Friday, offering up tango lessons, country-western 45s, and free kittens.

The Reverend Michael Alan's work at Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction can taste sweet or look old and slightly evil. Whichever you prefer, you should put his gingerbread house workshop on your holiday to-do list.

A record number of applicants have produced a particularly impressive crop of Green Fund recipients, including a project that will install electric charging stations for car-sharing vehicles, announced today by the University of Pennsylvania

A report released this morning by Center City District reveals an abundance of encouraging data about downtown Philadelphia's retail growth. Nothing was more telling, however, than the numbers that back the city's growing reputation as a food destination.

You might not know what a canele is, but you should know it's much more than just a scrumptious French pastry to Gil Ortale, and it represents much of what the Philly food industry veteran holds dear.

Veteran vegetarian chef Mark Mebus and graphic designer Ryan Moylan, who met as punk-rocking teenagers in NYC, have combined to open Philly's first vegan pizzeria in Society Hill, and the result is surprisingly stellar.