1. Grill Toys We love our Great Outdoors Grill Co. Smoky Mountain Gas Smoker. It’s propane-based, so works great for weekend warriors that don’t have time to tend the fire all day and night, yet it still provides great smoky flavor.
Welcome to Round 2 of Philly vs. Main Line, where we take a highly-regarded food experience in Philadelphia and compare it to a similar offering out here in the burbs. Will it be worth the trip to the city, or are you better off staying close to home? Much like the cheesesteak, the Roast Pork […]
We’re not sure what to make of the fact that gourmet cupcake bakers are popping up everywhere, but we’re sure happy they came to our neck of the woods. Frazer’s Cupcakes Gourmet offers a wide variety of traditional and trendy flavors, all of which are excellent. Our favorites so far are the chocolate with vanilla […]
Though we were disappointed that Bruster’s Frazer branch closed, our current favorite thing is Handel’s Chocoholic Chunk ice cream — DARK chocolate ice cream with chunks of dark chocolate. This insanely decadent creation just might be the greatest ice cream flavor ever created.
Just a few years ago, having Lager and Guinness on draft in this area was considered to be a solid beer selection. Now, however, the Main Line boasts three of the best beer bars we’ve ever had the pleasure of visiting. The great beer bars are, in no particular order: Teresa’s Next Door (TND) in […]
I moved to this area from the Boston suburbs in 1990; when my first experience going “out for ice cream” in the area led to Dairy Queen, I was appauled. I asked one of the people I was with if there were any real ice cream shoppes around; he could only give me a puzzled […]
Did you come to Small Food looking for Main Line Dine? If so, an explanation may be in order. (If not, what are you waiting for? Explore the site!) For the past 10 years, I ran the website Main Line Dine. It started on a whim – when I tried to find information on a […]
One of my biggest gripes about the Philadelphia area in general is that there are not nearly enough places with outdoor seating (a few flimsy tables on the busy sidewalk hardly counts), and this applies even more so to the Main Line. This is especially irksome when visiting cities like Boston, Montreal, Toronto and Pittsburgh, […]
I was walking through the East Goshen Farmers Market, trying to figure out what to make for dinner, when I came across a small stand selling pastries that looked a bit too serious to be displayed in such a casual setting. After ascertaining that they were canelé (ca-neuh-lay), a French pastry from Bordeaux, I recalled […]
The MLRG crew recently visited Hawaii for some well-deserved R&R (and crashed a few great restaurants while we were in the area). This isn’t meant to be a complete dining guide for Hawaii — we just went for 8 days –just a recap of the places we visited and a brief opinion on each.