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Sixty Restaurants Ready to Fire up the Grills for 9th Annual Philadelphia Burger Brawl
The gloves are coming off and the grills are ready to be fired up! Over 60 restaurants from around the region will battle for burger bragging rights at the 9th Annual Philadelphia Burger Brawl presented by Jim Beam. Philadelphia’s largest food competition will move to the fall and take place on Sunday, September 15, 2019, at a new location at Navy Yard Philadelphia. Guests are invited to enjoy unlimited burger samples and vote for their favorite. Restaurants will also shake up their best cocktails and compete in the Killer Cocktail Competition. All proceeds go directly to The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia to support hardware…
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Philly Journalist Ernest Owens wins Best Magazine Reporting for “Dining While Black” for @PhillyMag!
We were a lively party of 13 people, devouring 13 courses of arguably the finest Southern Italian food in Philadelphia. Servers brought us family-style helpings of fried squid, octopus, roasted chicken and whole fish. They graced us with servings of gnocchi sardi, strascinati, fazzoletti, capunti, bucatini con pesto, and other pastas we’d never heard of — but that tasted so damn good nonetheless… READ MORE I JUST WON Best Magazine Reporting for "Dining While Black" for @PhillyMag! Thank you for every reader, activist, editor, fan, friend, and foe who talked about my award-winning work! This is my third consecutive @NABJ Salute to Excellence Award win in two years! 🏆 #NABJ19…
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Philly Magazine/ Foobooz – Philly Cooks RECAP
So if you follow me on social media at all, you will have noticed I created a mini campaign leading up to Foobooz | Philadelphia Magazine’s Philly Cooks event, which sold out! The event was held Wed 2/19 at The Marriott Hotel at 12th & Market Sts. I’m glad I got the opportunity to market this event as there are so many restaurants in Philly I know nothing about, many of which participated in Philly Cooks; this way, I got a chance to at least get a glimpse into their specialties and restaurant backgrounds. GM Ryan Fenton, Pennsylvania 6 For instance Pennsylvania 6, takes it’s name from the oldest telephone…
