New Year's Eve In Philly With Greenhouses, Igloos, Garces, Delice, Positano Coast And More

New Year's Eve In Philly With Greenhouses, Igloos, Garces, Delice, Positano Coast And More

Philadelphia and Main Line restaurants will close out 2020 with special dinners, feasts, kid-friendly day-time events, brunches and more. Highlights include Garces Trading Company offering food from Amada, The Olde Bar, Village Whiskey, and J.G. Domestic. Glu Hospitality will be having the Kids Countdown to New Year's with Cinderella at the Igloos, and other offerings at Germantown Garden Grill and Germantown Garden. New Years Eve Dining will also take place at Positano Coast, Harper’s Garden, and Delice et Chocolat. Also, we have many, if not most clients, open for New Year's Day brunch regular menu for January 1st including The Victoria Freehouse.

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Twelve Festive and Socially Distanced Dining Experiences at Philadelphia Restaurants

Twelve Festive and Socially Distanced Dining Experiences at Philadelphia Restaurants

Philadelphia restaurants are finding new ways to adjust to the closure of indoor dining, pivot between now and the end of the year, celebrate the holidays and create new Christmas traditions. Below please find 12+ dining experiences around Philadelphia that present festive and socially-distant opportunities to celebrate the season with you and your family/ immediate household. Big names like Garces, Bridget Foys, Glu, Wine Dive and more present a number of exciting events with special guests like Santa, Ice Princess, Cinderella, Beauty Princess and others can be found below.

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Pivot Coffee And Soupery Grand Opens In South Philly Next to Hawthornes

Pivot Coffee And Soupery Grand Opens In South Philly Next to Hawthornes

Restaurateurs Chris Fetfatzes and Heather Annechiarico announce the grand opening of Pivot Coffee and Soupery at 738 S. 11th Street, this Thursday, December 17, 2020, at 7:00am sharp. The husband-wife duo behind popular concepts Hawthornes, Wine Dive, Tio Flores, Quick Sip, The Cambridge and soon-to-open Grace and Proper, present their first-ever full service coffee and espresso shop, soupery, bake shop and wine shop - all rolled into one. With indoor dining closed at the moment, and it being months before Hawthornes would see indoor dining back to full 100% capacity, the couple looked ahead and wanted to Pivot with their new coffee shop - which comes complete with a new pastry chef, an expanded streetery, Igloo bubble outdoor dining, and a full special menu for Christmas and the holidays.

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Garces Trading Company Returns With All Your Favorite Dishes

Garces Trading Company Returns With All Your Favorite Dishes

Garces Trading Company will officially make a grand return and debut this week as a brand-new, advanced ghost kitchen, restaurant hub and online marketplace. Fans of Chef Jose Garces will be able to order, for the first time ever, their favorite dishes from iconic restaurant brands such as Amada, The Olde Bar and Village Whiskey - all in one order and from one location for pick-up, take-out and delivery. When indoor dining shut down city restaurants this past week, Garces has consolidated all restaurant kitchens into one giant ghost kitchen and hub that will now operate out of The Olde Bar in Old City District. Patrons will be able to order, with one click of a button, their Garces favorites like The Olde Bar's Crab Cake, Jeff's Fried Chicken, and Crab and Corn Chowder; Amada's Pulpo a la Gallega, Albondigas and Jamon Serrano; and Village Whiskey's Village Burger, Baby Back Ribs, Golden Hot Wings and the new Bing Crosby Burger of the Month.

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Philadelphia Restaurants Offer Christmas Dinner, Seven Fishes & Hanukkah Meals to Go

Philadelphia Restaurants Offer Christmas Dinner, Seven Fishes & Hanukkah Meals to Go

After a record-breaking Thanksgiving (to-go), restaurants in Philadelphia and the suburbs are gearing up for a record Christmas Eve/ Day with Hanukkah, Seven Fish specials, meal kits, pre-orders, outdoor dining, baked goods and other things. Below, please find meals to go, kits and Christmas-food specials from 30+ of our restaurant and neighborhood clients.

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Ardmore Celebrates The Holidays With Rally For Restaurants, Tree Lighting, And Santa Claus

Ardmore Celebrates The Holidays With Rally For Restaurants, Tree Lighting, And Santa Claus

Celebrate holidays on the Main Line with a month of festive offerings in Downtown Ardmore starting on Black Friday and running through December 23rd. The downtown business community kicks off the holidays with the Ardmore Holiday Kick-Off and Tree Lighting on Black Friday, November 27th, at 5:00pm. Ardmore Initiative, Ardmore Business Association and sponsor PECO will live stream Santa's arrival and the lighting of the Christmas Tree with special guest Cinderella by A Dash of Magic. The thirty minute program will feature a surprise entrance for Jolly Ole St. Nick himself, songs by everyone's favorite princess Cinderella presented by A Dash of Magic Events, and remarks by local dignitaries. The Holiday Rally for Ardmore Restaurants and Retail will then start on Small Business Saturday, November 28th and run through December 23rd.

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Historic Holidays Return to Old City with Tree Lighting, Menorah, and Small Business Saturday

Historic Holidays Return to Old City with Tree Lighting, Menorah, and Small Business Saturday

Historic Holidays return to Old City from Small Business Saturday, on Saturday, November 28th through New Year's Eve, on Thursday, December 31st. Festivities will kick-off on Small Business Saturday with the debut of a brand-new holiday tradition, Old City's Window Decorating Contest at 16+ small businesses located around the historic streets of Old City. For those shopping for everyone on Santa's lists, look for Small Business Saturday deals at retailers and boutiques throughout the neighborhood. On Sunday, November 29th, support your local non-profit museums by shopping during Museum Store Sunday at Independence Seaport Museum, National Constitution Center and the National Museum of American Jewish History.

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Christmas Village In Baltimore Postpones In-Person Season At Inner Harbor Until 2021

Christmas Village In Baltimore Postpones In-Person Season At Inner Harbor Until 2021

It is with deep regret that Christmas Village in Baltimore, the authentic open-air and indoor German-style Christmas market at the Inner Harbor, is announcing its postponement of the 2020 in-person market due to the ongoing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizers are looking forward to returning to Charm City and West Shore Park with an ever-expanding concept and new highlights in November 2021. Select vendors will come together on the event’s website and offer their goods virtually this year.

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Lokal Artisan Foods And Doylestown Brewing Company Debut New French Toast Bites Ale

Lokal Artisan Foods And Doylestown Brewing Company Debut New French Toast Bites Ale

French Toast Bites by Lokal Artisan Foods announces the debut of the first-ever French Toast Bites Ale in partnership with Doylestown Brewing Company. The anytime ale is is 5.5% ABV and is a sweet, smooth and toasted dessert brew that pairs great with breakfast, brunch, dinner or dessert. It will be available in 16 ounce cans in four-packs, as well as in a limited run of kegs and sixtelles through distributor Muller, Inc. For McGill, the debut of the new beer makes her the first black female in the state of Pennsylvania with her own signature beer. The debut of the new beer is also part of the expansive pivot story for the black-owned, female-owned small and local business operating out of the Philadelphia market.

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