• Anthony Bourdain on Philly: “”My first impression was that W.C. Fields was right — the place was f***ing closed.” Yeah… and Cleveland isn’t?
• New restaurants for the new year: Chestnut Hill’s getting a Cuban restaurant and Washington Square is getting a Kosher Israeli restaurant.
• Checking out Beneluxx.
• Down Home Diner’s catfish po’boy is pretty damn good.
• Citypaper wants Bourdain so much that they made an imaginary itinerary.
• We don’t know who would actually want to eat an English pork pie. They’re kind of gross. It also appears there are none in Philly.