Opening RED FARM STEAK This 28-day pop-up branch of Red Farm, the Chinese restaurant upstairs owned by Ed Schoenfeld and Joe Ng, serves Asian appetizers, like bacon egg roll and vegetable tempura, plus steaks, lamb and seafood.
To be followed by Snake River Farm steak, Japanese matsutake mushrooms and 500 kilos of Guittard bittersweet chocolate, all washed down with Napa Valley reserve cabernet sauvignon and chardonnay and three types of champagne, Thienot brut, Thienot rosé, Thienot vintage.
From the Snake River Farms Flank Steak to the Madeira Beach American Red Snapper, Executive Chef Brandon McGlamery serves the freshest seasonal ingredients, pairing each of his entrees with a selection from the wine list.
I know that Cut's Ari Rosenson was working in the kitchen this night, so the Creekstone Farms Prime Sirloin Steak ($55) and the Snake River Farms Wagyu Sirloin ($85) were the equivalent of the earthy, delicious beef served at that prime steak house.
BEST DISHES August tomatoes; peas 'n' lettuce; endive salad; farm burger; hanger steak; French fries.
Products for sale in the large new shop on the five-acre farm include ham steaks, spiral sliced hams, old-fashioned daisy hams, pork loin, bone-in, bone-out hams, loin chops, bratwurst, Italian sausage, kielbasa and incredibly tasty smoked bacon (at $4.09 per pound, with almost no fat).
Entrees other than steak include farm-raised chicken, whole roasted fish and grilled yellowfin tuna with soy sauce and wasabi aioli.
In Philadelphia, there are Asian, Latino, steak, seafood, farm-to-table, comfort food and Italian places, and even an English gastro pub that has Notting Hill written all over it.
A server one night rattled off the provenance of just about every scrap in the kitchen, from the rib steak (Creekstone Farms) to the truffles (a forager in France).
"What we found in this economy was that a lot of our customers started to trade down in their purchases," says Anderson Chung, marketing director at D'Agostino Supermarkets in Larchmont, N.Y., substituting chop meat for shell steak and farm-raised salmon for the wild variety.
What to order: The Hungry Bear: smoked ham steak and farm-egg fritter with a sweet corn griddlecake and Dr Pepper redeye gravy.
