Manayunk.com Magazine - Winter 2012-2013

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How to Compose a Manayunk-Sourced Holiday Dinner

The Challenge and Satisfaction of Yanako When the Holiday Parties Are Over, An Alternative to the Gym

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Mark Your Calendar Ice is a central theme in the coming attractions, but in the best possible way

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Sneak A Peek Scenes from the fall’s most talked-about event

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Hidden River Yarns | 4358B Main Street Opened: September 12 Hours: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, and 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday Even if knitting has never skipped across your stream of conscious, give Lisa Kathryn Johnson a few minutes, and you’ll be daydreaming about designs for your fillory cowl. (It’s like a scarf.)

Hidden River Yarns sells fine hand-knitting and crocheting yarns, along with a host of related accessories, but that means little to the uneducated majority of us—until you indulge Johnson (or even just spend a few minutes browsing Hidden River’s Facebook page). Then the yarn takes on distinct personalities. Like the illegally-soft Chalet that’s made from alpaca and bamboo. And the acid-green and flamboyant-pink Maxima—neons will be hot this winter—from Manos del Uruguay, a nearly-50-year-old cooperative whose operation is entirely sustainable. Once you’re exposed to quality of this sort, you’ll want to do something with it. This, again, is where Johnson enters the picture. She hosts a “Knit Night,” a social gathering for seasoned knitters and novices alike, on Thursdays. And, classes are in the works. Now that you’ve been briefed, feel free, as Johnson says, to “get your knit on.” www.hiddenriveryarns.com

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Event decorator John Kevin Gallagher shares his essentials for a merry holiday party

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Gift Guide 20 highly-unique and hyper-local ideas for everyone on your shopping list

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Conversation With The Chef Moon Krapugthong talks Yanako, her most trying and satisfying endeavor

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Taste This A field guide to composing an entirely-Manayunk-sourced Holiday dinner

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Get Physical When the holidays are over, unconventional exercise, like Bikram Yoga, may be more likely to stick

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Small Business Saturday

Holidays In Manayunk

Manayunk On Ice

Sure, it’s a national occasion sponsored by a corporate giant (American Express), but Small Business Saturday was practically tailor-made for Manayunk, a neighborhood where 95 percent of the shops, galleries, restaurants, bakeries, cafés and various other businesses are independentlyowned and -operated. On Saturday November 24, they’ll be offering discounts and specials to thank us for the loyalty. Sort of feels like it should be the other way around.

It’s not enough anymore for Santa to simply make an appearance at the start of the holiday season. He’s graded now on style too, his level of authenticity as dependent upon the grandness of his entry as the bushiness of his snow-white beard. The holidays will officially launch in Manayunk on Satutrday December 1, when Santa will take a seat atop an ice throne carved by the renowned sculptor, Peter Slavin. That’s about as grand as it gets. In fact, it kind of puts the Macy’s Santa, the standard for Santas, to shame. On Saturday, December 1 there will be caroling and a tree-lighting ceremony in Canal View Park that evening, but let’s not lose sight of Santa in the hand-carved ice throne. Parents, no one would think less of you for slipping into line for a photo. You may sit on Santa’s lap, too. Just don’t cut ahead of the kids.

Come February, one of the last things you’ll want to see is more ice. But then, you’ve likely never seen it as it’ll be featured throughout the annual Manayunk On Ice weekend, February 8-10. For starters, there will be an “ice bonfire” on the opening night. (Seeing is believing.) That’ll give way to an ice sculpture tour, carving competitions and sculptures-in-the-making just about everywhere along Main Street. Not only will it make for a surreal-verging-on-magical scene, none of it will be a road hazard.

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When First Friday finally arrived in Manayunk a year ago, it felt overdue. With the intimate shops and galleries along Main Street, and the ones just off the beaten path, along Shurs and Green lanes and some of the other quaint side streets, it’s the kind of downtown that’s begging to be discovered during a casual stroll, display window by display window.

And when there are cozy restaurants to duck into at frequent intervals for a quick cocktail and a nosh, four hours can fly by rapidly. Follow the flags Nov. 2, Dec. 7, January 4 and Feb. 1, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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Day so much harder on ourselves—and, thus, our better halves—than it needs to be, especially when we have the kind of resources available in Manayunk at our disposal. Keep it simple: Buy a piece of jewelry. Shiny is good, sparkly is better. Gary Mann, Martin Pulli, Bendi, Orbit Art and Latitudes and Longitudes are all safe bets. Then, make a dinner reservation at one of the dimly-lit, well-appointed restaurants in town. In fact, do that now. You’re not the only one reading this.

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The Manayunk StrEAT Food Festival September 29

Philly food trucks, gourmet food vendors as well as farmers markets, lined Main Street for the 1st annual Manayunk StrEAT Food Festival.

Vendors and restaurants served up apple-inspired dishes while retailers decorated their storefronts in the apple theme. If you couldn’t make it by this year, join us on the last weekend of September in 2013.

Festival visitors got the chance to get their picture in front of our Manayunk.com sign with a giant fork!

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LIVE Hotels & Inns Crowne Plaza West Philadelphia X 4100 Presidential Blvd. 215-477-0200 Manayunk Terrace Bed & Breakfast Y 3937 Terrace St. 215-483-0109

Community & Non-Profit Friends & Pretzel Park Manayunk Sport & Social Club 4245 Main St. 215-696-7969 Roxborough Art Center 419 Green Ln. 215-482-3363 Manayunk-Roxborough Food Initiative North Light Community Center 175 Green Ln. 215-483-4800 Guild of Handweavers Support of Older Women Network 4100 Main St. Ste #200 215-487-3000

Professional & Creative Services Andropogon Landscape Architecture Q Aureus Media & Design Z 200 Krams Ave. Suite #3-3 215-621-6390 BKT Architecture BRR Architecture N 3 Rector St. Suite #1 215-606-3440 Canal Cleaners I Canine Clippers G Drexel Family Medicine Q 10 Shurs Ln. Suite #203 215-482-1234 8

East River Bank X 6137 Ridge Ave. 215-482-9401 Flat Rock Health R 4026 Main St. 267-437-3299 Hanson Associates, Inc. Q 4112 Station St. 215-487-7051 Intuitive Company N 3 Rector St. Suite #2 610-667-2492 J & J Computer Services M John E. McGovern & Associates O 4109 Main St. 215-483-5555 Liberty Insurance Services Q 10 Shurs Ln. Suite #104 215-829-1776 Loring Building Products A 4441 Main St. 215-483-7000 Lynece Austin Photography M Main Line Center For Bartending F Main Street Animal Clinic I 4331 Main St. 215-487-1037 Manayunk Cleaners H McCollum Insurance Agency Q 4160 Main St. 215-508-9000 Michael’s California Detailing D Northeast Parking System R Valet & Daily - Nights & Weekends 4000 Main St. Parkway Corporation I&K Monthly & Daily - 2 Cotton St., 101 Levering St., 112 Green Ln. Patricia Gorman & Associates J

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Performance Kitchens C ReVision Architecture G Robert Kreider - New York Life Insurance Safer Parking J Monthly & Daily - Indoor 4304 Cresson St. SERVPRO of Manayunk servpro.com 215-482-0800 SES Advisors Q 10 Shurs Ln. #102 215-508-1600 Susan Beard Photography Z The Multihull Company T 4100 Main St. Ste #404 215-508-2704 Top Tails J Venice Island Parking D Monthly & Daily - Main & Carson St. Venturi Scott Brown Associates N 4236 Main St. 215-403-0139 Walk This Way K William O’Brien - Manayunk Law Office H 4322 Main St. 215-487-3800

Real Estate & Housing Belvedere Business Group Canal House Apartments 4312 Main St. 215-483-9990 Century 21 Real Estate Jennifer Colahan—Re/Max 77 Rochelle Ave. 215-266-4549 Kershaw & Esposito Real Estate

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SHOP Apparel & Accessories Armen’s Custom Tailor Studio Bendi Jewelry Benjamin Lovell Shoes Gary Mann Jewelers 4349 Main St. 215-482-7051 Greene Street Consignment His Rags Her Riches Martin J. Pulli Jeweler 4337 Main St. 215-508-4610 Nicole Miller 4249 Main St. 215-930-0307 Octavio Miles Paula Hian Design ReMix 4355 Main St. 215-487-6590 Tag Denim 4358 Main St. 215-482-9656 The Attic

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Artesano Iron Works Gallery A 4446 Cresson St. 215-483-9273 Clairvoyant Monica H 4400 Main St. 215-508-1400 Fleur Flowers K Good Vibrationz Q 4107 Main St. 215-483-6900 Hidden River Yarns H 4358B Main St. 215-920-2603 Latitudes And Longitudes I 4325 Main St. 215-482-0417 Main Street Music B 4444 Main St. 215-487-7732 Manayunk Greenworks M 4235 Main St. 973-698-7057 Meadow Sweet Vintage H 4390 Main St. 215-756-4802 Mediterranean Accents M Next Level Wireless I Orbit Art Gallery K 4312 Main St. 215-508-6728 Revival Smith M 4223 Main St. 215-509-6550 Soft Illusions Fine Art Gallery M Spectrum Scientific F Sunrise In Tibet L The Little Apple G 4353 Main St. 267-335-4968 The Shops at the Consignment Marketplace T 4001 Main St. 215-298-9534 The Spiral Bookcase I 112 Cotton St. 215-482-0704 Vision of Tibet M White Stone Gallery M

Health & Beauty 5th Avenue Hair Studio Art + Science Salon & Spa 4259 Main St. 215-482-2242 Autumn Nails & Spa Beans Beauty Store & Salon 4405 Main St. 215-487-3333 Chinese Tai Chi Center Chop Shop Christie’s Nails & Tanning

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Cinderella Nails CVS Pharmacy Euphoria Nail Bar Fedora Salon & Spa Grimaldi’s Hair Kings Barber Le’ Pink Champu’ Lou Tallerico Rumi Tattoo Salon L’Etoile 4360 Main St. 215-483-2500 Style MedSpa 4352 Main St. 610-616-5140 Style of Man Tutis Barber Stylist

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Home Décor & Furnishings DIGS 4319 Main St. 215-482-0315 American Bazaar 4329 Main St. 610-755-5232 Carson Wood Furnishings Dwelling 4050 Main St. 215-487-7400 Furniture Lifestyle Furniture Workshop Nadeau Furniture Pompanoosuc Mills 4120 Main St. 215-508-3263 Pottery Barn Sleepy’s Mattress Store Three Potato Four TransAmerican Office Furniture 4001 Main St. 215-482-8550

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DINE Bars & Nightlife Ashes Cigar Bar Bayou Bar & Grill 4245 Main St. 215-482-2560 Beat Street Station Castle Roxx Café Cresson Inn Flat Rock Saloon J.D. McGillicuddy’s Kildare’s Irish Pub 4417 Main St. 215-482-7242 Lucky’s Last Chance 4421 Main St. 215-509-6005 Mad River 4100 Main St. 215-482-2666 Manayunk Tavern

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Markets & Specialty Agiato Bread Company Main Street Market 4345 Main St. 215-482-9500 Main Street Wine Cellar 4386 Main St. 267-385-7084 Palm Tree Market Sweet Elizabeth’s Cakes 4409 Main St. 267-331-8949 Village Spices Whirled Peace Wine & Spirits Shoppe

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Restaurants & Fine Dining Agiato Paninoteca & Enoteca 4359 Main St. 215-482-9700 Bella Trattoria Bourbon Blue 2 Rector St. 215-508-3360 Cactus Cantina 4243 Main St. 267-385-6249 Chabaa Thai Bistro 4371 Main St. 215-483-1979 Derek’s Restaurant 4411 Main St. 215-483-9400 Gemelli On Main 4348 Main St. 215-487-1230 Han Dynasty

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Sports & Fitness Awakenings Pole Fitness 4151 Main St. 610-348-7165 Bikram Yoga Manayunk 115 Levering St. 267-336-7872 Bryn Mawr Running Company 4320 Main St. 215-487-0220 Cadence Cycling & Multisport Goals Fitness Hotbox Yoga Human Zoom Bikes & Boards 4159 Main St. 215-487-7433 Joltin’ Jabs 4303 Main St. 215-482-4802 RowZone Indoor Rowing Studio Sweat Fitness The Wall Cycling Studio 100 Levering St. 267-336-7928 Triumph Motorcycles Yoga On Main

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Holiday Party Essentials They’ll come for the food and drink, but they’ll remember the unique touches.

With a client list that includes the University of Pennsylvania, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the American Heart Association, Manayunk floral and event designer John Kevin Gallagher (www.jkgfloral.com) has staged some of the most spectacular bashes Philadelphia’s seen in the last 25 years. Here, he shares a few essentials that he’ll be planning his own holiday party around.

(Which means that yours shouldn’t be without them either.)

Crystal Decanter | $55 JKG Design Studio at The Mill, 123 Leverington Avenue Is it a luxury item? Yes. But if you’re planning to serve top-shelf liquor, you may as well go for the full effect.

SALONG Vases | $5 to $10 A stylish tablesetting begins with an understated element like these white glass vases.

Bar Novelties | $5 to $36 The Little Apple, 4353 Main Street Cocktail shaker, $36; Toasted: The Civilized (And Uncivilized) Guide to Raising Your Glass, $18; three-ounce flask, $24; Save Water, Drink Beer bottle opener, $18; whiskey and bourbon rocks glasses, $12.

Your guests are going to congregate around the bar, so furnish them with lots of conversation starters.

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Stolichnaya Premium Vodka on ice | $20 Fine Wine & Good Spirits, 3720 Main Street Freeze a bottle of Stoli in a block of ice along with some seasonal fruit or flowers and serve it on a silver tray with small-stemmed cordial glasses.

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Holiday Gift Guide 20 ideas that cover everyone on your list: for her, for him, for kids, and even for your hostess

By Caitlin Maloney How much less stressful would your life be if you could park—or, even better, walk—to one place and shop for everyone on your list over the course of a couple leisurely hours? Let us answer for you: A lot. This is a guide to doing just that. Everything featured in this fourpage spread can be found in Manayunk. Consider it your first big step toward enjoying the holidays—a novel concept.

2 1 FOR HER 1. LOUIS VUITTON HANDBAG, $250, AND A DAVID YURMAN-INSPIRED NECKLACE, $78, REMIX BOUTIQUE, 4355 MAIN STREET, WWW.FACEBOOK. COM/REMIXMANAYUNK; 2. THE HOLIDAY PACKAGE AT EUPHORIA NAIL BAR (PEDICURE, GEL MANICURE AND EYEBROW WAX), $50, 4430 MAIN ST., WWW. EUPHORIANAILBAR.COM; 3. NICOLE MILLER CAMEL PEA COAT WITH FUR COLLAR, $420, NICOLE MILLER, 4249 MAIN ST., WWW.NICOLEMILLER.COM; 4. THE HOLIDAY PACKAGE AT THE WALL CYCLING STUDIO (A MONTH OF UNLIMITED CLASSES AND THE WALL CYCLING STUDIO CINCH PACK), $80, 100 LEVERING ST., WWW.THEWALLCYCLING.COM; 5. DESIGNER SUNGLASSES AND FRAMES, $295 TO $400, THE EYEGLASS WORKS, 4407 MAIN ST., WWW.THEEYEGLASSWORKS.COM.

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FOR HIM 1. ASICS GT2000 RUNNING SNEAKERS, $119, AND BALEGA X-ATHLETE HIDDEN SOCKS, $10, BRYN MAWR RUNNING COMPANY, 4320 MAIN ST., WWW. BRYNMAWRRUNNINGCO.COM; 2. ANONIMO HANDMADE, MILITARY-INSPIRED WRIST WATCHES, $2,500 AND UP, MARTIN PULLI FINE JEWELRY AND WATCHES, 4337 MAIN ST., WWW.MARTINPULLI.COM; 3. MITCHELL & NESS RETRO EAGLES HOODED SWEATSHIRT, $98 TO $155, AND EAGLES MESH BASEBALL HAT, $29, TAG DENIM, 4358 MAIN ST., WWW.TAGDENIM.COM; 4. NEW-RELEASE CDS, $10 TO $15, AND NEW AND CLASSIC VINYL RECORDS, $5 TO $30, MAIN STREET MUSIC, 4444 MAIN ST., WWW.MAINSTREETMUSICPA.COM; 5. 1964 LITHOGRAPH OF CONNIE MACK STADIUM BY CHARLES CUSHING, $350, ORBIT ART, 4312 MAIN ST., WWW.ORBITARTONLINE.WORDPRESS.COM; 6. TOKENS & ICONS CUFFLINKS MADE FROM SEATS AT CONNIE MACK STADIUM, $165

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Opening a restaurant a few blocks from its much-loved predecessor shouldn’t have been so hard. But, as it turns out, the food may be the only straightforward part of the process.

By Moon Krapugthong

As a chef and restaurateur without deep pockets or a Rolodex of angel investors, I climbed a lot of mountains to get Yanako off the ground. But, if there’s one thing that being a woman and a minority have taught me, it’s this: A strong will will carry you where you want to go. As it happens, I just wanted to go down Main Street.

It also helps to have a supportive husband and business partner and a staff who view your vision as their own. I’m very grateful for mine, because their roles were as large as my own in opening my third restaurant, Yanako (4255 Main Street, Manayunk), this summer after a year of delays.

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achievement. There were real-estate related snafus and budget woes aplenty. During the especially trying moments, that will I mentioned, felt more like a stubbornness. We pushed through in those particular hours if only because I’m not someone who doesn’t follow through. We started promoting Yanako a yearand-a-half beforehand. To not open was never a consideration.

How to open was, constantly.

When we were forced to cut back, my team delivered solutions that weren’t only practical, they were insightful and adventurous. At turns, they seemed to have a beat on what I wanted even KRAPUGTHONG WITH AGUS LUKITO, more than I did myself. It was a risk— what restaurateur in his right mind YANAKO’S HEAD CHEF.

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would entrust a venture in three green architecture grads? But, in retrospect, it was one of the best decisions I made along this long and winding way. The look and feel of Yanako is a better version of even what I envisioned: down-to-earth, but more minimalistic and polished.

Crafted out of monkey pod wood harvested from acacia trees, the sushi bar is the centerpiece of the warm, organic, outdoorfeeling interior that’s meant to be reminiscent of typical Japanese courtyards. My Philadelphia University grads are also responsible for the “living wall,” which is fast becoming the restaurant’s central talking piece.

Ultimately, I want the food, of course, to be what the buzz is all about. Our head chef, Agus Lukito, put his savory spin on the tried-and-true spicy tuna. But our sushi bar runs far deeper than that: live oysters, uni, scallops, Japanese red-eye snapper—the freshest fish in its purest form.

Since the opening in July, I’ve been growing my own horizons.

Japanese and Thai cuisines differ in subtlety and presentation.

Thai cooking is spicy and aromatic, and it focuses on balancing sour, sweet, salty and bitter tastes. Japanese dishes are humbler.

They’re made by combining rice or noodles with soup, adding fish, meat, vegetables or tofu, and flavoring it with dashi, miso and soy sauce. There’s a simple beauty, as I’m learning, to authentic Japanese meals—and desserts.

Moon Krapugthong is the owner of Chabaa Thai Bistro (www.chabbathai.com) and Yanako (www.facebook.com/TheYanako), both located in Manayunk.

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The Manayunk-Sourced Holiday Meal From the appetizer to the after-dinner coffee, a field guide to shopping for the top-shelf ingredients on and around Main Street.

By Elyse Castillo Holiday dinners, maybe the most celebrated meals of the year, shouldn’t be exempt from the rapidly-growing awareness of local, seasonal foods. If anything, they’re the ideal gateway, particularly for those of us who live in and around Manayunk.

It’s a neighborhood rich in meticulous chefs and connoisseurs, which makes piecing together a holiday dinner not only an

appetizing pursuit, but a pleasantly-convenient one.

As the owner of Chew Philly, which specializes in walking culinary tours of Manayunk, I work closely with the most coveted restaurants, delis, bakeries and specialty shops. What follows is my guide to shopping for the quintessential Holiday dinner, sourced entirely from the best of what’s around Manayunk.

ABOVE: ANGELO & JOSEPHINE’S, SWEET ELIZABETH’S, VOLO COFFEEHOUSE 22

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HEFFEWEIZENS / WHITE ALES citrus - spiced - sweet - refreshing

STOUTS

Stone IPA

hearty - fully roasted - creamy

CALIFORNIA, 6.9%

Bell’s Kalamazoo Stout

Ayinger Brau Weiss (17 oz)

Stone Ruination IPA

GERMANY, 5%

MICHIGAN, 6%

Blue Moon

Guinness Irish Stout

Franziskaner Hefe-Weissbier (16 oz)

Left Hand Milk Stout

Hoegaarden

Sam Adams Thirteenth Hour (25.4 oz)

COLORADO, 5.4%

CALIFORNIA, 7.7%

GERMANY, 5%

PENNSYLVANIA, 7.5%

ENGLAND, 5%

Ommegang Witte (25 oz)

Yards Love Stout

NEW YORK, 5.1%

PENNSYLVANIA, 5%

Weihenstephaner

Youngs Double Chocolate Stout

GERMANY, 5.4%

UNITED KINGDOM, 5.2%

INDIA PALE ALES (IPA)

AMBER / RED ALES

floral - hoppy bitterness - aromatic

toasted malt - caramel - balanced

Avery Maharaja (10oz)

Duchesse De Bourgogne BELGIUM, 6.2%

COLORADO, 10.3%

Redbridge

Bell’s Two Hearted Ale

MISSOURI, 4%

MICHIGAN, 7%

Smithwicks Irish Ale

Boulder Mojo IPA COLORADO, 7.2%

IRELAND, 4.5%

Dogfish Head 60min IPA

BROWN ALES malt - sweet - fruity - nutty

DELAWARE, 6%

Dogfish Head Indian Brown Ale Hebrew Messiah Nut Brown Ale Samuel Smiths Nut Brown Ale (18.7 oz) UNITED KINGDOM, 5.2%

Boulder Sweaty Betty

COLORADO, 5.9%

Innis & Gunn Oak Aged Ale UNITED KINGDOM, 6.6%

Leffe Blonde

BELGIUM, 6.6%

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale CALIFORNIA, 5.6%

Southern Tier Hop Sun

NEW YORK, 5.1%

Victory Helios (22 oz)

PENNSYLVANIA, 7.5%

rich - smoke - coffee - chocolate

Fullers London Porter ENGLAND, 5.4%

Smuttynose Robust Porter

Stone Oaked Arrogant Bastard CALIFORNIA, 7.2%

Victory Otto in Oak (25 oz)

PENNSYLVANIA, 8.1%

BELGIAN STRONG ALES complex - fruity - spiced

Allagash Dubbel (25 oz) MAINE, 7%

Chimay Gran Reserve (Blue) BELGIUM, 8.0%

Chimay Premiere (Red) BELGIUM, 8.0%

Delirium Tremens

Firestone Double Jack (22 oz)

BELGIUM, 8.5%

Great Divide Hercules Double IPA COLORADO, 10%

Great Divide Titan IPA

COLORADO, 7.1%

Green Flash Imperial IPA (22 oz)

CALIFORNIA, 9.4%

Green Flash Le Freak (22 oz)

CALIFORNIA, 9.2%

Green Flash West Coast IPA CALIFORNIA, 7.3%

Lagunitas Daytime IPA CALIFORNIA, 4.6%

Lagunitas Hop Stoopid (22 oz)

CALIFORNIA, 8%

Lagunitas Maximus IPA CALIFORNIA, 8.2%

Samuel Smith’s India Ale (18.7oz)

UNITED KINGDOM, 5%

Sixpoint Bengali Tiger NEW YORK, 6.4%

PORTERS

full bodied - bold - flavorful

BELGIUM, 8.5%

CALIFORNIA, 9.5%

CALIFORNIA, 5.6%

STRONG ALES

Dogfish Head 90min IPA

DELAWARE, 9%

DELAWARE, 7.2%

Victory Hopdevil Ale

PENNSYLVANIA, 6.7%

Samuel Smiths Oatmeal Stout (18.7 oz)

WISCONSIN, 4.9%

PALE ALES hop & malt balance - floral - aromatic

PENNSYLVANIA, 9.0%

MASSACHUSETTS, 9%

Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat

ENGLAND, 5%

Weyerbacher Double Simcoe IPA

COLORADO, 5.2%

BELGIUM, 4.9%

Wells Bombardier

Troegs Perpetual IPA

IRELAND, 4.2%

Sixpoint Resin

Duvel

La Fin du Monde CANADA, 9%

La Trappe Bockbier (25 oz) NETHERLANDS, 7%

Lost Abbey Avant Garde (25 oz) CALIFORNIA, 7%

Ommegang Abbey Ale NEW YORK, 8.5%

Ommegang Biere D’Hougoumont (25 oz) NEW YORK, 7.3%

Ommegang Rare VOS NEW YORK, 6.5%

Ommegang Three Philosophers NEW YORK, 9.8%

Russian River Damnation CALIFORNIA, 7.75%

Sam Adams New World Tripel (25.4 oz) MASSACHUSETTS, 10%

Unibroue Eau Benite (25 oz) QUEBEC, 7.7%

Unibroue Maudite (25 oz)

QUEBEC, 8%

Victory Golden Monkey

NEW YORK, 9.1%

Stone Cali-Belgique (22 oz)

PENNSYLVANIA, 9.5%

CALIFORNIA, 6.9%

NEW HAMPSHIRE, 5.7%

4417 Main St.

Manayunk, PA

215-482-7242

www.kildarespub.com

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Experience Manayunk’s Only

Authentic Indian Cuisine

Top 5 Indian Restaurant, Philly Hot List

BYOB

Dine-In

Takeout

@LaxmisIndian @LaxmisManayunk

Delivery (215) 508-2120

4425 Main Street, Manayunk

www.LaxmisIndian.com

Let’s start with the gourmet cheese, meat and olive platter from Angelo & Josephine’s Gourmet Foods Market (www. angeloandjosephines.com), a third-generation-owned shop that’s held down the same location in Manayunk since the twenties. The platter is a wonderland of traditional Italian appetizers: pepperoni and sopressata, lightly-smoked sharp provolone, aged cheddar, an olive blend, roasted red peppers and marinated artichokes and mushrooms.

On to the dinner itself. When your guests sit down around the table, make sure there are oreganata within easy reach. It’s a thinly-rolled dough filled with Italian spices, oils and broccoli, spinach or pepperoni. Marchiano’s Bakery (www.marchianos bakery.com) makes an incomparable version of the Philadelphia specialty. Through the fall and winter, there’s typically a line of patient, loyal customers hanging out the door, which, on occasion, has included the random Eagle and Phillies player. Frank Sinatra and The Temptations were customers, too, once upon a time.

The McCann Farm (www.themccannsfarm.com) is one of our go-tos for seasonal vegetables. It’s located in Monroeville, NJ, about a half-hour away from Manayunk, but it stages the Gorgas Park Farmers Market, located on Ridge Avenue at Acorn Street, Fridays, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Shop there for your sweet potatoes, kale, apples and, especially, its much-loved apple butter.

As for the featured attraction—the turkey, of course—Meadow Run Farm (www.sweetstemfarm.com), in Lititz, PA, is becoming a household name among discerning city dwellers who prefer their pork, lamb and beef humanely-raised and pasture-fed thanks to its year-round buying club, which delivers monthly to four locations across Philadelphia. It also does free-range turkey.

Just make sure you get your order in on time.

Once you reach dessert, you and your guests may be on the verge of slipping into a coma, but don’t start skimping now. A bold coffee is in order. Hit Volo Coffeehouse (www.volocoffee house.com), which serves beans by the Philadelphia-founded La Colombe Torrefaction, and grab a bag or two of the Corsica blend. It delivers an uncommonly full-bodied flavor and a long-lasting coffee finish.

And, to go with that caffeine rush: cupcakes from Sweet Elizabeth’s Cakes (www.sweetelizabethscakes.com). Yeah, it’s a little unconventional, but no one will dare bark a complaint. Go with the pumpkin. They’re topped with cinnamon buttercream and candied pecans. If you need a safety net, pick up a classic apple pie too. Or the pumpkin pie, which is made with toasted meringue. Come to think of it, better to play it safe and go with cupcakes and pies.

The true beauty of sourcing your Holiday dinner completely from neighborhood shops and markets is that you’re supporting the independent businesses that help keep Manayunk colorful and vibrant. Full stomach, clear conscience. Enjoy your holidays.

Elyse Castillo is the owner of the Manayunk-based Chew Philly Food Tours (www.phillyfoodtours.com). For questions about her picks and ideas for others, email her at info@phillyfoodtours.com.

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Turning Up the Heat

Before you half-heartedly drag yourself back to the gym in January, strike a pose. By Schuyler Ferguson

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When fall’s nip in the air becomes winter’s bite, we tend to retreat inside, slow down, eat more and, in turn, bulk up. The holidays only compound matters. With lots of opportunity to eat, drink and be merry, there’s bound to be one sour hangover, literally and figuratively, come January.

Naturally, the question then becomes, how do you reverse the trend? While the masses swarm the health clubs to renew their memberships, consider an emerging, alternative practice that’s capable of quickly undoing the holiday excess: Bikram Yoga.

Weight loss, though, is really just one aspect of its potential. Bikram Yoga revitalizes the entire mind-body complex by reducing stress and lethargy and boosting energy and wakefulness. As you learn to steady your mind, concentrate and meditate, the most significant benefits begin to manifest: a greater success in your undertakings, a deeper satisfaction in your overall life and a more consistent mental peace.

But, as yoga students of all kinds are aware, it’s difficult to achieve such balance while plagued by physical concerns. So, Bikram Yoga begins with bringing the body 26

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into a harmonious state in order to build a firm foundation. Shedding weight is part of that process, and it’s done in several ways.

First, it heats up muscles, enabling them to burn fat faster and, ultimately, more efficiently. Bikram Yoga is typically practiced in a studio heated to 105 degrees, making it possible to burn upward of 700 calories in a single class.

The sweating also helps dispense excess water weight, which diminishes puffy skin. Even more importantly, it’ll remove toxins from the bloodstream.

On a deeper level, Bikram Yoga postures harmonize the major organs and gland systems. Many, such as Supta Pawan Muktasana (Wind Removing) and Ardha Kurmasana (Half-Tortoise), deeply massage and stretch the intestines, which produces serotonin that, in turn, promotes peristalsis and nutrient absorption. We’re all familiar with the expression, “You are what you eat.” In truth, you are what you can assimilate. You’ll be able to eat less food and do more with it because your body will no longer be wasting bio-energy, or prana, trying to digest so many calories.

Other postures eliminate stagnation in the glands and the lymphatic system.

Sluggishness in the latter is behind a host of weight-related disorders. The backward-bending Ardha Chandrasana (Half-Moon) and Dhanruasana (Bow) massage and stimulate the pancreas, feeding it fresh blood. The action is supported by the regulation of the thyroid and parathyroid glands through postures such as Dandayamana Bidhaktapada Paschimottanasana (Standing Separate Leg Head to Knee) and Sasangasana (Rabbit). Together, the pancreas and thyroid and parathyroid glands control metabolic function and hormones, including insulin and glucagon. In nourishing them, digestion becomes more efficient, the blood sugar stabilizes and overall energy increases.

(Counterclockwise from the top) Schuyler and Ammie Ferguson and Suzanne Musetto are the owners of Bikram Yoga Manayunk (www. facebook.com/BikramYogaManayunk).

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