Let it Snow
I discovered the last time that it snowed that lots of bars and restaurants panic over the loss of business (especially since it seems as though the extreme weather has fallen on the weekends.) To try to lure people out they send out “hey, we’re still open” e-mails with specials. Now, I’m not subscribed to every restaurant mailing list in Philadelphia by far, but here are a few specials I know are happening today. Feel free to leave any others in the comments. Then if you’re hale and hearty, strap on the snow boots and support your local businesses.
Fork Restaurant (306 Market Street) is offering a complimentary “Blizzard” (LaColombe coffee, chocolate mint liqueur, kahlua and fresh whipped cream)! Just mention the e-mail. Valid only with the purchase of a dinner entree.
Tria Rittenhouse Square (123 S.18th Street) and Tria Washington Square West (1137 Spruce Street) – Are both offering Sunday-school style specials today. St. Joseph Syrah ’02 – meaty Rh√¥ne red. $5 Ewephoria – crunchy sheep’s milk Gouda. $5 Dogfish Head World Wide Stout – massive 18% rarity. $5 Starts at noon. Today only.
Brauhaus Schmitz has been open since the early AM for Konferenz Channel which is some . . . soccer thing. They’re offering a German breakfast of Brotchen, cheese, salami, ham, hard-boiled egg, butter and nutella! Specials include $1.50 Koelsch while FC Koeln plays and $4 beer specials for Franziskaner, Warsteiner and Hausbrau.
There is a metric crapton of Super Bowl Specials happening tomorrow, so perhaps people are waiting on this snow thing until it looks like we know what the weather is going to do. Surprised I haven’t heard anything yet from Varga or Foy’s . . .
Is it wrong to review a bathroom within the first few hours of its grand opening? Yes. I mean, of course it’s clean. Soap and paper towels are there. No mystery puddles anywhere. But I am justifying my decision to review by having this be a bit of a series with this bathroom. Sort of a compare and contrast maybe check it out again a month from now and maybe six months in. I’m taking this opportunity for a series because it’s rare to actually visit a bar on the first day of it being open. Fortunately Bauhaus Smidtz is a cool enough place and I would like to go back.
The bathroom itself is a little….strange. Unisex, upstairs this bathroom looks like a bathroom in your house. Simple; with yellowish paint with white trim and brown floor tiling. Of course it’s clean and bright. The weird thing is the window. The window is very large and goes all the way down to almost the floor. And when you look outside, you are practically looking not only at street level but directly down onto some people’s houses that are behind the bar. So, don’t be surprised if you are walking up what I think is Rodman Street behind Bauhaus Schmitz and see some frat boy lurching, or some grandma on the toilet. So, don’t ever walk up the 700 block of Rodman Street ever again!
