Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The new restaurant opened last week.
Perry Shaw's been working toward opening his own restaurant for the past seven years. The chef was then in culinary school at the Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College, learning to become a pastry chef. Soon afterward, he got a job at Normandy Farm Hotel and Conference Center in Blue Bell, making bread, croissants and other similar items. He was doing that until the chef was out one day. Shaw's supervisor asked him to take care of breakfast that day, and they liked his work. He was hesitant at first—he wanted to stick with making pastries, which is what he knew best—but was, in the end, flexible and came to enjoy being more of an all-purpose chef in the kitchen. "I was putting in a lot of hours there," Shaw said. "And so, along with …
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Monday, December 13, 2010
The Cedars House provides fuel for year-round runners.
With winter looming and foot traffic on Forbidden Drive beginning to dwindle, Ricki Eisenstein is buckling down for her first cold season running The Cedars House. Located in a cozy 1800s cottage at the popular pathway's Northwestern Avenue trailhead, the café and fitness center just came off a busy season with scores of groups getting ready for the sold out Philadelphia Marathon in late November. "I would see the people training out there for months," Eisenstein said during an interview Sunday. "They were our regulars." Even though business has slowed down in the weeks since, and Eisenstein is preparing to announce reduced winter hours, The Cedars House calendar will still contain regular activities for year-round runners and fitness …
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Owner Robert Wheeler hopes to be the first of many upscale, new businesses coming to the lower end of the Avenue.
For five years, Robert Wheeler watched campaign offices and other temporary endeavors come and go from the storefront space at Germantown Avenue and Pelham Road. In April, he stopped in to look at the space and pitched his proposal to the property owner. Six months later, Wired Beans Café opened at 6734 Germantown Ave. "I wanted good food, good coffee," Wheeler said. Wheeler knew for years he wanted to open a café, and as soon as he set foot in the space, even with though it was functioning at the time as a campaign space, he saw his store forming. "I walk into a place and I always see it for what I want it to be, not what it is," he said. What Wheeler wanted was an upscale café for with "something with substance" when it came to the …
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Shirley
11:38 am on Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Great...a place for daily breakfast; hopefully, patronage will improve demanding Sundays to be open also. Sundays, Mr. Shaw, would almost guarantee a huge influx due to the surrounding Churches and their Sunday morning worshippers. Good luck and I will see you shortly for breakfast since you are within walking distance and open early enough so I can stick to my diabetic eating routine. Thank you … more ›