Sam and Sandy: October 2015

Sunday, October 11, 2015

#67 - Fat Tuesday - Sandy's synopsis

My favourite thing about Fat Tuesday was the 90s music they played in the background. The upbeat tunes of the Backstreet Boys was better than the food and drink at this fine establishment.

Fat Tuesday is known for their alcoholic frozen daiquiris. You can mix and match flavours and also add an extra shot of Everclear for a dollar extra. (Neither Sam nor I took them up on that generous offer, unfortunately). I ordered a combination of the banana and pina colada flavours and it unsurprisingly tasted like cough syrup instead. It made me regret not getting the extra shot of Everclear. At least that way, I might be too drunk to care about how awful it tasted.

For food, Sam and I shared a couple of appetizers - the fried green beans and the nachos. The green beans were actually decent and tasted like fried chicken wings.

The nachos however were probably the worst nachos I have ever had. Food rarely makes me feel nauseous, but something about the cheese wiz on these nachos made me want to hurl.

We powered through as much of the food and booze as we could before leaving, vowing to never return.

Fat Tuesday

431 South Street

Philadephia PA 19147

215-629-5999

#67 Fat Tuesday - Sam's synopsis

We tried really hard not to go here. I was really hoping they didn't have food, because I had no interest in taking a trip down Bourbon Street in Philadelphia. But alas, we were fated to go anyways. So we went, and it was exactly what I expected. Crappy boardwalk-style food and giant alcohol slushies. The second part isn't so bad, except the slushies are more sugar-y and less alcohol-y. You can get an extra grain alcohol shot for $1, but we weren't really feeling it on a Tuesday night (but hey, at least we went on a Tuesday for comedic value). The place was pretty dead but I imagine fills up with the crowd of Jersey folks that you'd rather not know on the weekends. We ordered fried green beans and Irish nachos. The fried green beans started out okay, because they did have a nice crunch to them, but after eating 10 or more my stomach was no longer having any of it. Irish nachos are just waffle fries with toppings - in this case; cheese whiz, tomatoes, lettuce and onions. These also started out okay, but I was pretty sick of them after a few bites. This is not surprising, as I imagine this food is purely meant as drunk fare. And I'll give Fat Tuesday that - this stuff probably tastes pretty great if you're drunk. But if you're there completely sober, stick to the slushies. You can mix and match to make a drink of your liking - I went with strawberry daiquiri and margarita - and add extra booze as I mentioned. But the drinks are a bit expensive and you can certainly get more bang for your buck by buying a shot of whiskey at any other bar in the city.

Fat Tuesday

431 South Street

Philadelphia, PA

(215) 629-5999

The one street (our precious)

So is South Street the one street to rule them all, to find them, to bring them all and in the darkness bind them? In a sense it is. This eclectic street brings together the most varied restaurant experiences between the boundaries of 26th and Front Street. Or so we'd heard and are here to find out. At various times when we talked about new restaurants to try, we noticed a theme - a majority of them were on South Street. Over the past few years this street has had a boom in new food ventures, which suits these hungry gals just fine.

To learn more about South Street, outside of our musings in this blog, please visit its Wikipedia page cause Wikipedia does know everything. Click here to find out more about South Street's Headhouse district (between Front and 10th Street on South).