Thrillist – Kokopelli – Philadelphia, PA
From an event planner who wished a bar worthy of his happenings and a chef eager to show her significant Southwestern chops, Kokopelli’s an airy, stylish joint with a front anchored by a booze-shelf-ringed stone-topped bar, a banquette’d back split by cascades of beaded curtains, and a menu of about 40 tequilas — which according to your Senor Frog’s shirt, is equivalent to 13.333 floors. Edibles consist of an ahi tequila crudo on a tortilla w/ garlic avocado crema spicy crab cakes above a candied orange & fennel salad chili-grilled salmon w/ crispy brie leaf and a Southwestern succotash and crispy quail in cayenne honey, also the call of each and every yuppie wife come Porsche Christmas industrial season. Meanwhile, the extensive library of tequila is leveraged for blanco/ reposado/ anejo rails (such as premiums like Herradura Suprema and Partida Elegante) and cocktails like the Blood Orange Martini (Corzo Silver, Patron Citronge, blood orange simple syrup, lime juice, black smoke salt rim) and The Onyx, created of Patron XO Cafe, coconut milk, and shaved coconut — also how you classify fans who daren’t consider to attain Conan’s facial hair greatness. Opening tonight: 1904 Chestnut St Rittenhouse Square 215.557.7510 For the deets: thrl.st
Thrillist – Luckys Puccias – Austin, TX
Utilizing standard puccia bread baked prior to your eyes in a wood-burning oven, Puccia’s run out of a trailer abutting the Tiniest Bar in Texas by a husband/wife team who honed their between-the-bread chops in Puglia, and feel so amorously about their ‘wiches they in fact wrote a song about them: “It’ll poo-cha smile on your face, it’ll make your mouth want a taste — lovin’ the poo-cha…” …It’s no “Thong Song”, but it is completely in your head now. The 100% natural/hormone-cost-free hand-missiles run from the Fortunate (prosciutto crudo, mozz, arugula, tomato, basil oil), to the Contadina (turkey, prov, arugula, tomato, olive tapenade), to the Arrostita with roast beef, mozz, arugula, tomato, and walnut sauce — but not chin-nuts, due to the fact you know what that implies. There is also similarly earthy lighter fare, like plates like the Paesana (tuna pate, mixed greens, tomato, shaved red onion), the di Mare (smoked salmon, chive cream cheese, arugula), and the mozz/avocado/cuke/greens/sprouts/tomato Vegetariana, which even if it have been much less forgiving, would have no beef with Chris Brown. Lucky’s Puccias 817 W 5th St Downtown 512.739.8785 For the deets: thrl.st
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