Food and Drinq

Some odds and ends... Conversation-starters...

+ The "Freedom Foie for Five" promotion wraps Saturday at an assortment of restaurants. (List here.) An encounter Thursday night outside of participant Matyson apparently was not promotion-related, according to Nick Cooney, head of protest group Hugs for Puppies. He said a drunk from a bar across the street accosted two protesters but did not make a statement about foie gras. "He didn't even think to know why we were out there," Cooney said. (As someone who has seen and heard the Puppies in full bark, I think he was probably upset at the noise. Bullhorns!)

+ Cary Neff's window is fixed at Coquette, and he's finally serving alcohol. So he called Friday morning to say that his other restaurant, Sansom Street Oyster House, was ransacked overnight by thieves.

+ Derek Davis of Derek's in Manayunk is getting ready to open a real, live butcher shop on the Main Line. More on this soon.

+ Chew over these two restaurant names: The Ugly American, which is due to replace La Vigna in South Philly, and Swallow, a bistro coming this late November-early December in Northern Liberties.