What: Cool food event alert- Culinary Arts Program’s (C-CAP) annual Philadelphia benefit is on Monday, October 30 at the Cira Centre. Why It's cool: While a lot of cheffy fundraisers don't have anything to do with the food world, this one certainly does. The program has been in Philly for 25 years and helps risk high school students with scholarships in the culinary arts. Last year they raised over $470,000 in culinary school scholarships, which allowed increases to job training, internships and career services, and expansion of the college advising program to at-risk teenagers across the region. The group is noticing a real rise in demand for these services. Who will be there: A crew of to
D'jakarta is one of the newer South Philly Indonesian restaurants, taking over the space formerly occupied by Sky Cafe. The menu is small and we were able to try about half of it, including every single fried item. Which was not done on purposes, but nobody was mad about it. We tried 3 out of the 4 appetizers- shrimp rollade, lumpia, and fried wontons. I always love Indonesian wontons, and didn't mind have two more come along with the egg noodle dish. This bowl covers all the major food groups, plus a side of weird meatball soup. If I'm on my own at an Indonesian restaurant without any eating buddies to share with and I have to pick one thing to order, it will usually be this because of all
