Last night, I had dinner at Friday, Saturday, Sunday. It's a restaurant that is a throwback (but in a very good, comforting way) to the 1980's. It takes up the bulk of an old brick rowhouse on the edge of the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood, the downstairs dining room is lined in wood paneling and mirrors (thus the eighties feel) and diners are perch on scarred chairs or along a padded built in seat that runs the length of the wall. Neither fancy, nor cheap, the food is the sort of stuff that you might make at home if you had enough time or inclination to use that much butter.
While they've never done their own cookbook (like their now-shuttered former peer The Commissary), they've posted one of their most popular recipes on their website. I had this Cream of Mushroom Soup last night and it was one of the best things I've eaten in weeks. Smooth, but not in a way that resembles baby food, the mushroom flavor sings and the shot of cognac gives it a welcome, warming buzz. If it tastes as good in my kitchen as it did in the restaurant, I may be saying good-bye to my previous muchroom soup favorite.
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11-18-2008 @ 9:12PM
bugga said...
I got to go to Friday Saturday Sunday for the first time when I was 15, as a guest of my best friend's parents, for my friend's 16th birthday. I loved it then and I still love it today and their mushroom soup is definitely a classic.
When I worked in Center City many years later, the upstairs bar at Friday Saturday Sunday was a lovely cozy place for an after-work drink.
Speaking of mushroom soups, the mushroom barley soup from The Frog/Commissary Cookbook is also wonderful. :)
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11-18-2008 @ 9:27PM
mj said...
This looks and sounds so great. I would only add lots of fresh cracked pepper and fresh baked crusty bread.
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11-19-2008 @ 9:46AM
Marisa McClellan said...
Sally, Kennett Square is an area outside of Philly that produces a large proportion of the country's mushrooms. However, I've never actually heard or seen of the Kennett Square cream mushroom, so when I make this soup, I'm planning on using plain old white button mushrooms.
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11-19-2008 @ 10:14AM
Sally said...
That looks great, but what is a Kennett Square "cream" mushroom? Is it a button mushroom? That's what it looks like in the photo with the recipe.
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11-19-2008 @ 2:59PM
joanne said...
I think Kennett Square "cream" is just a nod to the color of the mushroom. It says to use slightly brown mushrooms instead of the fresh white button ones.
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1-08-2009 @ 4:39PM
erinn said...
I have been a fan of friday saturday sunday since anout 1996, my husband had a small studio down the street right before we got married and we would stop in for dinner often. About a year after started going I came across the recipe four the soup and have been making ever since. I am making it for my kids tonight for dinner and serving it would good crusty bread, pure heaven!
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1-30-2009 @ 8:44PM
Jackie Kirby said...
FSS is the best restaurant I have EVER been to. I miss it. When I lived in Philly we went so often the wait staff knew us by name. Try to get an upstairs table. It is a romantic wonderful room to enjoy all the delicious food.
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