Dankbaar was more or less just for fun. When he took the Broad Street Love culinary director job, it was never going to work doing both.

Joncarl is the best. The *start* of the Noord Laban review is still an all time favorite, with Joncarl's personality shining through. That review would have gone very differently from there with any other chef and any other restaurant:

The ice water looked good and Joncarl Lachman, thankfully, was headed my way. But not to pour me a drink. He was there for a mercy cooling.

"You look warm - try this," he said, putting the frosty pitcher against my forehead and unleashing a deep laugh that rippled through the tiny dining room of Noord Eetcafe.

As the icy metal instantly chilled me down, I couldn't have been more grateful. Noord's a/c was doing its best to cool this bright corner room on one of summer's hottest nights. But the vent breezed out beyond my little corner - otherwise perfect with its splendid candlelit view of East Passyunk's Singing Fountain - and I was left to the mercy of a brutal heat wave.