June 2007 - Posts

Out of Africa: With a second location now open, Addis Red Sea brings more Ethiopian food to Boston

Out of Africa: With a second location now open, Addis Red Sea brings more Ethiopian food to Boston

by Louisa Kasdon, 06-19-2007

ADDIS RED SEA Ethiopian Restaurant is probably the only place in Boston where eating with your fingers is the height of cultural refinement. Your meal begins with a hot cloth to freshen up your hands before they dive in. You eat hunched over a large common...
Feeding Frenzy: L'Espalier, Sel de la Terre, Avila, and Chefs in Shorts

Feeding Frenzy: L'Espalier, Sel de la Terre, Avila, and Chefs in Shorts

by Louisa Kasdon, 06-19-2007

Boston brownstones are quaint but they aren't exactly restaurant-friendly, especially when the restaurant has the kind of success and finesse of Frank McClelland's L'Espalier . The restaurant (and its chef/owner, fresh from winning a James...
Monopoly Man: a conversation with one of Boston's most prolific - and under-the-radar - restauranteurs

Monopoly Man: a conversation with one of Boston's most prolific - and under-the-radar - restauranteurs

by Louisa Kasdon, 06-05-2007

BY ALL ACCOUNTS, Amrik Pabla plays a wicked game of Monopoly. As a kid, school bored him. He dropped in and out, early and often. But his father, chef and real-estate entrepreneur Balbir Singh Pabla, who came to the United States in 1971, was a keen judge...
Feeding Frenzy: L'Espalier, Sandrine's Bistro, and Oak Room

Feeding Frenzy: L'Espalier, Sandrine's Bistro, and Oak Room

by Tamara Wieder, 06-05-2007

IT COMES as no surprise to us that Boston's culinary scene is worthy of national attention. And it got some last month at the James Beard Foundation Awards in New York City. Todd English took home the "Best Television Food Special" award...
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