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Life in a changing restaurant world, where everyone with a laptop is a potential food critic. A few weeks ago I went to a seminar for the restaurant trade. There was a lot of excellent information for chefs and owners — where the real-estate market is...
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ANOTHER SIGN of spring are softshell crabs, in season for about a month each year. As part of his "30 Days, 30 Ways" promotion, 51 Lincoln chef/owner Jeff Fournier will be preparing them a different way each night in May. >> Over at the...
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AFTER SIX years of toiling in basement kitchens at Saint and Domani, chef Rene Michelena is on top of the world - quite literally. He's moved up to a fourth-floor kitchen as executive chef at two new dining spots in the Financial District: Central...
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DEAR RESTAURANT OWNER: All we wanted was someone to welcome us. It was an early dinner at your chic new neighborhood bistro. We'd heard good things about the steak. We were psyched by the idea of great food so close to home. Here's our story....
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SPEAKING OF new neighborhood gastropubs, a near-perfect example is Highland Kitchen in Somerville. Chef Mark Romano was ready to be his own boss after five years at the Green Street Grill, so a year ago he set out to find a perfect roost. Romano took...
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IT'S A week before Persephone is scheduled to open, and chef Michael Leviton is limping through the construction rubble of his edgy gastropub in Fort Point Channel. He's charged up, moving briskly around the space, and it takes a moment to notice...
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WE GENERALLY think of chain restaurants as yawns, except when they're truly excellent. Three recent arrivals are just that. First, the Oceanaire Seafood Room on Court Street is the newest in a chain of 16 upscale restaurants. (Other locations include...
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WHEN THE doors opened recently at Café Z and the Oceanaire Seafood Room, I was one of the first customers inside. Nearly alone in each dining room, I joyfully mused over the menus and watched the dishes come out of the kitchens, not minding at all that...
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FEBRUARY IS a month for eating large quantities of exquisite chocolate. Perfect time, then, for the Boston Chocolate Trolley Tour , offered from Old Town Trolley Tours at noon-ish every Saturday through April 26. Four stops of chocolate decadence are...
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FOR THE PAST week, I've been asking everyone I meet the same question: what makes a restaurant romantic? Why do some restaurants fan the flames while others are just food and fun? As it turns out, dinner romance is a topic that everyone feels competent...
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IT'S BEEN almost a year since Jody Adams relaunched Rialto as a solo act. Before that, if any pair was a recognizable constellation in the local-restaurant night sky, it was Jody Adams and Michela Larson. They were everywhere, at every event, behind...
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NEWS FROM the South (Boston, that is): Peter Irving and Natasha Kanieff have reinvented their comfort-food hideaway, Potbellies Kitchen. It's now called St. Alphonzo's Kitchen ; the new name comes from a Frank Zappa tune, "St. Alphonzo's...
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JUST IN from Ann M. Mack, the director of trendspotting for the advertising behemoth J. Walter Thompson: food trends for 2008. Her first hunch is that kitchen power tools will be strong: high-end espresso makers, vacuum sealers, and power blenders are...
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THIS IS A fully researched column - footnotes and annotations on request - about what to eat (and where) when it's cold and dark outside. The answer is spice. Of course soups and stews and big bowls of steaming pasta will warm your hands and your...
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IT'S AFTER a movie and we're in the car - and without reservations - on a Saturday night. We assumed it'd be easy, after 9:30, to slip into a table for two almost anywhere in the city. Wrong. So after three failed attempts, we tiptoe into...
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