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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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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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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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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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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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FOODIES ARE the easiest people on your gift list. You can go from low end to high, buying anything from the perfect Wüsthof paring knife at Kitchen Arts to a selection of chilies or salts from Christina's Spice & Specialty Foods to a private wine...
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AHH, THE holidays: that time of good cheer, good gifts, and . . . overeating. Well, let the belt out a notch and deal with it, because there are too many indulgences too tasty to pass up. For starters, head over to Radius on December 8 for a class on...
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HERE'S A TALE of small and large in Cambridge. The small is Small Plates , a non-traditional new American-tapas restaurant and wine bar. It's a complete renovation of the space where Iruña (and, for an eye blink, Conundrum) used to sit on JFK...
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ROLLING INTO her first season at Harvest, Mary Dumont , named Best New Chef of 2006 by Food & Wine magazine (for her work at Dunaway Restaurant at Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth, New Hampshire), is starting to feel her oats. Well, maybe not her oats...
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IT'S A MUGGY Thursday night in the dog days of summer. The South End is supposed to be a ghost town with its near-mandatory evacuation to the Vineyard. But it seems none of the 100-plus diners at Rocca Kitchen & Bar got the memo. By six o'clock...
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BARBARA LYNCH's newest venue, Stir , is one of the best ideas to come to the South End. Tucked on Waltham Street in the South End (across from Lynch's B&G Oysters and next to Plum, her produce shop), Stir is a teensy gem of a space with a...
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