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Feeding Frenzy: Beehive, West Side Lounge, Café Z, Lumière, and Craigie Street Bistrot

by Louisa Kasdon | April 23, 2008
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...

Feeding Frenzy: Highland Kitchen, Neighborhood Nights at Nebo, The Butcher Shop, and the Beehive

by Louisa Kasdon | March 10, 2008
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...

The Pioneer: Michael Leviton was a groundbreaker in Newton. Now he hopes to do it all over again in the Fort Point Channel.

by Louisa Kasdon | March 10, 2008
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...

Early Birds: Being among the first to eat at a new restaurant has plenty of drawbacks. So what attracts people as soon as the doors have opened?

by Louisa Kasdon | February 25, 2008
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...

Feeding Frenzy: Boston Chocolate Trolley Tour, Excelsior

by Louisa Kasdon | February 06, 2008
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...

Isn't it Romantic? But what makes it so?

by Louisa Kasdon | February 06, 2008
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...

Feeding Frenzy: St. Alphonzo’s Kitchen, Legal Sea Foods, B&G Oysters, and Eastern Standard

by Louisa Kasdon | January 28, 2008
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...

Feeding Frenzy: Spinazzola Gala, Boston Wine Expo, 51 Lincoln, Vintage, and more

by Louisa Kasdon | January 08, 2008
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...

Small Miracles: When it comes to restaurants, maybe size does matter

by Louisa Kasdon | December 12, 2007
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...

Feeding Frenzy: BRIX, Rialto, Clink, Bin 26, and more

by Louisa Kasdon | December 12, 2007
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...

Feeding Frenzy: Radius, No. 9 Park, UpStairs on the Square, Jake's Dixie Roadhouse

by Tamara Wieder | November 30, 2007
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...

Feeding Frenzy: Small Plates, Tavern on the Square, Betty's Wok & Noodle Diner, and more

by Louisa Kasdon | November 19, 2007
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...

Feeding Frenzy: Harvest, Community Servings, and Eastern Standard

by Louisa Kasdon | November 05, 2007
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...

Beyond the Buzz: Checking in at Rocca, four months later

by Louisa Kasdon | August 27, 2007
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...

Feeding Frenzy: Stir, Gaslight Brasserie du Coin, Harvest, BU Wine Tasting Class

by Louisa Kasdon | August 27, 2007
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...