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PREVIEW THE MENU FOR ALL STAR PIZZA BAR, OPENING MID-MARCHThe All Star Sandwich Bar team will offer pies with toppings ranging from grits to meatballs to figs.Posted by Leah Mennies on 2/9/2012 at 12:33PM | No Comments
 Above is the box design for All Star Pizza Bar, which will open next Month. (Photo courtesy of All Star Pizza Bar) In this month’s Where to Eat in 2012 issue, we told you about All Star Pizza Bar, the latest venture from the team behind Inman Square’s popular All Star Sandwich Bar. The pizza place—located across the street from its sandwich sibling—is gearing up for a mid-March opening. Co-owner Kosta Diamantopoulos sent me the pizza menu recently, which you can check out ahead. READ MORE |
ANDREW ZIMMERN DISHES ON HIS NEW COLLABORATION WITH BABSON COLLEGEThe Travel Channel star will serve as an entrepreneur-in-residence for students.Posted by Leah Mennies on 2/8/2012 at 12:00PM | No Comments
While Travel Channel personality Andrew Zimmern is known for dining on roasted raccoon and insects aplenty, the Bizarre Foods host also has an agenda when it comes to raising social awareness about food. The most recent example of this is his new collaboration with Wellesley-based Babson College, a school known for its entrepreneurial prowess. Zimmern will serve as entrepreneur-in-residence and work directly with the school’s Lewis Institute Social Innovation Lab plus the Lab’s ‘Food Sol,’ an ‘action tank’ that’s focused on food-related innovation. To kick off the collaboration, Zimmern visited the college on Monday afternoon to give a talk in front of several hundred students and faculty. Per The Herald, he used the talk as an opportunity to encourage students to interact more with faculty, and also take the time to travel. Prior to the lecture, I chatted with Zimmern on the phone to learn about his new responsibilities as entrepreneur-in-residence at the business school, and I was encouraged to learn that he’ll be serving as more than a mere famous figurehead. READ MORE |
WHAT’S BREWING: PRETTY THINGS LAUNCHES ST. WINIFREDELearn more about the roasty brown lager, and find out where to try it tonight.Posted by Anne Vickman on 2/8/2012 at 10:56AM | No Comments
Somerville’s omnipresent gypsy brewers Pretty Things are adding a new beer to their roster today: St. Winifrede. The roasty brown lager (which owners Dann and Martha Paquette suspect is the only brown lager on the market) was named after a Welsh lass whose spurned suitor chopped her head off back in the 7th century. Legend has it that after Winifrede’s uncle managed to put her dome piece back onto her body, she came back to life. Huzzah! READ MORE |
PATRICIA YEO GIVES US A SNEAK PREVIEW OF MOKSA, OPENING NEXT MONTHGet a look at the still-under-construction space.Posted by Leah Mennies on 1/19/2012 at 8:35AM | 1 Comment
The blueprint for Moksa, slated to open mid-next month. All photos by Leah Mennies. Earlier this month, I showed you a preview of Patricia Yeo’s menu for Moksa, her highly anticipated izakaya in Central Square. Though the concept was originally slated to open in December, it’s now been pushed back to the middle of next month. “This has been the longest gestation ever,” Yeo told me yesterday, when I visited her in the still-rough space for a preview of the massive 8,500 square ft (!!) space. So while you may not be able to sample Yeo’s small plates and skewers for a few more weeks, you can learn about Moksa’s separate night club, “restaurant within the restaurant,” and bristled walls ahead. READ MORE |
SCENES FROM THE FIRST INSTALLMENT OF GUCHI’S MIDNIGHT RAMENLast night, O Ya chefs Yukihiro Kawaguchi and Mark O'Leary took over Bondir for a late-night ramen pop-up.Posted by Leah Mennies on 1/16/2012 at 4:19PM | No Comments
A bowl of ramen, Guchi’s Midnight Ramen-style. All photos by Leah Mennies In November, I told you about Guchi’s Midnight Ramen, a collaboration between O Ya chefs Yukihiro Kawaguchi and Mark O’Leary (with help from O Ya alum Tracy Chang). Last night marked the hotly anticipated debut ramen dinner, an invite-only tasting with industry folk including Colin Lynch of Menton, Jamie Bissonnette of Toro and Coppa, and John Gertsen of Drink, which took place at 12:30 am at Bondir in Cambridge. I was lucky enough to snag an invite as well, and in the name of research I braved the cold and ate what may have been the latest three-course meal I have ever consumed. (I didn’t get home until 3 a.m.) I have to admit, it was definitely worth it. Ahead, a look at what’s in store for those lucky enough to hit up a future Guchi’s ramen pop-up. READ MORE |
TASTY BURGER TO BRING SECOND LOCATION (AND BOOZE!) TO DAVIS SQUAREPosted by Leah Mennies on 12/7/2011 at 1:12PM | No Comments
 Coming soon to Davis: The Fatty Patty, featuring two patties, tomato and bacon between two grilled cheeses. (Photo courtesy of Tasty Burger) Last month, we told you that David DuBois, owner of Tasty Burger, Citizen Public House and The Franklin restaurants, was planning on expanding his Tasty Burger concept to at least two new locations. I just hung up with DuBois, who confirmed that the first of these will be in Davis Square. READ MORE |
A PEEK INSIDE SIENA FARMS’ BRAND NEW SOUTH END STOREPosted by Leah Mennies on 12/7/2011 at 10:54AM | No Comments
Until recently, if you wanted to take home some of the expansive variety of produce from Siena Farms—a Sudbury farm run by Chris Kurth, husband of Oleana and Sofra toque Ana Sortun— you had to track it down at your local farmers market. As of last Thursday, however, you can now find everything from pale white heirloom carrots to fresh eggs to dense coconut macaroons (from Sofra, of course) at the farm’s first brick and mortar shop, located at 106 Waltham Street in the South End in the space that was once Barbara Lynch’s Plum Produce (between The Butcher Shop and cookbook store Stir). Recently, I headed down to the shop to get a mini-tour from farm market manager Trevor Sieck. “We have been looking for a retail space for several years, and this one kind of opened up. Barbara [Lynch] asked us if we wanted to lease the old Plum space, and the price was right,” he says. “Within about a month we were here.” |
DETAILS ON BRICK & MORTAR, REPLACING THE ENORMOUS ROOM THIS MONTHPosted by Leah Mennies on 12/6/2011 at 1:52PM | No Comments
 Score one for B-Side Lounge fans. (Photo courtesy of Flickr/Dan4th) In October, we told you that the Enormous Room would close after nine years as a Cambridge fixture to make way for a new nightlife concept. I just hung up with owner Gary Strack, who shared some exciting news on the replacement, which will be called Brick & Mortar. Fans of the much-beloved B-Side Lounge should rejoice — the spot will be a joint concept between Strack, B-Side founder Patrick Sullivan, and other yet-unnamed industry stalwarts. “We just really, really love bars,” Strack says. “It’s almost a religious kind of passion.” READ MORE |
MYSTERIOUS RAMEN POP-UP, ‘GUCHI’S MIDNIGHT RAMEN,’ COMING TO BOSTONPosted by Leah Mennies on 11/21/2011 at 4:01PM | No Comments
 Homemade ramen coming soon? Sign us up. (Photo courtesy of Flickr/Neil Conway) While many have mourned the death of Ken’s Ramen in Allston last January, there’s a glimmer of ramen hope, it seems: a ramen pop-up, called “Guchi’s Midnight Ramen,” will be coming to Boston in the not-so-distant future. READ MORE |
TASTY BURGER TO EXPAND WITH AT LEAST TWO NEW LOCATIONS THIS YEARPosted by Leah Mennies on 11/18/2011 at 11:57AM | No Comments
 Coming soon: MORE KAHUNA BURGERS! (photo courtesy of Tasty Burger) For anyone who has happily downed a jalapeno burger and salty onion strings from Tasty Burger in Fenway, here’s some great news: in as soon as the next six months, the burger joint will be expanding to at least two new locations, according to owner David DuBois. READ MORE |
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Behold the new label for Lovely Saint Winefride, which debuts today. (All art courtesy of Pretty Things)
