Pizza multi

By Marc Levy

Published: July 20, 2005

Pizzeria Uno is a full-service bar as well as a popular restaurant. Its patio, too, is the best — and only — in Porter Square. Uno has become addicted to its features, though. It’s one thing to advertise the obvious, that people can come watch television and play its Golden Tee game; it’s permissible, too, [...]

Hess gets Gas with a Smile

By Marc Levy

Published: July 18, 2005

Hess gas won its spot in Porter Square at a Board of Zoning Appeals meeting Thursday, with four members voting in favor and chairman Tom Sieniewicz abstaining. The owner of Gas With a Smile, Christous Poutahidis, won also, because now he can sell his station and retire. The neighbors won, too, in that Hess answered [...]

Zipcarnage

By Marc Levy

Published: July 13, 2005

Cambridge is a city of 101,587 people, but it can feel like the smallest town in the world. Tonight, for instance, the North Cambridge Stabilization Committee will meet for two hours mainly on the “discussion of requested variance to replace Gas With a Smile with a Hess station and convenience store,” which follows the hour [...]

Ungrand opening

By Marc Levy

Published: July 8, 2005

Emack & Bolio’s Ice Cream & Yogurt opened in Porter Square today, unfortunately a day of unseasonable cold and aggressive rain that had even the hardy ice cream eaters of New England staying away in droves. You couldn’t tell that immediately from the crowd inside the tiny shop, though, which was packed with people, more [...]