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Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Historically and metaphorically it might make sense to feast on lamb as spring approaches, but organizers of the Lamb Takedown planned for Sunday at The Middle East are pushing it.
Your eyes, stomach and bladder are not deceiving you: Diesel’s large drinks have indeed gotten bigger.
Somerville’s Evoo and Arlington’s Za are converging in February in Cambridge’s Kendall Square. (Photos: top, Chompster_2009; above, courtesy of Za)It’s been news to foodies since October that the restaurant Evoo is moving to Kendall Square from Somerville, and that its 350 Third St. location — called the Watermark Building — will also host the second Za, an Arlington pizza restaurant run by the same group. They should open in February, helping Kendall become more of a nighttime destination.
If fresh food from local farms cooked for you and served to you sounds good, it sounds like you need dinner at the Flying Zucchini Café.
Diesel, the best thing about Cambridge that isn’t actually in Cambridge, is changing its hours Nov. 8, adding morning time and closing earlier.
Steve Herrell taught me how to make ice cream and taught everyone else how to once again enjoy ice cream. The Herrell’s ice cream store in Harvard Square will close soon, according to today’s Boston Globe.
A customer enjoys the cool of Toscanini's in a sweltering Central Square on Wednesday. The ice cream shop has won "Best of Boston." (Photo: Marc Levy) Toscanini’s employees were just told the venerable Central Square ice cream shop has won Best of Boston from Boston magazine — but Mimi Rancatore, sister of venerable but vacationing Central Square ice cream shop owner Gus Rancatore, noted the news isn’t yet on the magazine’s Web site.
The magazine will release the information in a trickle [...]
I’ve been shopping at Market Basket over the past weeks and have been shocked at the price difference between it and Shaw’s supermarkets — something to which I’d been blind because there’s a Shaw’s literally across the street from me (although the entrance is around the block).
The cheapest toothbrush at Shaw’s costs $2.19. There are [...]
The Diet Coke ads in the Porter Square T stop — featuring cans decorated or arranged to suggest when they should be enjoyed — have been bothering me for weeks.
Yoga class is one suggestion, illustrated with an upside-down can. Morning is another, with a Starbucks-style sleeve added, implying the drink is like a hot cup of [...]
It was only hours before Steve Johnson opened the doors to his new restaurant, Rendezvous in Central Square, and he was playing it cool.
“I’m not intent on making a splash on day one,” he said. “Don’t get me wrong — we want customers. But we’re more interested in building the business over time.”
At 5 p.m. [...]
Tasters try dishes at a previous Takedown event. (Photo: chili-takedown.com)
The staff of the Flying Zucchini Café ready servings for patrons last year. The annual event takes place tonight and Thursday.
The Harvard Square Herrell's Ice Cream is closing. (Photo: Jeff Breeze, weallscreamforicecream.wordpress.com)
Ads in the Porter Square T stop in Cambridge play up Diet Coke's healthful and refreshing qualities March 17, 2007. (Photo: Marc Levy)
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