Cava opens in Somerville
Cava, a Mediterranean-inspired fast casual restaurant chain with customizable bowls, pita and salads, has opened a Somerville location at 320 Foley St., Assembly Square, between The Row Hotel at Assembly Row and the Bond Vet animal clinic. Cava locations in Cambridge’s Kendall and Harvard square preceded it.
Clover adds chickpea dish
Clover has added a Sonoma Chickpea Sandwich to its locations chainwide. The Sonoma is made with a chickpea-tofu salad with raisins, pecans and turmeric, served with greens and a maple-cider-poppy seed vinaigrette in housemade whole wheat pita.
London Fog ice cream
The J.P. Licks ice cream chain says that “in collaboration” with the upcoming film “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale,” it has a London Fog flavor – sweet cream ice cream with lavender and Earl Grey tea – at stores through September while supplies last. The chain serves a London Fog beverage year-round, too: a warm, tea-based latte made with Earl Grey tea, steamed milk and vanilla syrup. “The drink is known for the citrusy flavor of the bergamot oil in the Earl Grey tea, which pairs well with the creamy vanilla,” the chain explains in an email.
Roast in the Coast
The Cambridge Community Center hosts a Roast in the Coast block party from 1 to 4 p.m. Sept. 20 to celebrate the end of summer and welcome fall with food, entertainment, dancing and community gathering. No reservation is necessary – just show up – and no price given.
Making Truffles and Mexican
The Cambridge Center for Adult Education’s September schedule includes several 6 p.m. food classes, starting with Wednesday’s “Create Your Own Chocolate Truffles” ($95) to learn the techniques of ganache, fillings and coatings; after that comes “Baja Flavors: A Mexican Coastal Cooking Experience” ($115), with recipes such as shrimp ceviche, Baja fish tacos and tres leches cake. The class is Sept. 19. Information, registration and more food and wine events for the center at 42 Brattle St., Harvard Square, are online.
Bred ‘social hour,’ fall preview
The smoked-burger joint Bred adds a “social hour” of $4 appetizers alongside its handcrafted cocktails between 3 to 6 p.m. Monday to Friday. It’s at 730 Main St., The Port, Cambridge. Bred also offers a four-course fall menu preview dinner on Sept. 25. Ticket reservations are $60 per person.
Summer Shack
Summer Shack celebrates National Lobster Day Sept. 25 with buy-one, get-one 1-pound lobsters ($42 with corn on the cob), a deal for dine-in only. Reservations can be made on the Summer Shack website.
Wild Mushroom Dinner sells fast
Wow. Urban Hearth chef Erin Miller and Tyler Akabane, who runs The Mushroom Shop in Somerville (and the Mushrooms for My Friends social media account), has two Wild Mushroom Dinner seatings planned for Oct. 21-22, at the height of New England’s mushroom foraging season and found by Miller and Akabane. (“There’s no greater pleasure than crafting a meal from wild mushrooms gathered straight from the woods,” Urban Hearth blogger Abigail Taylor says.) Though in classic Cambridge-Somerville fashion, the meals have sold out before it’s even mid-September, the restaurant says there are still seats available if guests reach out to it directly, as it is offering a few seating times.
This post was updated Sept. 15, 2025, to note that here are still seats available at Urban Hearth’s Wild Mushroom Dinner seatings.
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