What a perfect early winter day for soup! It’s cool and dark with a hovering, thick pregnant sky. I figured I had a small window, took off for a short bike sprint and came home a smiling but cold wet …
Island Creek Oyster Bar in Boston is serious about their oysters. The first thing you’ll notice is the oyster bar proper, a sparkling mountain of ice studded with twelve to eighteen different varieties of oysters and subtly highlighted by a …
Yesterday just may have been the very definition of the perfect soup day. It was bitterly cold out and I had the great luck of being caught in a windy, rainy mess of a storm. The freezing rain was slapping …
I hate to sound generic, but the soup at Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Market, located in the W hotel in the Theater District, tastes like spring in a bowl. Seriously. Labeled simply as “Green Pea Soup, Parmesan” the soup comes to you …
There is something about going down stairs into a joint, off the street level, that makes you feel like you are walking into a private event. Beat Hotel in historic Harvard Square is just that, an event. One would have …
I’m munching on some really good ciabatta-style rolls, sipping my perfect Americano cocktail, awaiting the Pea Soup with Gooseberry Crème Fraîche and the Really Good Lobster Soup at City Table in the Lenox Hotel, one of the grand dames …
Chef Will Gilson is a child of New England. He is also the child of the farm. These two facts are abundantly clear from the moment you walk into the beautifully appointed Puritan & Company. The space, at first airy …
District Hall, in Boston’s burgeoning Innovation District, is a great idea: provide a place where people can gather and exchange ideas. More important (for those who read this site, at least) is to provide a place for all those innovators …
So it’s lunch hour and your stomach is growling? Well folks it’s “Chowdah” Day! Legal Sea Foods, in honor of National Soup Month, has deemed January 15th National New England “Chowdah” Day. Pay homage to this savory bowl and meet …
Chef/Owner Chad Burns hails originally from Michigan, where he grew up farming, hunting, and foraging. So local (and unusual) sourcing is not only second nature to him, it’s part of his identity and that of his excellent restaurant, Farmstead Table. …