When walking through the streets of Salem, MA accompanied by Salem Food Tours Owner, Karen Scalia, you feel as if you are traveling with the Mayor. It seems as if every purveyor we pass greets us with a warm, …
It’s autumn, and not only the leaves are turning yellow. Fall means one thing in Soupland: squash soup of one kind or another, anything from butternut to pumpkin, as dependably comforting as the sweater you’re finally admitting you have to …
The highballs are served in highball glasses and the (quite potent) gin-based cocktails are served in coupes. The soapstone bar is broad and invites touching. The music enhances, rather than overpowers, the boisterous conversational hum. And the folks running the …
At Gem Restaurant & Lounge, one twisty staircase up on a secluded side street in downtown Boston, the friendly bartender confides in us that the New England Lobster Chowder is her favorite dish. With good reason: it’s the kind of starter …
Crediting it’s website, Mistral’s name is “inspired by the wind that sweeps through the South of France.” What better day to sample their classic French Onion Soup than on a unseasonably spring like day in early February as the light …
The downstairs bar at Forum, recently opened on Boylston Street in Boston, rolls back from its glass façade like a sensuous cave. The look is ultra modern, ultra chic: a broad expanse of white brick, dramatically up lit, stretches opposite …
Talking to Steve Johnson, the gentle and clever chef at stylish-but-casual Rendezvous in Central Square, Cambridge, I’m impressed by his devotion to community, to local sourcing, and to good old-fashioned home economics. He lets me in on one of his …
On a dreary and chilly Boston September day, the folks at What’s the Soup sent me to check in and report back on the soup scene at Deuxave, located at the corners of Mass Ave. and Comm Ave. in Boston’s …
The South End Buttery is a quaint bakery and bistro tucked away on a tree lined street in Boston’s South End, reminiscent of a café you may find in Paris’s Saint-Germain-des-Pres neighborhood. On this warm, late summer night, few things …
Lucky for all of us, chefs are busy turning the Cambridge neighborhood designated as “Area 4” into a Mecca of good eating. Area Four audaciously takes the neighborhood’s name as its identity, and does the moniker proud. They say that …