A group of Leather District residents want the South Street Diner to shutter at 2 a.m. nightly, putting the famed diner's 24 hour status in jeopardy. Fortunately, you can help. In an email to the Beantown Bloggery, the diner...
Channel Cafe, open since January 2005, seems to be undergoing a bit of a reinvention. The cafe recently sent out emails to local bloggers (including The Beantown Bloggery) "introducing" itself and touting their $10 burger and beer deal. Channel...
Drink is one of three Spirit Award nominees for World's Best New Cocktail Bar, reports Fork in the Road. The Spirit Awards, which are presented yearly at the Tales of the Cocktail festival in New Orleans, honor the best...
Umbria has transformed into Umbria Prime, an Italian-flavored steakhouse by day, and three-story nightclub by night. The menu is, predictably, upscale: think chitarrine with Kobe meatballs, and a $65 porterhouse. These are hilariously high prices for very tough times, so...
Wear a hat to Metropolitan Tea at BOND this afternoon and you can drink and dine for 15 cents, the same price it would have cost you in 1865. BOND's tea is three courses and includes scones with Devonshire...
Brian Konefal left Bina Osteria because he didn't want to go with the owners' "traditional Italian" concept, a restaurant source revealed to MenuPages. New executive chef and co-owner Azita Bina-Seibel plans to focus on "modern dishes rooted in classic methods"...
Brian Konefal has left Bina Osteria, reports Dishing. He has been replaced by the restaurant's co-owner Azita Bina-Seibel, who also helms the kitchens at Bin 26 and Lala Rokh. Bina Osteria's menu has been entirely overhauled, and there's good...
Persephone, Michael Leviton's Fort Point restaurant, is no longer offering lunch, reports a tipster. While this is undoubtedly sad news for Fort Point's well-heeled workers, Persephone's midday shutter doesn't mean the neighborhood is devoid of early afternoon delights. Try...
McCafé, McDonald's new premium coffee line, will be giving away free iced lattes and iced mochas at South Station today, reports the Beantown Bloggery. Stop by any time between 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. for a free drink. There will...
Get a $35 gift certificate to Kingston Station for only $15 with today's Groupon offer. To get the most bang for your buck, hit up the restaurant when its serving the post-10 p.m. late night menu. Signature dishes like...
As of this weekend, Scampo is serving up brunch. Lydia Shire's menu is heavy on the pork, with dishes like panettone french toast with maple-glazed bacon, spaghetti carbonara (always an underrated morning meal), and a BLT pizza. Alternately, you...
Lydia Shire recently hosted six students from the Lewis Middle School for dinner at Scampo, reports the Globe. Shire, herself a BPS graduate, met with the Lewis' All Girl Support Team, a group that seeks to expose students to...
Boston Museum has proposed a 100,000 square foot public market and Bostonian history museum on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, reports the Globe. This would seem to be one of the two proposals for a Boston Public Market that we...
Like namesake, like restaurant: Al Capone has been seized by State Police for nonpayment of taxes, reports the Globe. The popular Financial District sandwich shop owes the state $45,385.90, mostly in meal taxes dating back to the end of 2004....
It's been a very good week for Barbara Lynch's Italian lunch counter Sportello. On Monday, the restaurant was named as one of Saveur's 12 Restaurants That Matter and now the New York Times has joined in the praise chorus. In...
Here at MenuPages, we get hundreds of user reviews every single day. Most are legitimate people who ate at a restaurant and want to tell people how they liked it (or didn't). Some are unprintable on a family website. Some...
Sportello made Saveur's list of "12 Restaurants That Matter." Saveur's piece on Sportello and Barbara Lynch, written by Boston Magazine food critic Corby Kummer, mostly dotes on the expected items: Lynch's perfect gnocchi, the braised rabbit strozzapreti, the tiramisu. Also...
Boston was recommended as a destination for museum hoppers in this week's New York Magazine (full disclosure: we share a parent company with the mag). In addition to checking out the ICA, the magazine recommends visitors stop by Sensing....
The plans to turn Court Street's landmark Ames Building into a chic Morgans boutique hotel are proceeding apace and hiring has begun for the in-house restaurant, bar, and lounge, which will be the city's most exciting, according to the Craigslist...