It was a sad day when Azul Cantina closed, but the trade-off is looking pretty good: we get to have Varga Bar, sometime the week of May 18. The comfort food menu was crafted by R. Evan Turney (fans...
From the self-fulfilling prophecies department: We wrote last week about how Indian Bento has sort of a perfect storm of trendiness going for it, what with its online savvy, yellow Mini Cooper delivery mobile, and the fact that Indian...
Joe Day is the new chef for the Giants, and he plans to make the clubhouse food more nutritious. Before Wednesday's game, players ate "tri-tip wraps with pesto, lettuce chicken cups, salads, fruit, whole-grain bread, tuna salad and chicken...
Just back from the Pebble Beach Food and Wine Festival, offal ambassador Chris Cosentino cooked for Taste of the Nation last week, and is about to wrap up shooting on his new Food Network series, Chefs Vs. City. The rest...
Right here, right now, we're calling it: the Middle East the next big culinary muse. In a quick-n-dirty roundup of what chefs are working on, we get Carrie Nahabedian of Naha planning a monthly Armenian feast, Tony Priolo of...
Ken Oringer, Craigie On Main mixologist Tom Schlesinger-Guidelli, and Lydia Shire are all fans of the new Fenway Frank, reports Mouthing Off. The new franks (made by local company Kayem Foods) are hailed by the chefs as "meatier" and...
After our post yesterday, promoting tonight's crawfish boil at Magnolia, we've been noticing the little guys everywhere. A Chowhound posted last night asking for recommendations on where to buy them in bulk, and was advised to try San Francisco's...
Hot dogs are certainly hot this year, from new, cult-favorite stands like Da Beef to the haute cuisine versions being developed at Lockwood with a little help from MenuPages Chicago. Now a local culinary star has gotten into the...
The truck has only been around for three weeks, but cred is building for Honest Tom's Taco Shop, with their breakfast tacos and fancy Stumptown coffee. Following a burst of press earlier this week, two vegetarian blogs are weighing...
View Food Trucks of Boston in a larger map Boston has always had food trucks, but it's never been a food truck city, per se. That could all be changing, however, according to a slew of food truck stories in...
Talk about higher learning: University of Chicago professor Pamela Martin is teaching a yearlong class called “Feeding the City: The Urban Food Chain,” that attempts to quantify vague buzzwords like "sustainability" and "locavorism." Martin's course is based on the...
The Noe Valley hot spot that opened last month is still a bit too new for formal reviews, but the good old internets have plenty of opinions already, covering a pretty wide range. Contigo has been an online hot...
After Michael Bauer sang the praises of fava leaves on his blog last week, here comes Daniel Patterson with another strange new ingredient of the now: Fir tips. In a piece in San Francisco, the Coi chef/owner described the...
Between Hungry Mother and Craigie On Main (not to mention Ten Tables), Cambridge restaurants are on the rise. Behold, the five Cambridge listings that users like you clicked on most in the past month. 5) Dimitrios Cuisine 4) Punjabi...
Boston is chock-a-block with restaurants serving traditional New England fare, but which ones do users like you love the most? Behold, the top five most clicked-on last month...complete with only one Legal Sea Foods! 5) Henrietta's Table 4) Neptune...
Don't you wish this deal still existed? It's from the former New Dawn Cafe, which used to occupy the current Tokyo Go Go space. See what one guy remembers of that old gem over at Mission Mission. [via Lux Chris/Mission...
Every so often, Balut threatens to happen. Someone decides that, hey, this offal craze is carrying along its course, so obviously the next stop is a slow-cooked duck egg that's been fertilized and still has the duck fetus inside. "Mmm,"...
Mobile barbecue fans may want to think about their weekend rib needs now: Sneaky's BBQ experienced something of a run last weekend, and seems poised to repeat the performance next time around. According to their blog, they're going to...
Amyitis Garden founder David Stockhausen with Jessie Alberts For some, eating locally means dining on foods grown within 100 miles. For others, it’s 10 blocks. The folks at Amyitis Gardens have been quietly starting a neighborhood-based farming system that...