‘Boston’ Archives
Russell House Tavern to open in Harvard Square
Word on the Internet is that Harvard Square will soon have another restaurant to add to its roster - Russell House Tavern, headed by Chef Michael Scelfo from Temple Bar. Its opening is set for late March or early April. Their Twitter account is currently silent, although following and being followed by well over a 1,000 tweeps. What kind of food will it serve? According to a Craiglist ad [...]
Grocery shopping like it’s window shopping in Cambridge
I fully believe in walking into grocery stores just to lustfully pine after that cheese you can't afford (or don't have a place to store, in my case). The vicarious thrill of handling boxes of exotic imported snack foods is almost as fun as eating them. In some cases, it's more fun than eating them. Especially if they're licorice-flavored. Ew. So my newest list for Citysearch is five places [...]
Free Let’s Go: Boston travel guide giveaway!
Once upon a time, I researched for Let's Go: Boston, which is also repackaged into The Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard. I spent many hours of my life running from shop to salon to hardware store, checking on opening hours and other minutiae. So now I have an enormous stack of books in my dorm room - they're all essentially the same book with different covers. Let's Go: Boston is repackaged [...]
Eating Toro’s beef hearts; Ken Oringer
Thinly sliced beef heart at Ken Oringer's Toro. My dining partner was a little apprehensive at first, but pronounced the finished product akin to roast beef - I'd say it's more fine grained. I love how offal can look so innocuous but surprise you with a certain intensity of flavor or texture. Like their sweetbreads - my first, actually. I'll post pictures of those later. I got into an [...]
Chocolate cake at Troquet
My gay best friend and I rushed in 20 minutes late to a cake and wine tasting at Troquet, so I missed the cake making demonstration. But hey, I did get to do the important part: eat it all. Twice. The space is a cozy. It's narrow, with a line of black lacquered two tops in warmly painted room, perfect date material. And the best part? Over on the counter were over a dozen small plates of [...]
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