‘Harvard Square’ Archives
Zinneken’s in Harvard Square Brings You Belgian Waffles
This exclusive tip just in: Zinneken's, a Belgian waffle shop, will be opening in about four months in Harvard Square. Zinneke in Brussels dialect means someone of mixed origins, which not only represents the founders, but also their ambitions to introduce authentic Belgian food to Bostonians. They promise that Zinneken's baked-to-order offerings will to put your standard Americanized "Belgian [...]
Russell House Tavern in Harvard Square is here to stay.
Harvard was built in 1636. As another transient moving through these classrooms and dorms - every spring, boxing my pathetic belongings and thinking towards a shrinking timeline - it's easy to forget that the Square is transient as well. After all, it seems that Spare Change man has been hawking his newspapers in front of Au Bon Pain forever, and ever, calling, "Young lady! Young lady! Won't [...]
Russell House Tavern to open in Harvard Square
Update: Check out my Russell House review. 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 [...]
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 [...]
A love affair with coffee shops – The Biscuit in Somerville
It was spring, freshman year. By then, the Cambridge frost had receded from the cobblestone, and warm air spilled out from T stop as you walked by. To cheer myself up, I'd appoint myself in a wrap dress and green wedge sandals, the ones my mother bought me from China, and slip on a pair of $10 sunglasses. Then I'd find a coffeeshop. And I'd sit there, feeling the caffeine ooze into my blood, [...]
Valentine’s Day in Boston ideas: Shoulda put a ring on it
Since my foray in Jewish speed dating clearly hasn't earned me a date for Valentine's Day, I'm turning all my brilliant ideas over to you, dear reader. This list of a sugar-themed crawl of Cambridge is meant primarily for the adventurous and thrifty, a winning combination in my eyes. I realize that my awkwardly inserted mentions of makeouts perhaps should be cut. I've spent too long with my [...]
Harvard Square Cafes: the definitive guide
Harvard Square is home not only to a lot of foot-fetishizing Japanese tourists and uppity academics, but also an overwhelming number of cafes. For real cafe die-hards, these businesses are much more than a coffee dispenser. (I'm looking at you, the one nursing your $3 latte for 6 hours.) Here's to admitting that your trapped-on-a-desert-island essentials include your Macbook, a wi-fi connection, [...]
Food porn of the day: Ten Tables Cambridge
I had some photos knocking around on my ever-trendy (and broken) Macbook, unshared, so here they are - the remnants of a meal from several months ago at Ten Tables, on the fringes of Harvard Square. I already posted the dessert portion - chocolate terrine with thai basil ice cream - which was my favorite course of the night. It combined the silkiness and unexpected flavor of the ice cream with [...]
Oggi’s “to die for” slice of the day
Steak pizza with fried shallots? It sounded promising, and it was indeed pretty tasty. The shallots added a lot of textural interest - plus they were kind of fun to eat, but didn't actually add any positive flavor to the slice. They'd clearly been sitting on a pan for a bit, so they weren't crunchy, and had been overcooked so they actually tasted bitter. As always, though, this place really [...]
Sublime fried eggplant salad at Cafe Algiers
Algiers is the kind of place that I often throw out as a good first date location: it has charm, a bit of old world romance, and that je ne sais quoi flavor of bohemian Cambridge before the Gap moved in. However, I always throw in a word of caution that the prices are uh, pretty inflated. You pay for ambience in the form of 5 dollar coffees and $3.50 plain bagels (!). (They might even charge [...]
My favorite secret study spot in Harvard Square: Karma Tea
I may regret letting this one out of the bag, but Karma Tea on Mass Ave is a truly magical study nook. While it may be better known for the yoga studio attached to it, the floor-to-ceiling windows, rock sculptures, and comfy faux-suede chairs are every bit as zenergizing as the physical exertions in the studio upstairs. They carry vegan muffins from Veggie Planet (haven't sampled these, but [...]
HUDS food cart column in the Crimson
Check out my review of the HUDS food carts in the Crimson's Fifteen Minutes today... the print version is accompanied by a smiling photo of me cluthing two desecrated halves of whole wheat bread. Anyway, in the spirit of supplementary online content, here are the photos taken of my two meals. Probably more entertaining would be the outtakes for the column's photoshoot, where I start [...]
The Chinese Food Truck on Oxford St
I first spotted Yang's after my (baller) Sociology of Organizations class with Professor Ager. "A Chinese food truck!" I exclaimed and did one of my strange, gleeful flails - I kind of flap around my arms as if I'm trapped in a tiny bubble and make high pitched noises. So after class today, I gave it a try. There were a lot of Chinese people in line. After being removed from the Middle Kingdom [...]
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