‘Food’ Archives
Food porn: Dinner at Helmand in Kendall Square, Cambridge
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Time for tapas at Ken Oringer’s Toro in Boston
The streets are slush. It’s late, past 9pm, and the MBTA’s 1 bus is late, too – lumbering around the corner like the crankiest of grandfathers, bearing nothing but ill will and obligation. It wheels through Cambridge to Boston, ribbed rubber floor collecting more slush as passengers board. My dining partner boards at Commonwealth and Mass Ave, half grin, hat pulled over eyebrows. Off we [...]
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 [...]
1am at IHOP in Harvard Square
The crowds at IHOP at 1am are slicked in glitter and glisten with booze. There's an overlit garishness to the place, from the orange neon chrome of the coffeepot to the candy hues of flavored syrups. Diners congregate over sugar-sogged pancakes and chicken tenders while waiters dance anxiously around them - the picture of well-meaning inefficiency. You order the harvest grain 'n nut pancakes [...]
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 [...]
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