Dining Out Boston

At the Oak Bar you will appreciate the difference between a $7 and a $16 martini.
The Oak Bar is an ornate, old-boys’-club style hideaway where everyone can feel comfortable. Located in the Fairmont Copley, the Oak Bar (and accompanying restaurant, The Oak Room), is all upper-crust elegance without the overt snootiness. Young and […]

People often assert the fact that Ireland has no distinct cuisine, but those people are wrong. Although there are plenty of blurry boundaries regarding the origin of fish and chips, bangers and mash, or shephard’s pie, there are a number of distinctly Irish dishes dishes, e.g. soda bread, colcannon (potatoes and cabbage), and champ […]

God, I love Zaftig’s. And judging from the crowds outside on Sunday morning, so do a lot of people. Bunches bought me breakfast this morning to mollify my grumpiness, and when in Brookline, Zaftig’s is the only place to go.
On a Thursday morning it was obviously far less crowded, a fact […]