Dining Out Boston

Went to the friends and family night opening at Haru last friday. The New York based sushi chain has opened in the Prudential Center where Dick’s Last Resort used to be. The place has been transformed into a moden asian sanctuary featuring a glassed-in garden in the main dining room.
It was packed when we first […]

File this under places that suck for a myriad of reasons.
There’s a roof deck at the rattlesnake, but the view is only of the gross walls of the buildings next to it, and on the roof they have cheap plastic furniture. On a nice day, the roof is probably packed, so don’t even bother trying […]

Last Tuesday I ventured to try Coolidge Corner’s alternative to Rami’s, Shawarma King, which, as it turns out, is more expensive and not worth it.
Shawarma King’s decor is as low-key as Rami’s, with non-descript cheap tables and chairs and a smattering of Middle Eastern wall-hangings and doodads. Their menu, however, is far more extensive, […]

The following account of my lunch at Ivy will most likely not do justice to the food. It was a meal where the occasion wholly overshadowed the cuisine; Feng announced minutes before we entered that she and Grant were engaged. Huzzah! Many congratulations to the happy couple.
Located in the Ladder District, Ivy has the […]

If Davis Square seems too far a trek for finger-lickin’ barbeque, new kid on the block Soul Fire is a cheaper, quality alternative right off the B-line.
Wyeth Lynch, owner and founder of Soul Fire, conducted in-depth research on the origin and variations of barbecue and it shows. Lynch graduated from Williams College, […]

John Harvard’s Brewhouse may be Harvard Square’s only tourist attraction where Harvard students actually hang out, despite the garrish decorations devoted to the university namesake and the strick ID policy.

At one time the over-sized, underground brewpub offered half-price appetizers on Mondays after 10pm, drawing schmoozing business school grads and clamoring freshman. Now, however, John […]

In between rainstorms this past weekend, I visited PICCO, or Pizza and Ice Cream Company, a cutesy pizza and ice cream parlor in the South End.

Despite the frequent showers, PICCO was hoppin’ and we sat at the bar to avoid waiting for a table. After some flagging, a waitress distributed red-rimmed menus and told […]

On Friday night, Ariel and I met in Downtown Crossing and began our trek to Orinoco, the South End’s hot-shot Venezuelan restaurant, which as I mentioned previously, has been written up in the New York Times, Improper Bostonian, etc., etc.
Fast forward 45min. later: Ariel and I are drenched, darting from doorway to doorway in the […]

This review is long overdue, considering Bunches has been waiting tables at Croma for more than a month and I have been pledging just as long to visit him at work.
The old Croma burned down 18 months after its orginal opening and a new version rose from the ashes like a pizza-obsessed Phoenix. New […]

The Quincy Posse is breaking up. We’ve known for a while that Feng was heading to Mountainview, CA in August to apply her surfing skills, but suddenly Genevieve too is moving to the Sunshine State to work in cosumer insight for a wine company.
On Saturday night, we gathered for a send-off dinner at Rendezvous […]