Category Archives: Restaurants
A Pick and a Pan
Two restaurants this month – too hot to cook. The Pan Chianti Tuscan Restaurant, Beverly, MA. Not really a pan … rather, a semi-pan. We went there on a Friday night and were able to get seats outdoors, which should have been our first clue. But, ever optimistic, we trekked from Andover to Beverly.
Good Dining, Great Atmosphere
ROAD TRIP!!! Went to Portsmouth, NH Saturday night and found an absolutely delightful place to eat. Actually, two of them — right across the street from each other. Actually, we ate at one, and the other is owned by the same two people, so we guess it’s equally good. The place we went was The [...]
Yo, Mamma!
OK, let’s face it… Cambridge is the new food Mecca. Yeah, Boston has more than its share of good and great restaurants (see d bar, Dorchester earlier this year) but on a per capita basis, Cambridge takes the cake. Let’s take for example the restaurant that led to the title of this piece, Hungry Mother, [...]
A Tale of Two Restaurants
As Dickens might say, “It was the best of meals; it was the worst of meals.” Kathy (my wife) and I like Italian restaurants. I mean, who doesn’t? It’s like Chinese or Mexican – ya gotta love it. And of course there are two kinds of Italian restaurants — the destination restaurant and the neighborhood-good-food-Nana-style [...]
Great Grub – dbar, Roxbury, MA
Besides golf, in my spare time, my wife, Kathy, and I love to find new, exciting, vibrant restaurants. We’re foodies. Well, actually, Kathy is a foodie; I’m just a glutton. I let her do all the work — she digs them up, knows all the chefs and their restaurants… you know, the hard part. I [...]