Boston Restaurant Talk reports the Chateau, a chain of big ol' Italian restaurants, is opening its seventh location on the John Mahar Highway near South Braintree Square.

We go the one on Rte. 1 in Norwood sometimes. It's pretty cool in an Anthony's Pier 4/Ken's kind of way, only without the sad days-gone-by vibe you sometimes get in those places (plus, there's something relaxing about watching people practice their putting at the golf course on the other side of the picture windows).

Wicked Local Arlington reports that Sheriff's deputies [url=http://www.wickedlocal.com/arlington/news/x206844482/Mill-Street-Brighams-shuttered-on-Nov-13]closed the Mill Street Brigham's on Friday the 13th[/url] after its owner, Deal Metrics LLC of Baltimore, failed to pay rent. The restaurant adjoined the company's now-closed ice cream factory.

Three days earlier, the [url=http://www.universalhub.com/node/28878]High Street Brigham's in downtown Boston was closed[/url] in a similarly abrupt fashion.

David runs down all the Chinese restaurants within three miles of Out of Town News, finds all of them lacking. Mary Chung, he notes, is just outside his Circle of Desolation:

It's 3.2 miles along Mass Ave - give or take – between Mary Chung and Qing Dao Garden, and as far as I'm concerned, there’s not much to eat Chinese-wise along that strip, which encompasses three of the major squares of Cambridge. Sort of disgraceful, don't you think? ...

BellyGlad reports on a talk about raising urban chickens, says there are lots of live chickens living in Cambridgeport, while Somerville bans chicken raising. Also:

Shredded junk mail makes great chicken litter.

Jay Fitzgerald has no objections to a restaurant on the Common. But he takes issue with one called Shake Shack:

... But you just know the same types who think "SoWa" is such a cool name will go with the "beloved" Shake Shack – and then they'll lecture us about having an inferiority complex while they’re off aping everything Manhattan. They'll never understand that it's not about New York – or Kansas City. It's about losing a little local character every time they plunk an out-of-state chain or name on an historic area. ...

Penny Cherubino reports that Speed's, the hot-dog truck in Newmarket Square, could be moving to a permanent storefront. In the meantime, on Nov. 16, 17 and 18, you'll find the truck at 960 Morrissey Blvd., she reports.

The Boston Licensing Board yesterday ordered the owner of 5 North Square to take out the bar seats in a room where servers pick up drinks and patrons wait for tables.

The move came after complaints from some nearby residents about the restaurant's "service" bar, which is only supposed to prepare drinks for patrons eating meals, but which had a few seats at which waiting patrons could order both food and drinks from waitresses.

The restaurant had asked the board to remove the "service" restriction, but the board voted to keep that restriction in place. It also ruled waiting patrons could be served no more than one drink while waiting.

Mac and Cheese Takedown this Sunday at Great Scott, 1222 Comm. Ave. in Allston: $10 gets you in the door to sample everybody's macaroni and cheese (including your own) and help declare a winner (who gets a six-month membership in a mac-and-cheese-of-the-month club).

Via Allston City Limits.

The well known Savin Hill restaurant and bar is shuttered today. Nobody's answering the phone and the Web site's been turned off.

The Hyde Park Bulletin recently reported owner Arthur Donovan had defaulted on $300,000 in loans from the city for his never-opened Hyde Park location.

Patrick Maguire read that list of 100 things restaurant workers should never do. On Server Not Servant, he retorts with 64 suggestions for restaurant customers, based on his personal experience as a bartender and restaurant manager and a survey of 150 local restaurant servers:

• Don't throw a menu at the host and walk out yelling because there's a long wait or you don't like the menu or prices.
• Don't even jokingly threaten your server with a bad on-line review to curry favor.
• Don’t indignantly tell the staff what they should have on the menu, the wine list or the liquor shelf.