Dining

Allston Domino's says late-night delivery would mean less crime, fewer drunk drivers and health insurance for single moms

By adamg - 3/28/12 - 5:28 pm

For 20 minutes today, a meeting of the Boston Licensing Board became a battleground for the very soul of Allston.

In one corner, a Domino's franchise owner who wants to be able to deliver pizza until 3 a.m. every night of the week and the night owls who vow to consume its food. In the other corner, the Allston Civic Association and residents who say they just want to be able to sleep through the night. In the middle: The three members of the licensing board, who vote tomorrow on whether to let the franchise extend its hours to 3 a.m. every day, rather than just on Fridays and Saturdays.

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Whose Patio? Our Patio!

By adamg - 3/28/12 - 4:19 pm

JP Patch reports the Whole Foods in Jamaica Plain will be seeking a license to let people eat its food on the premises, both inside and outside.

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Allston just wasn't ready for craft beer

By adamg - 3/28/12 - 11:30 am

The owner of the soon-to-be-reborn Joshua Tree today said its brief foray into a purveyor of craft beers just wasn't working out.

Julian Bolger appeared before the Boston Licensing Board to seek permission to change Barley Hall back into Joshua Tree.

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Stud Sex Power available again in Boston area

By adamg - 3/22/12 - 8:42 am

Annabelle reports on some of the "bietary fupplements" available at Kam Man, which replaced the Super 88 in South Bay. And, yes, they include Stud Sex Power, that incandescent blend of "power herbs and root tonic," that is no doubt way better than the stuff more conventional stores carry.

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Barley Hall to become Joshua Tree again

By adamg - 3/21/12 - 9:09 pm

The owners of Barley Hall, 1314 Commonwealth Ave. in Allston, go before the Boston Licensing Board on Wednesday to ask permission to change its name back to Joshua Tree, which is what they called it until last summer.

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2012 Boston food-truck schedule announced

By adamg - 3/20/12 - 2:39 pm

Know before you go.

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Is JP losing its revolutionary edge?

By adamg - 3/19/12 - 3:48 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports the owner of the pla

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Good jambalaya in Boston or Cambridge?

By adamg - 3/16/12 - 2:20 pm

Phil wants to know where to find it.

Food blogger says he wasn't aware Boston Globe now printed in a glass house

By adamg - 3/15/12 - 9:12 am

The Passionate Foodie fires back at the Globe for a piece that raised ethical questions about bloggers who accept free meals from local restaurants, by charging the author has herself accepted free stuff:

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Two new pubs could soon open back to back and side to side in Forest Hills

By adamg - 3/13/12 - 4:00 pm

Soon-to-be Tonic and Napper Dandy's.

The owners of two pubs across from the Forest Hills T stop today assured the Boston Licensing Board their openings are imminent.

Owners of both Tonic, going into the old Paul Griffin's bar and Napper Tandy's, going into a long-shuttered barbershop right next door, were before the board to explain why their liquor licenses, granted in early 2011 and late 2010, shouldn't be revoked for non-use.

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'Embarrassed' manager at West Roxbury Corrib fires two waitresses who let a pair of 20-year-olds drink beers

By adamg - 3/13/12 - 12:21 pm

Managers at certain Boston restaurants and bars make frequent trips to the Boston Licensing Board to answer police citations for liquor-law violations. The Corrib Pub in West Roxbury is not one of them. Today, however, Corrib manager Tony Bligh had to explain why police on a routine inspection found two 20-year-old women with Coors Lites in front of them on Jan. 5.

Bligh offered no excuses - in fact, he read a statement that started, "I am embarrassed to be in front of this board."

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JP Licks loses lease on Newbury Street

By adamg - 3/12/12 - 3:44 pm

Boston Tweet reports there'll be no hemp ice cream for Back Bay residents.

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Newbury Street to get a food trolley by the Green Line

By adamg - 3/12/12 - 9:31 am

Rendering via MBTA.

Clover, best known for its vegetarian food trucks, will be setting up shop this spring in an MBTA-owned spot on Newbury Street near Mass. Ave., around the corner from the entrance to Hynes station.

The T says Clover will pay $1,000 a month - and utilities - for the right to occupy the space for one year.

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Fishing for news at the convention center

By adamg - 3/12/12 - 8:21 am

The Passionate Foodie displays some repertorial herring-do as he roams the floor at the annual International Boston Seafood Show.

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Holy cannoli: Complaint from grumpy Worcesterite could force Mike's to display prices

By adamg - 3/9/12 - 3:54 pm

The Worcester Telegram picks up the cudgel of a Worcester County resident feeling put out by the way Mike's on Hanover Street doesn't display prices for any of its baked goods. Quotes both a state official who says that's just against the law, and a clearly annoyed Mike's manager, who says he had no idea that was a law and that this is the first time in 60 years anybody's ever complained.

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Checking out the new tapas place in Kendall Square

By adamg - 3/9/12 - 6:39 am

Megan checks out Kika Tapas in Kendall Square and vows to return:

A dish you can't go wrong with is the queso de cabra montanes (baked goat cheese in tomato basil sauce). We slathered the sauce and cheese on fresh bread. It made for a rich, comforting combination (and reminded us of when we were roommates, living about a block away from Dali, where we'd get this small plate often).

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Cavalcade of cafes continues at Brighton corner

By adamg - 3/8/12 - 10:25 am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Dash Cafe will soon replace Abby's Cafe, which replaced the Happy Owl Cafe, which took the place of Cafe 57 & Grille at the corner of Henshaw and Cambridge in Brighton, across from St. E's.

You think maybe they should stop using "Cafe" in the name?