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Thanksgiving's is just like home after the holiday
There are the moments when the solitary life is unbearable, but Thanksgiving is not one of them. No matter how distant you have grown from family or friends, you find a home to arrive at with a dish in hand.
By BRIAN DUFF | November 26, 2008

Restaurant Marliave

Introducing a menu that multitasks
The Marliave is 132 years old. It opened as a French restaurant, survived Prohibition as a speakeasy, and at some point became Italian.
By ROBERT NADEAU | November 26, 2008

T's

The definitive family breakfast restaurant
How in the world can a restaurant that serves only breakfast and lunch — the least expensive two-thirds of the business — stay in business?
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | November 26, 2008

Erbaluce

Elaborate cuisine that's simply delicious
If they start rotisserie leagues for restaurants, I'm never going to draft a chef in the first round. I just can't follow them all, what with their constant job changes and stints working for other chefs — for a week, for a year, taking out the garbage, who knows?
By ROBERT NADEAU | November 19, 2008

Cantina La Mexicana

A modest taqueria expands to go a little bit uptown
I've long been a patron of the eccentrically capitalized TaQueria La Mexicana in Somerville's Union Square, relying on it for tasty, cheap tacos from actual Mexican owners.
By MC SLIM JB | November 19, 2008

The borscht I kissed once...

...in an underground hallway — and rediscovered at home
When I was working at the Harraseeket Inn in Freeport, two housekeepers who didn't speak English but giggled a lot brought in a pot of their family's borscht for the employee meal. In the dark basement hall where the employees ate, I tasted serious family-secret-cooking.
By LINDSAY STERLING | November 19, 2008

El Tapatio

South of Providence, south of the border
Once upon a time, Rhode Islanders would have been enormously grateful to have a Mexican restaurant like El Tapatio in our midst: good burritos, enchiladas, and fajitas
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | November 19, 2008

Roadhouse Craft Beer & BBQ

Off to a (somewhat) smoky start
So, about the long-awaited Roadhouse Craft Beer & BBQ, sister restaurant to the popular Publick House, which has finally been rebuilt, licensed, and is now open.
By ROBERT NADEAU | November 12, 2008

Estoril

Inexpensive elegance
Usually, an ethnic restaurant in Rhode Island means one of two things: cheap eats or fancy surroundings. Estoril, in Fall River, offers a twofer — chandelier and cloth napkin elegance, plus good Portuguese food that’s surprisingly inexpensive.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | November 12, 2008

The Battery

Fried fish to make an Irishman misty
Standing in a long queue of Irish ex-pats at the Battery, a new counter-service fish-and-chips shop in Brighton Center, I pondered what local foods I'd miss if I moved overseas.
By MC SLIM JB | November 13, 2008

Machupicchu Restaurante

A little corner of Peru

By BILL RODRIGUEZ | November 05, 2008

Winsor Dim Sum Café

Dim sum all day and night
At most of Boston’s dim-sum palaces, my strategy has always been to sit near the kitchen door, to get the little plates off the cart when they’re hottest.
By ROBERT NADEAU | November 06, 2008

Oran Café

Revelatory Moroccan, served without frills
Recently, Boston Chowhounds steered me to Oran Café, a two-month-old Moroccan restaurant in East Boston that has much in common with Angela’s.
By MC SLIM JB | November 06, 2008

Timing is everything

Experimenting pays off at Solo Bistro
Solo Bistro is a good place to sit out the suspense of this passing of the torch.
By BRIAN DUFF | November 05, 2008

The Green Tomato 2

A Somerville cafeteria escapes the horror of Lunch Lady Land
Cafeterias — the kind of restaurant where you push a tray along a line and get served by counter help instead of having food brought to your table by a waiter — don’t have the greatest associations.
By MC SLIM JB | October 29, 2008

BOKX 109

Go meat in Newton
To get questions about the name out of the way, “bokx” is the industry term for boxed cuts of meat, and number 109 is prime rib.
By ROBERT NADEAU | October 29, 2008

Broadway Bistro

Setting a subtle mood
Broadway Bistro has a prime corner location with large windows looking onto the historic street in its name, as well as onto a side street.
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | October 29, 2008

Sweet genius

The Vietnamese bánh mì — created to please
While the charms of Kim’s are ineffable, we can explain why the occupied Vietnamese invented such a delicious sandwich.
By BRIAN DUFF | October 29, 2008

Dear Mr. President . . .

Redefining ‘Road Trip’
Since March 1, Massachusetts school teacher B.J. Hill has been walking across the country in near Kerouacian fashion — though, unlike Sal Paradise, Hill has a greater mission than apple pie and Mexican trollops.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | October 30, 2008

Kookoo

Gourmet hideaway
Much like the pottery studio on the Station Street block in Brookline Village, Kookoo is practically imperceptible to the average passerby. In fact, were it not for the chalkboard easel of menu items out front on the sidewalk, you could easily miss it — but your loss would be considerable.
By Liz Bomze | October 27, 2008

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