restaurants

Dinner at Angela’s Coal Fire Pizza

Sometimes you just want good pizza. Sometimes you want fancy, gourmet and unique pizza. But sometimes you just want good, reliable pizza. Today was a great day for good pizza. I’ve visited Angela’s Coal Fired Pizza in Saugus, Massachusetts a few times. Each visit has gotten progressively better. Early on, there were too many toppings,

ShoutOut: The Independent

by Maggie Battista

Earlier this week, I had a very fine dinner at a cozy neighborhood joint called The Independent. Somerville’s Union Square has very much swanked up, but this place has been a solid pillar as the new establishments open, get too hip and disappear. I don’t get to hang in the area often, so I jumped

ShoutOut: Tryst in Beverly, Massachusetts

by Maggie Battista

Tryst is a boutique, 30-seat restaurant in the heart of downtown Beverly, Massachusetts – a small town on the North Shore of Boston that caters to a little art college, the Summer beach crowd, local folk and affluent types. This little town has exploded with upscale restaurants on par with those in Boston and better

Boutique Restaurant: Myers+Chang

by Maggie Battista

Today, I finally got a chance to sample the lunch cuisine at the boutique restaurant Myers+Chang in the South End of Boston. (Be careful if you pop up their website, the music is way loud and way appropriate for the restaurant’s ambiance and aesthetic.) We (me and a friend, Lise) arrived around 1 PM to

Boutique Underground Restaurant: Love+Butter

by Maggie Battista

Finally! An underground restaurant in Boston! Someone invite me! (Published in the The Boston Globe today.)

New Restaurant from Arrow’s Owners/Chefs in My Own Backyard

by Maggie Battista

I am on cloud nine this morning. I am floating on thin air. I am in heaven, totally excited about a new restaurant that is opening just down the street from me. I just heard that Mark Gaier and Clark Frasier, chefs/owners of the award-winning, incredibly-expensive Arrows in Ogunquit, Maine, are opening a new restaurant

Pane e Salute: Shutting Down Shop, for now

by Maggie Battista

One of my favorite boutique restaurants in New England is closing down for the season. They do this twice a year. Vermont restaurants are a tough business, very seasonal. Here’s their shutting down shop post. I’ve been meaning to write a long post about so many of our fabulous meals there. I hope to get

ShoutOut: Boutique Froyo

by Maggie Battista

Oh my goodness! All I have to say is “Oh my goodness!” I know Pinkberry has taken the world (or, most of Los Angeles) by storm, but we don’t need them – we have BerryLine! This new independent froyo shop just opened off of Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts by two “long time friends looking

ShoutOut: Boutique Restaurant

by Maggie Battista

Imagine a 50-seat shack on the Martha’s Vineyard coastline filled with mismatched tables and chairs, 50s-style signs and artwork and a diverse mix of folks from all over the east coast. I was so feeling all of this at the Art Cliff Diner that my husband and I dined there three mornings in a row.

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