A Great Place to be Tied to: MAST’ has deliciousness in “abundanza” (Originally posed 12/15)

 

No bar and grill, this. MAST’ (www.mastboston.com) at 45 Province Street in Boston’s quickly re-flourishing Downtown Crossing entitles itself as a restaurant and “drinkery.” And whether you look around the comfily swanky multi-leveled venue or at the broadsheet menu, you will easily see how this name came to be.

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Bringing the Buzz to Harvard Square – Restaurateur Jack Bardy finds a new Hôtel

Boston’s South End has long been known for two things- great art and great food. With its bevy of theatre and gallery spaces and its Zagat’s-busting list of award-winning eateries, it is a great place for a date or a destination.

In 2007, the board of the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) were trying to find a new use for what had once been the loading docks of the Boston flower market (now the Cyclorama). They needed to bring in the right team to add a bit of spark to an underdeveloped underground space.

Fortunately, they did not have to look far.

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Out of This World! – JP’s Bella Luna is a neighborhood place worth leaving your neighborhood for! (Originally published 1/15)

Every neighborhood has that place- That special place where the owners and bartenders know who you are and welcome you with a warm smile even if they do not. That place where you can come as you are and leave satisfied, knowing that you had a good meal and a good time.

For the denizens of Jamaica Plain, Bella Luna is that place. Fortunately, it is large and warm and welcoming enough to encourage and invite people from all neighborhoods with the same warm welcome and great food and entertainment.

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Mass (Ave) Appeal – Even on a restaurant-clogged street, Moksa stands out! (Originally published 6/14)

Amidst the vegan also-rans and organic leftovers of Cambridge’s Central Square is a place that truly offers something new, fresh, different and always exciting!

Created by award-winning restaurateur Solmon Chowdury, whose pair of Shanti restaurants in Dorchester and Roslindale Village are redefining what Indian dining can be in the Boston area, Moksa combines innovative takes on Asian “street” food with a nightlife scene that rivals any street in the area as well!

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It’s Hip to be Squares – 3 Squares sets the table morning, noon and night (Originally published 11/13)

With its great schools, plentiful public parks, and more hairdressers, banks and chic consignment stores than even it knows what to do with, the town of Needham continues to be a hot market for old pros and new families.

Finally, there is a new restaurant worthy of all of them that is also bringing people from other ‘burbs and beyond.

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You Belong Here – Brahmin makes you feel right at home with old-school comfort and new-school flair (Originally published 10/11)

And this is good old Boston,

The home of the bean and the cod,

Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots,

And the Cabots talk only to God.

So goes the old rhyme of the Boston Brahmins, a select group of well-to-do aristocrats who ruled the city and (in their own minds at least) the world.

While the once awe-inspiring names Lowell and Cabot may now be relegated to industrial mill towns, amazing third basemen, creameries and ice cream shops, the style in which they once lived lives on in another new positive addition to Stanhope Street that is called, appropriately enough, Brahmin.

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