Where You Should Be Drinking in Boston: Bronwyn After a two year absence, we returned to our home in Union Square noticing some things we'd overlooked the first time around. For instance, we noticed just how fast and recklessly cars whip around the corner in front...
Where You Should Be Drinking: Kirkland Tap & Trotter Halfway between our Union Square condo and Harvard Yard, the perfect distance for an evening stroll, is Kirkland Tap & Trotter, the second restaurant by Tony Maws, chef of the famed Craigie on Main. Tap & Trotter...
Where You Should Be Drinking in Boston: Ward 8 Everything we know about Boston's West End, we owe to Dennis Lehane. Apparently, in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, the West End was the second stop on an immigrants' path to assimilation...
Baldwin & Sons Trading Co., Vol. 2 By now we've probably made our admiration of Baldwin & Sons Trading Company pretty clear (here, here, here, and here). While it certainly has competition (Drink and Waypoint, for instance), we think that this quirky Chinese restaurant in the...
Where You Should Be Drinking in Cambridge: UpperWest As we mentioned yesterday, we recently took a swing through our old home of Cambridge on the way to a vacation on Cape Cod. Along the way we thought we'd use our trip as a way to scope...
Where You Should Be Drinking: Waypoint in Cambridge On our way to Cape Cod, we made a prolonged stop in Cambridge to visit friends and to volunteer at Soccer Nights, a one of a kind summer evening soccer clinic for low-income, immigrant youth. One of us...
Where You Should Be Drinking: Juliet We mentioned yesterday that we recently celebrated a birthday dinner at Red Hen. Well, that was just birthday dinner one of two. Our birthdays are less than a week apart; so we could, if we wanted, just do one combined...
Where You Should Be Drinking: Boston's Porto We've told you probably endlessly how we lived in Boston for many years. We've been in the District for long enough that we should probably stop mentioning Boston, right? Well it still holds such a fond place in our...
12 Drinks of Christmas 2016: Girl from Ipanema Cocktail Recipe Happy holidays! It's the time of the year for holiday decorations, twinkling lights, warm spices, and a rolling series of parties, gatherings, and celebrations. For the second year in a row, we'll be adding to the festivities...
Throwing your Drink I wrote at the beginning of the week that I was back in Boston a couple of weekends ago and--though my latest obsession in the Boston cocktail scene is Baldwin & Sons Trading Company--I made it a point to return to an old standard, Drink in...