Daily Nutmeg

Melting Spot
Peruvian food is perhaps the most diverse and intriguing cuisine I’ve encountered, merging indigenous produce and dishes—potatoes, aji peppers, ceviche—with ingredients and techniques—French fries, ginger, rotisserie—from around the globe. At...
Melting Spot
Peruvian food is perhaps the most diverse and intriguing cuisine I’ve encountered, merging indigenous produce and dishes—potatoes, aji peppers, ceviche—with ingredients and techniques—French fries, ginger, rotisserie—from around the globe. At...

Season to Taste
Clouds like whitecaps lapping slowly at the sunset. Families and friends in short sleeves and sundresses. A sea of ship masts in silhouette. It isn’t summer yet, but, for a...
Season to Taste
Clouds like whitecaps lapping slowly at the sunset. Families and friends in short sleeves and sundresses. A sea of ship masts in silhouette. It isn’t summer yet, but, for a...

Resetting the Bar
The mark of a great bar is its power to make someone else’s place feel like it’s your own. That’s how the barroom at Da Legna, back when it was...
Resetting the Bar
The mark of a great bar is its power to make someone else’s place feel like it’s your own. That’s how the barroom at Da Legna, back when it was...

Lesson Is More
I’m not ashamed to say Chipotle was my downtown burrito go-to before it closed, ostensibly temporarily, last September. But the closure did recently nudge me to step outside both habit...
Lesson Is More
I’m not ashamed to say Chipotle was my downtown burrito go-to before it closed, ostensibly temporarily, last September. But the closure did recently nudge me to step outside both habit...

Cocktail Reception
Two weeks ago yesterday, Hachiroku’s empire of local Japanese restobars gained its fourth outpost in three years: 116 Cocktail Bar by Hachiroku. Customers of the address’s former tenant, 116 Crown,...
Cocktail Reception
Two weeks ago yesterday, Hachiroku’s empire of local Japanese restobars gained its fourth outpost in three years: 116 Cocktail Bar by Hachiroku. Customers of the address’s former tenant, 116 Crown,...

March Gladness
Shimmering dots of rain darted like schools of fish through the lamplight last night as I walked to The Trinity, where a standing-room crowd peppered with Yale shirts and hats...
March Gladness
Shimmering dots of rain darted like schools of fish through the lamplight last night as I walked to The Trinity, where a standing-room crowd peppered with Yale shirts and hats...