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Melting Spot

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

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

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

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

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

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...