Your Chowder hounds have sniffed down the best culinary events in town. Check back every Thursday for your weekly prix-fixe of foodie feasts, cooking classes, wine tastings, and more.
May 1, 6:30 p.m. Heading Home
Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel, $250
Help Shelter in their efforts to end homelessness by attending this fundraiser, which will involve 25 of the area’s greatest chefs and restaurants, including Chez Henri, Oishii, The Olive Group, Pigalle, Rialto, Spire,Tremont 647, Upstairs on the Square, and more. Guests will also hear from special guest speaker Jeanette Walls, author of New York Times bestseller “The Glass Castle,” a memoir about growing up homeless.
Get your Italian fix without the parking fiasco. Forty-four popular North End restaurants, including Antico Forno, Eclano, Fiore, Mare, Mike’s Pastry, Taranta, Terramia, Tresca, and many more come together for an evening of fine dining to benefit the Cam Neely Foundation. (more…)
Your Chowder hounds have sniffed down the best culinary events in town. Check back every Thursday for your weekly prix-fixe of foodie feasts, cooking classes, wine tastings, and more.
Celebrate the addition of a new life-size Qajar dynasty painting of a female dancer to the restaurant. The evening will begin with a discussion lead by Persian art collector Elmar Seibel, who is also president and owner of Ars Libri, and a former overseer of the MFA. A three-course dinner with wine pairings will follow.
Spend the evening discovering new wines from Cocci Grifoni, an estate in the coastal region of Central Italy’s Marches, which has reinvented the pecorino grape. Sommelier Jeannie Rogers will present the evening’s featured bottles, while guests savor a four-course menu, including mussels in white wine, black linguine with calamari, ramps, and garlic, citrus marinated Giannone chicken, and mixed berries with zabaglione. (more…)
Your Chowder hounds have sniffed down the best culinary events in town. Check back every Thursday for your weekly prix-fixe of foodie feasts, cooking classes, wine tastings, and more.
Enjoy an evening of Loire-inspired recipes paired with the region’s crisp, aromatic, mineral-accented wines. The six-course wine dinner will be hosted master sommelier Sandy Block, and Director of Culinary Operations Jeff Tenner. (more…)
Your Chowder hounds have sniffed down the best culinary events in town. Check back every Thursday for your weekly prix-fixe of foodie feasts, cooking classes, wine tastings, and more.
April 10, 6:30-9 p.m.
Taste of the Nation Boston
Hynes Convention Center, $85 (advance); $95 (door) VIP: $135 (advance); $145 (door)
Boston’s hottest chefs and restaurants are donating their time and cuisine for Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation, which raises funds to fight childhood hunger in Boston and across America. More than 80 of the city’s finest will participate, including Andy Husbands of Tremont 647, as well as Hamersley’s Bistro, Rialto, Radius, Icarus, Gargoyles on the Square, Les Zygomates, East Coast Grill, KO Prime, and more.
Starting today, your Chowder hounds will sniff down the best culinary events in town. Check back every Thursday for your weekly prix-fixe of foodie feasts, cooking classes, wine tastings, and more.
Winemaker Dino Mencarini will introduce pairings while Steven Brand serves up four courses, including crab salad with grapefruit and avocado, green garlic soup with poached egg, and more. (more…)
Keeping track of Boston’s dining scene can feel almost as daunting as nabbing a table at Miracle of Science. Chowder scours the internet for the latest news on what’s coming and the loss of a great innovator.
Opening
Old-school Italian favorite Cafe Marliave will be reopened by Grotto, according to Boston Restaurant Talk. Boston.com’s Dishing blog has the details.
“The Marliave will reopen this spring and will feature two dining rooms and an oyster bar. The menus will reflect the history of the establishment, which has operated as a French, Italian, and New England restaurant, and even as a speakeasy and illegal distillery (liquor and label print equipment was seized many times during Prohibition). . . .”
Keeping track of Boston’s dining scene can feel almost as daunting as completing the Eagle Deli’s Challenge Burger. Chowder scours the internet for the latest news on what’s coming, what’s closing, and who’s on Iron Chef.
Closing
The North End’s La Brace has closed, according to Boston Restaurant Talk. The site also reports that Coolidge Corner sushi joint Takeshima shut its doors and reopened as Blue Ocean, which has a similar menu. Thank God another sushi place replaced Takeshima. That way Brookline will continue to be well on its way to 17th sushi restaurant.
Chain dining aficionados will be sad to learn that the Chili’s in the Copley Place Mall has gone to that great fajita skillet in the sky. Mall representatives wouldn’t tell Boston Menu Pages what will fill the vacancy, but there’s always hope for another Margarita’s. (more…)
Chowder’s favorite time of the year is the months-long bingefest between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve. But Boston Restaurant Week ranks a close second as our favorite foodie time of year. Reservations are being accepted for the March restaurant week, which actually runs for two weeks (March 9-14 and March 16-21).
After the jump, we give you some tips on how to get the most out of your Restaurant Week reservation.
May 1, 6:30 p.m.
April 24, 5:30-8:30 p.m.
April 24, 6 p.m.
April 17, 6-8 p.m.
April 10, 6:30-9 p.m.
April 3, 6:30 p.m.
Chowder’s favorite time of the year is the months-long bingefest between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve. But