WITH SPRING JUST ABOUT HERE, you know what comes next: rejiggering the diet to accommodate a warm-weather wardrobe. Enter the niçoise salad, a classic combo of protein (thick chunks of tuna — usually poached — and bits of hard-boiled egg),…
Free Cookie75 Chestnut(Tue. night) Mini cheese samplerAquitaine(bar only, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Sun.-Thu.) $1 Island Creek oystersRialto(bar only, Mon. after 5:30 p.m.) King crab legsStix(bar and patio only, 5-7 p.m. Tue.-Fri.) RibsHigh Street Grill(9-10:30 p.m. Fri) Wings(10 cents)Asgard Irish Pub(pub only,…
Three Value-Packed Tasting Menus And why $40 is the new right price for a memorable meal. How to… Beat the Salad Bar BoondoggleTo find the least we could pay while still getting full, we built three salads and recorded the…
The Scooper Bowl June 10 & 11, Noon-8 p.m. City Hall Plaza Get your spoon warmed up (or cooled down) for all the ice cream, frozen yogurt, sorbet, or gelati you can eat. Try as many as you’d like guilt…
***** Petit Robert Bistro Chef Jacky Robert’s traditional preparation begins with a rich, beefy broth—nicely salted and (this is key) not too sweet, with a hint of white wine. French-bread croutons and caramelized onions, along with a crisp-around-the-edges blanket of Swiss…
Gaslight offers affordable food, friendly service, and a strong sense of déjà vu. It would be hard to devise a restaurant more formulaic than Gaslight, the noisy South End brasserie on the hopping stretch of Harrison Avenue that’s well on…
