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Oleana (restaurant)
Oleana is an Inman Square (Cambridge, Massachusetts) fine dining, Middle Eastern restaurant owned by Ana Sortun and opened in 2001. The menu also has Mediterranean influences. Culinary influences on the menu include Spain, Turkey and Armenia. Honors and awards *2022 ''Boston (magazine)'' Best Middle Eastern Restaurant *Executive Chef Sortun and pastry chef Maura Kilpatrick have been nominated for James Beard Foundation Award The James Beard Foundation Awards are annual awards presented by the James Beard Foundation to recognize chefs, restaurateurs, authors and journalists in the United States. They are scheduled around James Beard's May 5 birthday. The media award ...s Including 2020, Best Pastry Chef and outstanding Chef References Fine dining restaurants in the United States Middle Eastern restaurants in the United States Restaurants in Cambridge, Massachusetts Inman Square {{US-restaurant-stub ...
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Inman Square
Inman Square is a neighborhood and historic district in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It lies north of Central Square, at the junction of Cambridge, Hampshire, and Inman Streets near the Cambridge– Somerville border. Location Like many squares in the Boston area, Inman Square refers both to an intersection and to a retail district and neighborhood. Current residents of the area seem to converge on a broad definition of Inman Square as the region centered on the intersection of Cambridge and Hampshire Streets. Geologically, the area is part of the larger Boston Basin and attaches to the relative lowland known as the Cambridge Plain. Originally, the land was both flat and surrounded by an irregular, swampy region that formed a natural boundary. Situated a short walk east of Harvard Square, north of Central Square, south of Union Square, and west of Lechmere (also known as East Cambridge), Inman Square is fairly centralized within the Mid-Cambridge/Somerville area. Hampshire ...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As part of the Boston metropolitan area, the cities population of the 2020 U.S. census was 118,403, making it the fourth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, Worcester, and Springfield. It is one of two de jure county seats of Middlesex County, although the county's executive government was abolished in 1997. Situated directly north of Boston, across the Charles River, it was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, once also an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Lesley University, and Hult International Business School are in Cambridge, as was Radcliffe College before it merged with Harvard. Kendall Square in Cambridge has been called "the most innovative square mile on the planet" owing to the high concentration of successful startups that have emerged in the vicinity ...
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Fine Dining
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Middle Eastern Cuisine
Middle Eastern cuisine or West Asian cuisine includes Arab, Armenian, Assyrian, Azerbaijani, Cypriot, Egyptian, Georgian, Iranian, Iraqi, Israeli, Kurdish, Lebanese, Palestinian and Turkish cuisines. Common ingredients include olives and olive oil, pitas, honey, sesame seeds, dates, sumac, chickpeas, mint, rice and parsley, and popular dishes include ''kebabs'', '' dolmas'', ''falafel'', '' baklava'', yogurt, ''doner kebab'', ''shawarma'' and ''mulukhiyah''. Geography The exact countries considered to be part of the Middle East are difficult to determine as the definition has changed over time and from source to source. Currently the countries that are considered to comprise the Middle East are: Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Palestine, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. However, Middle Eastern cuisine includes dishes from Arab, Armenian, Assyrian, Azerbaijani, Cypriot, Georgian, Iranian, Is ...
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Ana Sortun
Oleana “Ana” Sortun is a chef, restaurateur and author in the Boston area. Biography Sortun was born in Seattle. After she graduated from La Varenne Ecole de Cuisine de Paris, she came to Massachusetts to open Moncef Meddeb’s Argo Bistro followed by stints, in the early 1990s, at 8 Holyoke and Casablanca, both in Harvard Square. The eponymous Oleana opened in 2001. Her husband, Chris Kurth, owns Siena Farms, named after their daughter. Restaurants In addition to Oleana, she opened Sofra Bakery with a partner Maura Kilpatrick in 2008. The idea behind Sofra was to have both a retail store and an "informal Middle Eastern café." the farm supplies produce for Oleana. It is located in Sudbury, Massachusetts Sudbury is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. At the 2020 census, it had a population of 18,934. The town, located in Greater Boston's MetroWest region, has a rich colonial history. History Incorporated in 1639, the bou ..., and it is where t ...
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Boston (magazine)
''Boston'' is a monthly magazine concerning life in the Greater Boston area and has been in publication since 1805. History and profile ''Boston'' magazine was started in 1805. Metrocorp, Inc. bought the magazine in 1970. The company also owns ''Philadelphia'' magazine. The magazine claims a publication of 500,000 issues per month, its percentage of newsstand copies sold is among the highest of any magazine of any kind in the United States, and it has been named among the best city magazines in the nation nine times in the last ten years by the City and Regional Magazine Association. Former editors-in-chief include Carly Carioli, John Wolfson and Andrew Putz. In May 2015 ''Boston'' magazine was awarded by the City and Regional Magazine Association. Best of Boston "Best of Boston" is an award given by ''Boston'' magazine in an annual issue which is "the definitive guide to the city’s finest". It was first awarded in 1974. This award is given in a wide range of categories tha ...
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James Beard Foundation Award
The James Beard Foundation Awards are annual awards presented by the James Beard Foundation to recognize chefs, restaurateurs, authors and journalists in the United States. They are scheduled around James Beard's May 5 birthday. The media awards are presented at a dinner in New York City; the chef and restaurant awards were also presented in New York until 2015, when the foundation's annual gala moved to Chicago. Chicago will continue to host the Awards until 2027. History The awards were established in 1990, when the foundation expanded its chef awards and combined them with '' Cook's'' Magazine's Who's Who of American Cooking and French's Food and Beverage Book Awards. In addition to the chef, restaurant, and book awards, journalism awards were added in 1993, which expanded to broadcast media in 1994, and restaurant design awards were first given in 1995. In 2018, the James Beard Foundation changed the award's rules to be more inclusive, to fight race and gender imbalances ...
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Fine Dining Restaurants In The United States
Fine may refer to: Characters * Sylvia Fine (''The Nanny''), Fran's mother on ''The Nanny'' * Officer Fine, a character in ''Tales from the Crypt'', played by Vincent Spano Legal terms * Fine (penalty), money to be paid as punishment for an offence * Fine on alienation, a sum of money paid to a feudal lord when a tenant had occasion to make over his land to another * Fine of lands, an obsolete type of land conveyance to a new owner * Fine, a dated term for a premium on a lease of land Music * Fine (band), a late 1990s American band * ''Fine'' (album), a 1994 album by Snailhouse * "Fine" (Taeyeon song), 2017 * "Fine" (Whitney Houston song), 2000 * " F.I.N.E.*", a 1993 song by Aerosmith * "Fine", a song by James from the 2001 album '' Pleased to Meet You'' * "Fine", a song by Kylie Minogue from the 2014 album ''Kiss Me Once'' * "Fine", a song by Prism from the 1983 album ''Beat Street'' * "fine", a 2019 song by Mike Shinoda Brands and enterprises * Fine (brandy), a term for so ...
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Middle Eastern Restaurants In The United States
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Restaurants In Cambridge, Massachusetts
The following is a list of restaurants in Cambridge, Massachusetts: * Charlie's Kitchen * Club Passim * Grendel's Den * Legal Sea Foods * The Middle East * Café Pamplona * The Plough and Stars * Rialto * Tasty Sandwich Shop * Toscanini's * Upstairs On the Square * Veggie Galaxy * Yume Wo Katare {{Restaurants in Cambridge, Massachusetts Cambridge, Massachusetts Restaurants A restaurant is a business that prepares and serves food and drinks to customers. Meals are generally served and eaten on the premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services. Restaurants vary greatly in appearan ... ...
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