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Restaurants In Boston
Current Currently operating restaurants in Boston include: * Amrheins * Anna's Taqueria Anna's Taqueria is a chain of fast-service Mexican-fusion restaurants in the Boston area. Overview Anna's is modeled after U.S. West Coast style Mexican cuisine, specifically the Mission-style burrito of San Francisco. Its menu offers only four ... * Boca Grande Taqueria * Bova's Bakery * Caffé Vittoria *Charlie's Sandwich Shoppe *Cheers Beacon Hill * Dig (restaurant), Dig * The Fours *Galleria Umberto (restaurant) * Legal Sea Foods * Mantra (restaurant), Mantra * O Ya (restaurant), O Ya *The Paramount, Boston * Regina Pizzeria * Santarpio's Pizza * Smith & Wollensky * South Street Diner * Union Oyster House * Upper Crust Pizzeria Defunct Defunct restaurants in Boston include: * Anthony's Pier 4 * Biba (restaurant), Biba *Brasserie Jo * Doyle's Cafe * Durgin-Park * L'Espalier *Hamersley's Bistro * Jacob Wirth Restaurant *Julien's Restorator * Locke-Ober * Young's Hotel (Boston), Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mantra Restaurant, Boston MA
A mantra (Pali: ''manta'') or mantram (मन्त्रम्) is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words in Sanskrit, Pali and other languages believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers. Feuerstein, Georg (2003), ''The Deeper Dimension of Yoga''. Shambala Publications, Boston, MA Some mantras have a syntactic structure and literal meaning, while others do not. The earliest mantras were composed in Vedic Sanskrit in India. At its simplest, the word ॐ (Aum, Om) serves as a mantra, it is believed to be the first sound which was originated on earth. Aum sound when produced creates a reverberation in the body which helps the body and mind to be calm. In more sophisticated forms, mantras are melodic phrases with spiritual interpretations such as a human longing for truth, reality, light, immortality, peace, love, knowledge, and action. Some mantras without literal meaning are musically uplifting and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santarpio's Pizza
Santarpio's Pizza is a restaurant in the neighborhood of East Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was originally established in 1903 as a bakery. Frank Santarpio began selling pizza there three decades later. A landmark to locals and a destination for visitors, the eatery is primarily known for its Boston-style pizza, which it has served at its Chelsea Street location since 1933. One ''Boston Globe'' reporter said of the establishment that "the average New Englander's only knowledge of East Boston is the sign for Santarpio's Pizza that can be seen from the highway on the way to the airport." History Still owned and operated by the Santarpio family,Levitt, Jonathan. "Putting toppings at bottom adds to flavor of Santarpio's." ''Boston Globe''. 6 December 2006. the restaurant was one of the original pizzerias that opened to cater to Italian Americans who had emigrated to East Boston and the surrounding neighborhoods. Besides several varieties of pizza, Santarpio's menu offers o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Wirth Restaurant
The Jacob Wirth Restaurant was a historic German-American restaurant and bar in Boston, Massachusetts at 31-39 Stuart Street. Founded in 1868, Jacob Wirth was the second oldest continuously operated restaurant in Boston when it closed in 2018. The Greek Revival building housing the restaurant was constructed in 1844. The German style restaurant was founded in 1868 and was the second oldest continuously operating restaurant in the city after the Union Oyster House. The restaurant was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and designated a Boston Landmark in 1977, with interior and exterior protections. Jacob Wirth was the first distributor of Anheuser Busch products. The Wirth family and Anheuser family are from the same small town in Germany. In 2010, Chelsea developer AJ Simboli Real Estate purchased the property for $1.6 million. The restaurant was put up for sale in January 2018 after having filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and closed following a fire in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamersley's Bistro
Hamersley's Bistro was a South End, Boston French restaurant owned by Gordon Hamersley that closed in October 2014 after 27 years. They were known for their roast chicken in a shallot-mustard-herb marinade. But the duck confit was called the best in Boston by Lydia Shire, Ken Oringer, and Christopher Kimball. The original location opened in 1987 in a storefront. They moved to a larger space a few blocks down Tremont Street in 1993. Alumni of the kitchen include Tanya Holland, Gabriel Frasca and )Jody Adams was sous chef when the bistro opened. Customers have included Hillary Clinton, Mayor Thomas Menino and Deval Patrick. Honors include Best Restaurant in the General Excellence category, 1995, by ''Boston Magazine''. The Bistro was a semifinalist for the 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 schedule ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Espalier
''L’Espalier'' was a French restaurant located in Boston, Massachusetts, in the Back Bay neighborhood, adjacent to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. The chef and owner of L'Espalier was Frank McClelland, who received a James Beard Foundation Award in 2007 for Best Northeast Chef. History Chef Moncef Meddeb opened L'Espalier on Boylston Street between Arlington and Berkeley in 1978. It moved to an 1880s-era brick townhouse on Gloucester Street in 1982 and was purchased by McClelland in 1988. The restaurant moved again into the Mandarin Oriental complex in 2008. It was designed by Martin Vahtra of Projects Design in New York. L'Espalier is known locally as a popular place for marriage proposals and celebrity sightings. On March 27, 2013 McClelland celebrated their 35th anniversary with a specially designed six course tasting menu including Jonah crab bisque, branzino and rack of lamb. L'Espalier closed permanently upon the expiration of its lease on December 31, 2018. Food L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durgin-Park
Durgin-Park ( ) was a centuries-old restaurant at 340 Faneuil Hall Marketplace in downtown Boston. The Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau stated that it had been a "landmark since 1827", and it was a popular tourist destination within Quincy Market. The restaurant had entrances on both of its facades (Faneuil Hall and Clinton Street). On January 3, 2019, the owners announced that their last day of service would be January 12, 2019; the restaurant closed permanently on that date. A satellite location at Boston's Logan International Airport remains open as of that date. History The first restaurant at this former warehouse was opened in 1742 and was purchased in 1827 by John Durgin and Eldridge Park, becoming a Boston landmark. By 1840, Durgin & Park took on John G. Chandler as a third partner. It was this trio that established the concepts of food and service that have remained essentially unchanged. During the Reconstruction era—after the deaths of Durgin and Park ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doyle's Cafe
Doyle's Cafe was a pub located on Washington Street in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Doyle's Cafe was established in 1882 and is located near the Samuel Adams brewery. Its close proximity to the brewery afforded Doyle's the unique opportunity to serve new or experimental Samuel Adams beers. It is also where Samuel Adams Boston Lager was first put on tap. Throughout its history, Doyle's was known as a favorite watering hole for both local and national politicians. On St. Patrick's Day in 1988, Senator Ted Kennedy helped dedicate a new room at the location to his maternal grandfather, John F. Fitzgerald. Boston musician Rick Berlin was a long-time employee at Doyle's Cafe. Given its historic look, atmosphere and popularity in the LGBTQ community the Irish pub has been used in several Hollywood movies and television series. Shots of the exterior of the building were used in the television series ''Boston Public''. The pub also appeared in f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brasserie Jo
Brasserie Jo was a Chicago restaurant that received a James Beard Foundation Award for Best New Restaurant in 1996. Jean Joho was the founding chef. It closed in 2010 after being open for 15 years. Joho opened a second branch of the restaurant in the South End of Boston in the Colonnade Hotel, in 1998. That location closed in October 2018. The menu focused on food from Alsace Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it had .... See also * James Beard Foundation Award: 1990s References Defunct French restaurants in the United States Defunct restaurants in Boston Defunct restaurants in Chicago James Beard Foundation Award for Best New Restaurant French restaurants in Illinois French restaurants in Massachusetts {{US-restaurant-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biba (restaurant)
Biba was an award winning restaurant in Boston owned by Lydia Shire. It “opened to great fanfare” in 1989. The restaurant, overlooking the Public Garden, was designed by Adam Tihany. The menu was described as “Shire's own particular eclectic blend of traditional American regional cuisine and New England seafood, with accents of Italy, California and Asia.” Instead of being arranged in traditional categories such as appetizers and entrees, it was divided by meat, starch, "legumina" (vegetables), offal (two different preparations of calves brains; lamb tongue with fava beans) and fish. In 1998, chef Susan Regis won the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef in the Northeast. In 1992, Shire won the same award for her work at the restaurant. Their Bar was renowned as well, in part for their cigar nights. Shire commissioned Robert Jessup to create a mural that spans the wall above it. She insisted it include a can of anchovies, a man smoking a cigar and a woman's nak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony's Pier 4
Anthony's Pier 4 was a restaurant on the South Boston waterfront opened in 1963 by restaurateur Anthony Athanas. In the 1980s it was one of the highest-grossing restaurants in the United States. It closed in 2013 and the site was scheduled for redevelopment. History Restaurateur Anthony Athanas opened Anthony's Pier 4 in 1963, and lived in an apartment above it. It served traditional American food with an emphasis on locally caught seafood; the dining room, with seating for 500, overlooked Boston Harbor on three sides. In 1968, Athanas bought a 1927 former Hudson River cruise ship, the SS ''Peter Stuyvesant'', and brought it from New York to Boston, where a specially built concrete and steel cradle held it in place adjacent to the restaurant; it served as a private bar and dining room and held a wine cellar as well as art works and mementoes collected by Athanas. The ship broke free, turned turtle, and sank during the Blizzard of February 1978; after unsuccessful efforts to salvag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Crust Pizzeria
The Upper Crust Pizzeria is an American pizzeria chain with six locations in the Boston area along with another three in California. The three locations are in the following places: Beverly Hills, California, Beverly Hills, Culver City, California, Culver City, and Los Angeles. History The first pizzeria opened in the Beacon Hill neighborhood on Charles Street in 2001. It grew to 14 locations and developed a cult following before declaring bankruptcy in 2012. The company was purchased in 2013 by Quabbin Capital, a Boston based private equity firm investing in US manufacturing and consumer goods companies. Its former CEO, RJ Dourney, was previously CEO of Così (restaurant), Così, but was fired in 2016 shortly before the company filed for bankruptcy. Controversies A United States Department of Labor investigation of the company's pay practices from April 2007 through April 2009 revealed that Upper Crust’s hourly workers were paid straight time even after they exceeded 40 hour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
