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Get to Know Us. Yoga Pants, of course. Kara Baskin can be reached at kcbaskin gmail. Irish eyes will be smiling — and forks clanging, too. Celebrate with special menus. Plenty of restaurants are getting into the St. Here are a few places to find them. The small local chain is celebrating St. Bar Boulud. The Blue Ox. The Independent. The Somerville pub recently underwent a slight culinary overall details here.
Plus special whiskey-based cocktails like The Brotherhood Jameson with Benedictine, Grand Marnier and lemon and Ceangoba Toddy, apple-cinnamon infused Jameson with Benedictine, served warm. He may be a descendent of Mayflower passengers, but chef Will Gilson will celebrate St. South Street Diner. Want something lighter?
It has been a staple on the North Shore dining scene since opening in With a focus on locally sourced premium ingredients from the top purveyors in the area, and a unique wine and cocktail program, the restaurant boasts creative takes on American classics enhanced by a diverse selection of locally distilled spirits, small production wines and beers.
For more information, visit www. Let me continue the lists of my best recommendations and favorites of Now, I want to concentrate on my Favorite Restaurants of the past year. You will even find a few Favorites from outside Massachusetts as I traveled a little bit this past year.
The 6. He graduated from Wesleyan University and received an M. The day after their date she left for a trip to Antigua with a friend. Would recommend them. Singh of Tucson. It has always had unique characteristics and now saltmakers on the North Shore and the Cape have allies in restaurants and home kitchens who recognize the subtle difference a variety of salt can make on the tongue.
Favorite Suburban Restaurant. The Blue Ox, in Lynn, is a great neighborhood spot with a talented chef. Their cocktail program is excellent, using many local spirits, and the wine list will also please. With its reasonable prices, and fun atmosphere, this is suburban restaurant you need to seek out. After stuffing yourself with a turkey feast, you may need a little help settling your stomach — for the next few days.
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That got us thinking: Where can one find some unique, creative or otherwise top-drawer digestifs around Boston? Like port, but find it a bit heavy? Bar manager Charlie Gaeta recommends Banyuls Blanc, a somewhat rare digestif made in the South of France from white grapes and fortified by pure distilled alcohol. Its similar to port, but the swap of brandy for a neutral spirit yields something slightly lighter and refreshing, says Gaeta. Casa Portugal.
Fernet is a favore among industry types, but can be off-putting to lighter palates. Eastern Standard.
The result: a complex, smooth spirit with notes of honey, caramel, and pine nuts. Danes tend to pour some at festive occasions, and it is even considered acceptable as a morning drink at celebratory breakfasts. Foundry on Elm. Manny Gonzalez, beverage director at this Davis Square American brasserie, suggests sipping slivovitz, a Czech distilled spirit made from Damson plums. Jelinek label. The just-revamped bar menu spotlights fine finos, amontillados, and olorosos to be serbed neat, and house cocktails like Chipiona, which pairs Fino sherry with gin, vermouth and celery bitters.
You grab grappa at any number of Italian restaurants, but this Atlantic Wharf spot boasts a bread selection of more unusual digestifs from the boot: like Strega, a mint-and-fennel-flavored liqueuer, and Tuaca, an oak-aged Italian brandy with notes of vanilla and orange.
Via Matta. Because a digestif signals the end to a meal, might as well enjoy it with dessert. Via Matta does with its affogato pictured , a traditional dessert that typically tops ice cream or gelato with an espresso shot. In some ways, choosing a wine for Thanksgiving dinner is difficult, given the great variety of foods and flavors. There are tart cranberries, creamy mashed potatoes, and spiced pumpkin pie for dessert.
You may want to serve a little of several different types of wine so guests can taste a wine with each dish. Or you may want to pick one good all-purpose wine. This red varietal from Beaujolais in the South of Burgundy is light, fruity and has the high acid levels that make it really versatile with food.
However, there are a lot of producers today making very serious wines from this region, especially when you get to Cru Beaujolais.
These are the 10 top villages in Beaujolais where gamay really becomes a world class grape with a distinctive sense of terroir think granite soil. In good hands, from one of these crus, you can see what they mean. Suggested producer : Marcel Lapiere is the guy when it comes to Beaujolais. A red grape from Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
It is packed with red fruit and a cleansing acidity. This is another wine that has received a bad reputation due to the Coca-Cola-like Lambrusco of yesteryear. Today, however, there is a revival of excellent and elegant Lambrusco. Suggested producer: Cantina della Volta. Christian Bellei, the winemaker, makes this Lambrusco di Sorbara in Methode Classico, the Italian term for wines made through the same process as Champagne. He makes it from organic grapes from a single vintage. This is as serious as Lambrusco gets but without the hefty price tag.
This is a red variety from Croatia. It is light, low in alcohol and has a ton of red fruit ripe strawberry in its youth with zippy acidity. It also has an unmistakable earthy quality on the finish that brings a little rusticity without the barnyard-y profile to Thanksgiving dinner. This profile pairs well with many dishes. For years, there has been an incredible amount of research on tracing the actually DNA origins of the Zinfandel grape back to Croatia.