Cambridge has one “double café” – that is, one café with stores in two neighborhoods. This is the 1369, special “third spaces” with character and sense of place.
1369 times two
Chorizo taco at Los Tacos Hermanos
I’ve loved the idea of chorizo more than a lot of the chorizo I’ve eaten. This perfect taco goes its own way with a chorizo so mild it was shocking.
When building a cheese board, start with a river and let it spill
There is nothing wrong with eating a couple of perfect cheeses plonked onto a plate, but don’t you think everything tastes best when it is pretty?
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The long red line
The two universities that dominate Cambridge seem to foster café sitting. We will follow the rumble of the MBTA red line, felt in three Harvard and MIT coffee seats.
Lemon blueberry scone at Vinal Bakery
American scones can be dry and crumbly, a clumsy exaggeration of the savory British version of this cousin to the biscuit. Vinal dodges the dry.
Owner plans to close S&S Restaurant in Inman this summer
S&S Restaurant owner Gary Mitchell hints at “other things” coming after the deli ends its 107-year run in Inman Square.
Taste of Cambridge, nearing end of early bird sales, adds six more sources of samples and sips
Surfside, Caffe Nero, Boston Burger Co., McCarthy’s and Toad, and Patco Brands join the June 17 endless-samples event.
Yay! It’s time for spring produce: Asparagus, sunchokes, fiddleheads, ramps and rhubarb
We have only a few months of seriously good growing time here, so we need to come out of the gate running.
Fringe benefits: Coffee with something extra, somewhere else
This week, the journey began near Porter Square, thence near Union Square and finally to East Cambridge. Each had something off my radar to recommend it!
Prepare for Nostalgia, where coffee and vintage clothing mix, and learn what happened to Nine Winters Bakery
Somerville welcomes a hybrid cafe and vintage clothing store called Nostalgia while the taste fades from the celebrated Nine Winters Bakery in Cambridge.