Leaving this sampling event full is easy. Returning to the tastes outside its borders isn't always possible: Not every item is at brick-and-mortar settings.
Five foods to follow out of the Taste of Cambridge
What’s in your pantry? Part 1: Salts
Staples. Not talking about the big box store, but rather things that I reach for so often that I feel they are essential to my cooking life. I’m a spice hoarder. I have whole shelves of tiny jars and...
Worn wood, comfort and ease: At home at the Circus Cooperative and Café Zing
Coffee in a good setting keeps me there. The place, as you know if you read these columns, matters, almost as much as the coffee. I’m lucky that I can almost always find coffee that keeps me seated....
Buffalo chicken pizza at Ernesto’s
The location of this Boston mainstay at Assembly Row, opened in 2015, is careful to warn customers that they’re at risk of getting a great deal.
Buddy’s Diner repair work is about to get started, owner says, for a reopening next year
The classic train-car-style diner at 113 Washington St., East Somerville, shut three years ago because of a ruinous plumbing problem.
Retail mecca Assembly Row adds the thing demanded in years of surveys: a weekly farmers market
A weekly open-air farmers market launched Friday in Somerville’s Assembly Row with a ceremony, speeches and a benefits match to double buying power.
Five foods to follow out of the Taste of Somerville
When staggering happily away from the event, it turns out there were dishes that had me already plotting how soon I could get back to their sources for more.
Two cafes welcoming ‘the irregular’: New Leaf Espresso and True Grounds
A coffee shop in a barbershop and woodsy space with art and painted wainscoting beckon with a trim, a long black and thoughts of a rom-Som.
Veggie patty at Chatty Patty
$3 Yes, this is take two on Chatty Patty (and take three on the Eastern Edge Food Hall). But empanadas, calzones, pasties, turnovers: I love them all, especially affordable ones, and the variety of...
Wander Cat Cola is a craft soda whose bubbles are popping up all over the place
Try a Japanese-inspired craft cola at the Taste of Somerville, at New Leaf Espresso