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.
Six-story condo building wins muted approval for an odd lot in East Cambridge beset by changing laws
Laws for the land that once held a Dunkin’ Donuts have change twice since the project was permitted in 2023 – and since construction began.
Cambridge has ideas about how to limit customer drinking, and the response has been terrible
Restrictions on serving alcohol that are due for discussion by Cambridge’s License Commission in August are already seeing strong opposition from restaurant owners, their customers and a city...
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.
Nonprofit developer plans to put up affordable housing and offices at lot along Concord Avenue
Homeowner’s Rehabilitation Inc. plans to build affordable housing at its recently purchased lot at 755 Concord Ave. in the Cambridge Highlands.
Harvard Book Store is opening a branch in a historic Boston neighborhood near Faneuil Hall
Harvard Book Store announced on Monday “a new chapter” in its 94-year history in the construction of a second store – opening in the fall in Boston.
Tax tip of the week: Your big refund from the IRS isn’t really good news
For some taxpayers, provisions of Donald Trump’s so-called One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act reduced their tax liability, which may have led to larger refunds.