See the new Urban Hearth
The last day of service at the current Urban Hearth at 2263 Massachusetts Ave., North Cambridge, is May 30, according to a Monday email from Erin Miller’s restaurant specializing in seasonally driven menus of locally farmed and foraged foods. “If this dining room holds memories for you, as it does for us, we hope you’ll come share one more meal here before we turn the page together,” the email says, while warning that reservations are filling quickly. The closing is “bittersweet and full of anticipation” because it means the restaurant’s new location at 1281 Cambridge St., Inman Square – the former Turing Tavern – is near opening.Urban Hearth will have a preview party May 21. Proceeds from each $150 ticket sold goes into a crowdfunding campaign, which ends April 30, to help open at the new location.
Meal service by Bon Me’s chef
Bon Me, the small Vietnamese restaurant chain (and the surprise winner of our banh mi Bite-Off last month), is launching a ready-to-eat, weekly meal subscription called Teo’s Table from Ali Fong, chef and co-founder of Bon Me. The service provides three meals a week with two, four or six servings per meal (110, $182 or $254), delivered on Tuesdays within a 25-mile radius of downtown Boston. Meals are described as “balanced, veggie-forward dishes rooted in Asian cuisines, packed with protein and flavor.” Fong said she started the service out of working-mom frustration: She found that weekend batch meal prep sessions “felt like a tug-of-war between getting dinner on the table and actually being present” with her son, Teo, and she didn’t like the meal kits she researched. Heat-to-serve Teo’s Table meals are ready within five minutes, aren’t too heavy and make for good for next-day lunches, Fong said. The company says new subscribers get $100 off their first two weeks, applied automatically at checkout.
Assembly Row Farmers Market
An Assembly Row Farmers Market debuts June 12, according to the retail and residential complex in Somerville’s Assembly Square. There will be approximately 30 vendor stalls from 3 to 7 p.m. Fridays through Oct. 9 (skipping July 3) that Assembly Row PR says will be “curated to reflect the agricultural diversity and creative spirit of New England, with offerings including produce, artisanal baked goods, dairy, eggs, fish, meats and more.” The open-air market sets up between Shake Shack, Tatte and Caffe Nero locations as “a new way for residents, workers and visitors to access fresh, locally sourced food in the heart of the neighborhood.”
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