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From: blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Red Lobster in 30 miles vicinity of Boston
Date: 21 Jan 93 15:20:31 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Horizon Research, Inc.

In article <1993Jan20.172229.23138@cbnews.cb.att.com>, 
milo@cbnews.cb.att.com (guy.f.klose) writes:

=> ...and something I forgot...Columbus has almost no donut shops (not even
=> Dunkin' Donuts), which I find amazing since Columbus was voted "Place
=> Most Likely To Serve Lard As A Table Condiment".       :-)

MY GOD! This must mean they don't have police either :-)

- Bill
Newsgroups: ne.food
From: fsquared@eff.org (Fawn Fitter)
Subject: Re: Decen Boston deli?
Originator: fsquared@eff.org
Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:47:48 GMT

dozonoff@bu.edu (david ozonoff) writes:

>Boston seems to be "deli-illiterate." Where is the good (i.e.,
>NY style) deli in this wasteland?




I think highly of the Deli Haus in Kenmore Square. It's not all that
New Yorkish, but the blintzes put my grandma's to shame, and the Reuben
is scrumptious.

They also have cream soda, which is pretty dang hard to find in these parts.


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>dozonoff@med-itvax1
>Boston University School of Public Health
>80 East Concord St., T3C
>Boston, MA 02118
>(617) 638-4620
Newsgroups: ne.food
From: barry@dingus.osf.org (Barry Perlman)
Subject: Middlebury, VT
Followup-To: barry@osf.org
Keywords: Middlebury Vermont VT inn xc-ski
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:37:25 GMT


Hi,
	I am looking for recommendations for inns in Middlebury, VT.
If you have been to one, please let me know what you thought of the
place.
	Also, if you have anything to tell me about restaurants or
sights or cross-country ski trails in the Middlebury area, please
respond.

	Please respond directly to: barry@osf.org 

	Thanks,
	Barry
	
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From: James_J_Kowalczyk@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Where are good knishes?
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 16:15:43 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1jma56INNfqt@transfer.stratus.com>

kvk@questor.sw.stratus.com (Ken Koellner) writes:
>In article <1993Jan21.024623.19114@spdcc.com> jin@spdcc.com (Jerry Natowitz)
>writes:
>>
>>Some of the best knishes, at least from the filling stand-point, are in
>>that Jewish Deli in Vernon Connecticut - which is a bit far to go on a
>>weekday evening.
>
>Rein's New York Style Deli.  Really good food if you don't mind
>spending about $10 each for a deli meal.  They have great sandwiches
>served with half-sour pickles.

But where is it?

Jim Kowalczyk               James_J_Kowalczyk@cup.portal.com


\
By the way, Buzzy's Roast Beef (fast food shack) on the Boston side
of the Longfellow Bridge serves beef, turkey, and vegetable "knishes",
but they are larger than any knish I have seen elsewhere (being probably
about 8 ounces or larger).
From: gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Non-smoking restaurants
Date: 25 Jan 93 13:29:52 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Mitech Corporation, Concord MA

In article <1993Jan21.154242.25827@osf.org>, bsmith@osf.org () writes:
> Does anyone know of any Boston-area restaurants that permit no smoking at all?
> I know of only one: The Dolphin on Mass. Ave. in Cambridge. This is not an
> attempt to begin a discussion about smoking/non-smoking or to make judgments.
> Bruce Smith

Walden Sub Shop in West Concord is no-smoking. 

Newsgroups: ne.food
From: tjdalton@athena.mit.edu (Transitive NightFall of Diamonds)
Subject: Best Beer Selection in Boston/North Area ?
Followup-To: ne.food
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: ne
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:10:57 GMT

Not exactly food, but close enough...

I've been looking to find a liquor store in the Cambridge/Boston-North
area with the best beer selection.  My current favorite is 
Den Rock Liquors in North Andover on Rt. 114

Any other good ones ?

	Tim
Newsgroups: ne.food
From: ed@odi.com (Ed Schwalenberg)
Subject: Birch beer
Organization: Object Design, Inc.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 15:58:55 GMT

In article <1993Jan28.014019.22241@eff.org> fsquared@eff.org (Fawn Fitter) writes:
  No, no, no, not root beer -- though I know and love IBC root beer. I meant
  cream soda. Frequently a bizarre shade of red. Nothing else tastes like it
  in all the world. Maybe it's a midwestern thing (I'm, alas, only an adoptive
  Bostonian).

While we're on the subject of root beer and bizarre shades, does anybody know
where to get birch beer?  In NJ/PA, it's reddish brown.  In CT, it's clear.
I also had some that was red once, but I don't remember where.  I used to
import it a trunkload at a time from NJ, but I don't go there very often
nowadays.
From: phil@Shiva.COM (Phil Budne)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Electronic restaurant guide
Date: 24 Jan 93 07:00:35 GMT
Followup-To: ne.food
Distribution: ne
Organization: Shiva Corporation, Cambridge Ma, USA

In article <C0xGoq.9Js@world.std.com> vwright@world.std.com (Vedder A Wright) writes:
>Somewhere or other I remember hearing about an online guide to
>restaurants in the Boston area, accessible by telnet.

I remember MIT-AI (the KA) had an implementation of FTP, the "food
transfer program" on and have a vague recollection of it on OZ as
well.  It looked just like "FTP" and was loaded with lots of info
hours, prices, ratings).  To find out about a restaurant you
"connected" to it!

-p
From: amy@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Amy McNulty)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Non-smoking restaurants
Date: 21 Jan 1993 16:19:18 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Distribution: ne
NNTP-Posting-Host: blueheron.pubs.stratus.com

In article <1993Jan21.154242.25827@osf.org> bsmith@osf.org () writes:
> Does anyone know of any Boston-area restaurants that permit no  
smoking at all?
> I know of only one: The Dolphin on Mass. Ave. in Cambridge. This is  
not an
> attempt to begin a discussion about smoking/non-smoking or to make  
judgments.
> Bruce Smith
>  

I believe the Pillar House (at the Route 128/Route 16 intersection in  
Newton) is all non-smoking.

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Newsgroups: ne.food
From: bsmith@crustacean.osf.org (Bruce Smith)
Subject: Re: adonde red lobster
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Distribution: ne
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:26:44 GMT

In article <lm0v5tINN2h9@news.bbn.com> rnewman@bbn.com (Ron Newman) writes:
>In article <107991@bu.edu>, babe@acs.bu.edu (Bond...James Bond) writes:
>|> I just have one question.  I'd be most grateful if someone can tell me
>|> where the closest RED LOBSTER is to Boston.  I see all these television
>|> adds but have not been able to find one.    Thanks in advance...
>
>Didn't we just do this last week?  And about two months earlier too?
>
>I haven't see the TV commercial, but it must say "If you can't find
>a Red Lobster near you, ask your nearest Internet host for
>assistance."

The Red Lobster Request appeared recently in ne.general. Could this be some
kind of net.prank? Now, it's fine with me if people want to eat at the place,
but what I don't quite get is -- what's the big draw here? The power of
advertising, perhaps? How about it, Red Lobster lovers, what's the deal?

Bruce Smith


Newsgroups: ne.food
From: chao@tegra.com (Chao)
Subject: Test (Please Ignore)
Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:56:55 GMT

This is a test.
From: det@sw.stratus.com (David Toland)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Best Beer Selection in Boston/North Area ?
Date: 28 Jan 93 13:33:29 GMT
Reply-To: somebody@somehost.edu
Distribution: ne
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: phlan.sw.stratus.com

In article <1993Jan27.201057.27785@athena.mit.edu>, tjdalton@athena.mit.edu (Transitive NightFall of Diamonds) writes:
> Not exactly food, but close enough...
> 
> I've been looking to find a liquor store in the Cambridge/Boston-North
> area with the best beer selection.  My current favorite is 
> Den Rock Liquors in North Andover on Rt. 114
> 
> Any other good ones ?

It's been a few years since I've wandered in toward the Hub (I live near
Worcester these days), but Martignetti's Liquors on Soldier's Field Road
out in Brighton used to be one of my favorites.  The place is warehouse
sized, and carries just about every brand of beer available in this
region (or at least it used to).

Please tell me they're still in business - going there was an experience
no one should miss.

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From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Best Hot and Sour Soup? (was Re: Chinese food in Brookline)
Date: 22 Jan 93 19:35:04 GMT
	<llttqeINNcbv@news.bbn.com>
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston

There's a good vegetarian recipe in one of the Moosewood/Enchanted
Broccoli Forest cookbooks. You don't NEED duck's blood to make
hot&sour soup. 
  I suspect that the local restaurants don't use it but I DON'T want
to know.
  (I'm about to become a vegetarian again...most of the local places
do use pork, and I think chicken broth)
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Newsgroups: ne.food
From: bsmith@crustacean.osf.org (Bruce Smith)
Subject: Re: Best Hot and Sour Soup? (was Re: Chinese food in Brookline)
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:55:08 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.142500.7790@linus.mitre.org> jswartz@mbunix.mitre.org (Swartz) writes:

Praise for New Asia's HSS deleted.
>
>So ... how is the rest of the New Asia menu?
>

First, let me state that I have eaten many meals at New Asia, more often at
the Lexington site than Somerville. The menus and food seem identical at both.
The take-out menu has many more items than does the regular menu; I don't know
why. In any case, I find the HSS wholly acceptable.

New Asia's food is good and inexpensive. I usually have some kind of bean curd
and vegetable dish and a seafood or chicken dish there. One item I had as a 
take out that's not on the regular menu is Yu-Hsiang Fish (they do have other
Yu-Hsiang's on the reg. menu). I liked it very much, and I may try to order it
some time when I'm there.

My one complaint with New Asia is that their spicy dishes are generally quite
mild, even somewhat sweetish. I was pleasantly surprised the other evening
when a chicken and vegetable dish (don't remember exactly what it was called)
turned out to be spicy enough for me -- that means moderately spicy.

New Asia also has a good lunch menu, with still lower prices and, of course,
smaller portions.

Bruce Smith





Newsgroups: ne.food
From: barry@dingus.osf.org (Barry Perlman)
Subject: Re: Best Beer Selection in Boston/North Area ?
Keywords: beer stores
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Distribution: ne
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:34:42 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.210411.440@athena.mit.edu>, mondol@mtl.mit.edu (mark k. mondol) writes:
Regarding beer stores: 
> Without doubt there will be many answers to this question , however; 
> I have three choices - in order of preference:
> 
> Wine and Cheese Cask (corner of Beacon and Cambridge streets ?) 
> in Cambridge.  

Seconded.  This is definitely the best.

> Beer store in Davis square  - The name escapes me now.

Downtown Liquor.  Has gone seriously downhill since ten years ago, may still
be worth a visit.

> Beer/Wine store on Mass Ave. - opposite Hollywood Expreess - name escapes me.
> (i.e. Mass Ave just west of Harvard square - near the professor streets )

University Wine.


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From: rob@goldilocks.lcs.mit.edu (Rob Kassel)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: More name that fast-food place
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:40:23 GMT
Organization: MIT Spoken Language Systems Group

In article <BETSYS.93Jan26131342@ra.cs.umb.edu>, betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz) writes:
|>    Finally, Central Square *had* a White Castle. The
|> distinctively-shaped building is still perched in the intersection of
|> River Western and Pleasant streets, near the police office.


Yet another bit of net-misinformation.  That building was not a white castle.  It
was a white tower, a different 5-cent hamburger chain.  Their architecture is
distinctive and is the subject of an MIT press book.  Another of their buildings
is located near chinatown.
From: dap@portal.vpharm.com (David A. Pearlman)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: More name that fast-food place
Date: 26 Jan 93 23:47:28 GMT
Organization: Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

In article <BETSYS.93Jan26131342@ra.cs.umb.edu> betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz) writes:
>[all text deleted]
>I *was* wrong about Au Bon Pain, half-way. According to yesterday's
>Herald they are a regional chain with stores in 20 states. I don't
>River Western and Pleasant streets, near the police office. The
>building was sold to a macrobiotic outfit for a while, and is now a
>place where you can get THE best falafel and grape leaves sandwiches
>in Cambridge, Moody's Falafel Palace (non-veggie grape leaves,
>unfortunately) for a VERY reasonable price. 
>
>    

Before it became Moody's, that place was "Tower Fish" for a while.
Very mediocre deep fried fish and chips at not-all-that-cheap
prices. It's no surprise that, like phoney Beatlemania, they bit
the dust.

I'm not as enamored of Moody's as is Elizabeth, but I will definitely
confirm it's CHEAP. Not just reasonable. Downright cheap...$2.50 for
a kabob "sandwich", fer instance...

My fav moderately-priced Middle Eastern place in the greater "Cambridge"
area is Ararat's, near the Arsinal mall in Watertown (but you can
see Cambridge from there on a high enough perch).

dap
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From: plutchak@pilsner.geo.brown.edu (Joel Plutchak)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Best Hot and Sour Soup? (was Re: Chinese food in Brookline)
Date: 28 Jan 93 15:45:50 GMT
Organization: Brown University Planetary Geology
NNTP-Posting-Host: pilsner.geo.brown.edu

In article <1993Jan27.145508.27530@osf.org> bsmith@crustacean.osf.org (Bruce Smith) writes:
>My one complaint with New Asia is that their spicy dishes are generally quite
>mild, even somewhat sweetish. I was pleasantly surprised the other evening
>when a chicken and vegetable dish (don't remember exactly what it was called)
>turned out to be spicy enough for me -- that means moderately spicy.

   A few months back I saw a Boston TV review of a Chinese restaurant located
somewhere out in the 'burbs (Waltham?).  The manager proudly stated that they
tailor the dishes according to the ancestry of the clientele, and implied
that generally non-Asian equated to less spicy.  D'ya think this goes on
a lot?  Personally, if I order a spicy dish in a Chinese restaurant and
it's not spicy, I don't bother returning.
--
Joel Plutchak, Research Programmer/Analyst
"I'm mentally OVERDRAWN!"
From: heiser@TDWR.ED.RAY.COM (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: adonde red lobster
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:37:30 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Raytheon Company, Equipment Division

In article <1993Jan22.213127.7491@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> jlacey@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (james.w.lacey) writes:
>
>I dont know if this is THE closest, but there is one in
>Newington NH (next to Portsmouth) next to the Fox Run Mall.
>(I havent been 'coz I dont eat lobstah.)


:-)
Anyone who drives from Boston to Newington, to eat at Red Lobster,
and bypasses the likes of Newicks, Warrens, and Weathervane, has
a serious TASTE problem :-) :-)


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From: rsteele@adam.ll.mit.edu (Rob Steele)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Boston/Cambridge/Sommerville BBQ info request
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:45:50 GMT
Reply-To: rob@ll.mit.edu
Distribution: ne
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory

In article <1993Jan25.185748.3065@eff.org> fsquared@eff.org (Fawn  
Fitter) writes:
> In my extremely humble opinion, Redbone's in Davis
> Square has the best barbecue around. 

I second that and I'm a Southerner and a connoisseur.  Try the pulled  
pork plate and get some extra mild sause.   Mmmm boy.

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Lexington, MA  02173          if your parents didn't have
617/981-2575                    any, neither will you.
From: kaz@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Karen Fegley)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Non-smoking restaurants
Date: 22 Jan 1993 22:21:36 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Distribution: ne
NNTP-Posting-Host: pogo.pubs.stratus.com

In article <1993Jan21.154242.25827@osf.org> bsmith@osf.org () writes:
> Does anyone know of any Boston-area restaurants that permit no smoking at  
all?
> I know of only one: The Dolphin on Mass. Ave. in Cambridge. This is not an
> attempt to begin a discussion about smoking/non-smoking or to make judgments.
> Bruce Smith
>

Also Five Seasons in Jamaica Plain, I think.

Karen
From: James_J_Kowalczyk@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: adonde red lobster
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 16:22:02 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

FAQ
From: lmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Laurie Mann)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Best Beer Selection in Boston/North Area ?
Date: 28 Jan 93 13:41:32 GMT
Reply-To: lmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
Distribution: ne
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: ansible.pubs.stratus.com

David Toland writes
>It's been a few years since I've wandered in toward the Hub (I live near
>Worcester these days), but Martignetti's Liquors on Soldier's Field Road
>out in Brighton used to be one of my favorites.  The place is warehouse
>sized, and carries just about every brand of beer available in this
>region (or at least it used to).
>
>Please tell me they're still in business - going there was an experience
>no one should miss.

Yep, they're still in business.  They are right next door to Staples.

I like Julio's Liquors in Westboro (on Route 9).  A little expensive, but a  
fine selection.  And, if I'm buying for something really big, it's worth  
driving out to Yankee Spirits in Sturbridge.  Excellent prices and the biggest  
liquor store I've ever been in.

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Newsgroups: ne.food
From: david@monitor.com
Subject: Re: Best Hot and Sour Soup? (was Re: Chinese food in Brookline)
Reply-To: david@monitor.com
Organization: Monitor Company / IE
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:49:25 GMT

Barbara Sinsabaugh writes
> In article <C14un9.551@world.std.com> szs@world.std.com (Stephen Z Stein)  
> writes:
> > I'm a bit out of town now but Tai Chiang in Chelmsford Center has *first
> > rate* HSS (as is everything else I've had there)!
> > 
> > So where is the best HSS around here?
> > 
> > -Steve Stein
> > 
> > 
> Yangtze River Restaurant in Lexington and Littleton has excellent Chinese
> food, including hot & sour soup.
> 
My wife is more of a H&SS fan than myself, but we both love the version done by  
the new Asia in Union Sq Somerville and Mass Ave Lexington. Plus, it's about  
$3.25 per quart take out.  Definitely a must as a cold remedy!

Dave Adams
Monitor Company Information Engineering
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From: marie@ai.mit.edu (Marie Lamb)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Decen Boston deli?
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:08:49 GMT
Reply-To: marie@ai.mit.edu
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
NNTP-Posting-Host: guppy.ai.mit.edu


In article <ZPOPE.93Jan26120720@sloop.osf.org>, zpope@osf.org (William Pope) writes:
|> 
|> Sammy's near the Cambridge Brewing Center in Kendall Sq is new and trying.
|> Good pastrami and brisket type stuff.  Limited selection

I just had lunch there--pretty decent deli, but at NY prices!  Their
knish is pretty good, for those who were looking--they have potato,
meat and turkey.  I tried the potato--nice, light crust with fluffy
mashed potato, very tasty.   I used to like Deli Haus and Elsie's style
knish, but I may convert! :-)

Someone said they had a hard time finding cream soda--look for the 
I.B.C. brand in your local supermarket.  It seems to be widely available,
and it's much better than the A&W stuff.

Marie
Newsgroups: ne.food
From: heiser@TDWR.ED.RAY.COM (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: Electronic restaurant guide
Organization: Raytheon Company, Equipment Division
Distribution: ne
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 93 17:44:25 GMT

In article <C0xGoq.9Js@world.std.com> vwright@world.std.com (Vedder A Wright) writes:
>Somewhere or other I remember hearing about an online guide to
>restaurants in the Boston area, accessible by telnet.

I don't know of a single restaurant (anywhere) that's 
accessible by "telnet" :-) :-)

Sorry!  :-)

If you do find the online guide, please post a summary!



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Newsgroups: ne.food
From: herlihy@crl.dec.com (Maurice Herlihy)
Subject: Re: Non-smoking restaurants
Organization: DEC Cambridge Research Lab
Distribution: ne
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:51:13 GMT

I think the following are non-smoking:

  Il Capriccio, Waltham
  Harvard St. Grill, Brookline
  The Peacock, Cambridge

They're not necessarily for the economy-minded.
Newsgroups: ne.food
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: IBC root beer & cream soda (was Re: Decen Boston deli?)
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
	<1k6q4hINNhbs@life.ai.mit.edu> <1993Jan28.014019.22241@eff.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:21:42 GMT

FF> == Fawn Fitter <fsquared@eff.org>

 FF> No, no, no, not root beer -- though I know and love IBC root beer. I
 FF> meant cream soda. Frequently a bizarre shade of red. Nothing else
 FF> tastes like it in all the world. Maybe it's a midwestern thing (I'm,
 FF> alas, only an adoptive Bostonian).

There is also an IBC cream soda, and, much like the root beer, it is
considered by many to be one of the ambrosias of bottled drinks.

(Before you could find IBC in the stores 'round here, one of the residents
of my dorm would import the root beer from Alabama by the case...)

IBC cream soda is not, however, red; it's more of a straw yellow.
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