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From: cmadson@wang.com (Cheryl R. Madson)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Knishes and the Holy Grail
Date: 26 Jan 93 17:41:53 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA

re: H&H bagels

I've had them once, in some "bakery/deli in Hollis, NH. I was very
unimpressed; they were extremely dry, like cardboard. It *is* possible
that this place didn't know how to store bagels. I just assumed that 
H&H had an excellent marketing campaign and not enough goods behind their
hype. I don't trust any place that uses testimonials from BIG NAMES IN
HOLLYWOOD.
From: btolman@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Barbara Sinsabaugh)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Best Hot and Sour Soup? (was Re: Chinese food in Brookline)
Date: 21 Jan 1993 17:04:52 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: basil.pubs.stratus.com

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.

Barb Tolman
Stratus Computer
Marlboro
From: heiser@TDWR.ED.RAY.COM (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Red Lobster in 30 miles vicinity of Boston
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:41:37 GMT
Organization: Raytheon Company, Equipment Division

In article <C1D5zn.EFD@world.std.com> mhessman@world.std.com (Mark D Hessman) writes:
>Isn't there a Taco Bell on Comm Ave near Boston University?

Yup.  It's in the Warren Towers building on Comm ave.


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Newsgroups: ne.food
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: Red Lobster in 30 miles vicinity of Boston
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
	<1993Jan20.140204.26025@athena.mit.edu> <C1D5zn.EFD@world.std.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 18:53:13 GMT

MDH> == Mark D Hessman <mhessman@world.std.com>

 MDH> Isn't there a Taco Bell on Comm Ave near Boston University?

More like "in" BU as it's set into the first floor of a high-rise dorm.

The other Taco Bell in Boston is at Lafayette Place.  (I think those are
the only two in Boston, though they have TB food at Logan, and there's at
least one in the 'burbs [nr Burlington Mall].)
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From: jpt@telecaster.think.com (James P. Taylor)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Boston/Cambridge/Sommerville BBQ info request
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:50:28
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Distribution: ne
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In-reply-to: fsquared@eff.org's message of 25 Jan 93 18:57:48 GMT

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. Catfish and other such things for the vegetarians among
   you...  Try the Barbecue Belt for brisket, 3 kinds of ribs, slaw, and beans
   (I usually split this one with a friend), and follow it up with a slice of
   sweet potato pie with real whipped cream on top. Yummers.

The food is very good.  AND, with 20 or so, depending on the day, you can
sit "downstairs" and be as load as you like.



Newsgroups: ne.food
From: augment@world.std.com (Michael Bergman)
Subject: Re: Knishes and the Holy Grail
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: ne
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:53:04 GMT

nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller) writes:

>Dearly beloved noshers of all creeds and colors:
>In the words of the immortal Dante, forget it.
It's not that bad -- close, but not quite.
>Boston is a perfectly nice place, a lot more pleasant

Bagels:  Newton Center has a nice bagel place.  And I grew up
eating at H&H in NYC, so I think I know whereof I speak.  Unfortunately, what 
I don't know is the name of the place.  It's right in Newton Ctr,
 (accessible by green line)  and is a bagel place, not a bakery (_don't_
go to the bakery).

I have also heard that there is a decent bagel place in brookline, maybe two.

Boston proper?  Forget it.

There is a good place in Pittsburgh, and I'm told that there's a good one
in Potsdam, NY.

>Ditto "delicatessens".  The Stage, for god's sake, doesn't even
>offer barley soup.  And Rubin's kishke?  Don't ask.

The S&S (es, es) in Inman Square, Cambridge (somerville? near the line)
isn't bad.  They have decent knishes, though not great ones.

>What to do?  My solution is: care packages from Zabar's (bread,
>coffee, etc.) and Murray's (for fish).  And of course H&H
>(1-800-NY BAGELS) for the real stuff.

Don't forget the knishes from Zabars!

>So what's good in Laotian cooking?

There's a nice Thai/Laotian place in Waltham, called Bangkok flavor.  Not
_special_, just nice.  If you're in waltham or newton, its a good place to go.

--mike bergman





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From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Red Lobster in 30 miles vicinity of Boston
Date: 22 Jan 93 19:30:37 GMT
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	<C15z0I.MLL@world.std.com>
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston

Well, I was thinking in terms of restaurants which you can see on
street corners all over the country or the world...even if they
started in New England, I think Au Bon Pain and Papa Gino's are
international now!
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From: shari@omar.WPI.EDU (Shari Deiana)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Red Lobster in 30 miles vicinity of Boston
Date: 21 Jan 1993 16:34:55 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: omar.wpi.edu

In article <MSALETNI.93Jan20193041@jade.tufts.edu> msaletni@jade.tufts.edu (Michael J. Saletnik) writes:
>In article <1jk1n3INNndh@bigboote.WPI.EDU> shari@omar.WPI.EDU (Shari Deiana) writes:
>
>>And what I wouldn't give for a good plate of fish and chips.  (Or even haddock!
>
>Well, not necessarily *good*, but who remembers Arthur Treacher's and
>their Lemon Luv pies?
>
>Now that was food a 6-year-old could appreciate!
>


I just ate at an Arthur Treachers in Sarasota FL during Christmas, and
you were right, not as good as I remember at 6 years old.  Dad still likes
it though. :-)


Newsgroups: ne.food
From: heiser@TDWR.ED.RAY.COM (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: Fast Food
Organization: Raytheon Company, Equipment Division
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 17:37:40 GMT

>>> ... But it is much harder to
>>> find Wendy's or an Arby's, and nearly impossible to find a
>>> Burger Chef or a Hardees.
>>Hmmmm...I seem to remember Burger Death (or Chef, if you prefer) going
>>out of business well over ten years ago, which might explain why they are
>>"impossible" to find now.  In Ohio, I think they were bought out by Hardee's
>>circa 1976.

Believe me, my recollection of BOTH Hardees and Burger Chef is that
you DON'T WANT to find EITHER of them!  Yechhhhhh!

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Newsgroups: ne.food
From: michael@monitor.com (Michael Johnson)
Subject: Re: Death of good pizza
Reply-To: michael@monitor.com (Michael Johnson)
Organization: Monitor Company / IE
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:01:37 GMT

In article <BETSYS.93Jan26131849@ra.cs.umb.edu> betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth  
Schwartz) writes:
>   There are still GOOD deep-dish pizza places in Chicago. Deep as in
> they fill UP the pan and the crust is blackened from the cast-iron pot
> and none of this orange oily greasy croissant-dough stuff either and
> there are TWO layers of cheese and sometimes two layers of crust....

What's the name of that semi-chain place in Chicago where you can get a pizza  
which is _entirely_ cheese, approx. 1.25 inches thick?  I've had that twice  
and it's recommended highly to cheese hedonists who pass through Chicago or  
have friends in the city who like to mail frozen food.
Newsgroups: ne.food
From: mhessman@world.std.com (Mark D Hessman)
Subject: Re: Red Lobster in 30 miles vicinity of Boston
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 15:06:58 GMT

Isn't there a Taco Bell on Comm Ave near Boston University?

Also, Uno's may be national but they are based here--so does that count
as regional or not? This is an interesting topic; I hadn't realized that
Au Bon Pains and other dominant features of the Boston area were so
completely unique to here.

                                                -- Mark

Newsgroups: ne.food
From: zpope@osf.org (William Pope)
Subject: Re: Decen Boston deli?
Reply-To: zpope@osf.org
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:07:27 GMT


Sammy's near the Cambridge Brewing Center in Kendall Sq is new and trying.
Good pastrami and brisket type stuff.  Limited selection
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From: blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Best Hot and Sour Soup? (was Re: Chinese food in Brookline)
Date: 21 Jan 93 19:19:59 GMT
Organization: Horizon Research, Inc.

In article <lltstrINNc42@news.bbn.com>, levin@bbn.com 
(Joel B Levin) writes:

=> The soup my wife makes from Mrs. Chang's (I think) cook book is about
=> as good as you can get.  The recipe is a bit incomplete, though: she
=> laments the unavailability of coagulated duck's blood and provides a
=> recipe without it.  She seems to assume we will never have coagulated
=> duck's blood.  If we actually get some coagulated duck's blood we'll
=> have to find a different recipe.

Take 1 average sized coagulated duck...
From: zippy@cs.brandeis.edu (Patrick Tufts)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Decen Boston deli?
Date: 28 Jan 93 20:31:23 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Brandeis University

shari@omar.WPI.EDU (Shari Deiana) writes:

>There's another brand out there, but I can't recall the name, all I can 
>remember is that the soda came in about 30 different flavors, all in single
>serve glass bottles, and you bought them by the rack generally.  The store 
>we bought this soda from took these bottles back, and this was way before the
>deposits and recycling started.  Can anyone help me remember this brand??

You might be thinking of Hosmer Mountain Soda, which is based out of
CT (Manchester, I think).  They make Cola Red and Cola Blue (Pepsi and
Coke knock-offs), Orange Dry, Birch Beer, Cream Soda, Pineapple(?)
Soda, Root Beer, and Fruit Punch Soda.

The bottles are single-serve size with pry-off, occaisionally
cork-lined, caps.  They also (used to, may still) sell liter sized
glass bottles.

--Pat
From: babe@acs.bu.edu (Bond...James Bond)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: adonde red lobster
Date: 22 Jan 93 20:05:07 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: babe@acs.bu.edu

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...


                                                           -Me-
Newsgroups: ne.food
From: nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller)
Subject: Knishes and the Holy Grail
Organization: Trinity College, Hartford, CT.
Distribution: ne
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:04:48 GMT

Dearly beloved noshers of all creeds and colors:
In the words of the immortal Dante, forget it.

Boston is a perfectly nice place, a lot more pleasant
than it was when I lived there in 1946, but in one
respect it's unchanged: Jewish baked goods and deli
ought not be discussed in front of children.

As the one who hopefully asked for bagel recommendations,
I tell you sadly that there are no bagels in Boston, only
crusty kleenex.  You want pumpernickel?  You have to ask
for "dark rye" and what you get isn't worth asking for.
Years ago I wandered into a Brookline grocery and heard
a young woman ask (I swear this is true) for "sliced
tchayle".  And last week at Boston Daily Bread I was
given a taste of..wholewheat challa.

I ask you.

Ditto "delicatessens".  The Stage, for god's sake, doesn't even
offer barley soup.  And Rubin's kishke?  Don't ask.

What's worse is that if somebody with a rich poppa tried
b'shem shomayim (in the name of Heaven) to open a real
establishment, s/he'd go broke.  Boston!

What to do?  My solution is: care packages from Zabar's (bread,
coffee, etc.) and Murray's (for fish).  And of course H&H
(1-800-NY BAGELS) for the real stuff.

So what's good in Laotian cooking?

Norman Miller
From: alexm@nmr-z.mgh.harvard.edu (Alex Milshteyn)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Red Lobster in 30 miles vicinity of Boston
Date: 23 Jan 93 16:13:12 GMT
Organization: Mass General Hospital NMR Imaging Center

In article <BETSYS.93Jan22143037@ra.cs.umb.edu> betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz) writes:
>Well, I was thinking in terms of restaurants which you can see on
>street corners all over the country or the world...even if they
>started in New England, I think Au Bon Pain and Papa Gino's are
>international now!
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^
                                                 |||||||||||
That's fare! Why must only New Englanders chew on their greasy
cardboard.
IMHO, they are the second worst pizza chain in New England
after Domino's


Alex

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From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Red Lobster in 30 miles vicinity of Boston
Date: 26 Jan 93 18:19:53 GMT
	<CKD.93Jan24135311@loiosh.eff.org> <lm8baiINN8od@news.bbn.com>
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston

I didn't see the first post but there used to be a taco bell or
something similar in the Arsenal Mall in Watertown.
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Newsgroups: ne.food
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: Red Lobster in 30 miles vicinity of Boston
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
	<CKD.93Jan24135311@loiosh.eff.org> <lm8baiINN8od@news.bbn.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:21:45 GMT

RN> == Ron Newman <rnewman@bbn.com>

 ckd> The other Taco Bell in Boston is at Lafayette Place. 

 RN> Probably not any more.  The mall closed about three months ago.

Shows how often *I* go downtown :)

 RN> (What the Soviet Union was to national economies, this place
 RN> was to shopping malls....)

Very true, very true...
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From: rnewman@bbn.com (Ron Newman)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: More name that fast-food place
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:58:19 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN)
NNTP-Posting-Host: spcsun25.bbn.com

In article <BETSYS.93Jan26131342@ra.cs.umb.edu>, betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz) writes:
|> [all text deleted]
|>  ....
|>    I stop at the mall sometimes to eat at the Japanese place. You get
|> a huge pile of white rice and stir-fried veggies for something like
|> $2.75, one of the highest volume-to-price ratios around, and it's not
|> that bad.

I think a little too much text got deleted here.   What mall
and what Japanese place?

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From: rnewman@bbn.com (Ron Newman)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: adonde red lobster
Date: 22 Jan 93 23:01:17 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN)
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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."

-- 
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From: mondol@mtl.mit.edu (mark k. mondol)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Best Beer Selection in Boston/North Area ?
Keywords: beer stores
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:04:11 GMT
Followup-To: ne.food
Distribution: ne
Organization: MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories

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 ?
>
>	Tim

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.  

Very knowledgeable staff, they usually have someone handling questions
in the beer department and a different person handling questions in the
wine department. On the downside, they limit the beers they keep in stock
probably so they get decent turnover and therefore fresher beer. They do
have things like Kriek (sp?) , Chimay and French country style beers.

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

They do not have a regular in house expert but the staff often knows
what is what.  They have a large selection including some pretty obscure
stuff, like Thomas Hardy in several different vintages.

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 )

Large selection , convenient , open late , expensive.

Also:

Now that Cambridge Brewery has a sign up announcing it I guess I can 
mention it here too.  They sell beer to go, $10/gallon or $0.11/oz for
smaller quantities. Supply your own container ( I use 1/2 gallon mason
jars), though they might sell containers now.  Drink within 24 hours
of obtaining it.  And even 24 hours may be a bit too long.  It is
possible that other "brewpubs" have the same sort of deal. I have heard that
the "farmers and brewers" license requires it.


Mark K. Mondol
mondol@mtl.mit.edu
Newsgroups: ne.food
From: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
Subject: Re: Boston/Cambridge/Sommerville BBQ info request
Reply-To: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
Distribution: ne
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:24:35 GMT

In article <C1F722.5Jo@world.std.com> twm3@world.std.com (Thomas W  
Moore) writes:
> Hiya,
> 
> I'm looking for BBQ places in the Boston/Sommerville/Cambridge area

1.  Redbones in Davis Sq.
2.  Jimmy Mac's near Porter Sq.

The two below don't fit your spacing for 20 people criteria but I  
think they are worth mentioning on food quality alone:

3.  Jake & Earl's / East Coast Grill in Inman Sq. (though it's take  
out)  If it's still around, there's "Jake's" in the South End.
4.  House of Blues in Harvard Sq.

Personally, I love the North Carolina P.P. Sandwich at Jake n' Earls.   
Redbones is good but I never found it to be great.  IMHO.

RL
From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: More name that fast-food place
Date: 27 Jan 93 04:30:07 GMT
	<BETSYS.93Jan26131342@ra.cs.umb.edu>
	<1993Jan26.234728.23744@portal.vpharm.com>
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston

In article <1993Jan26.234728.23744@portal.vpharm.com> dap@portal.vpharm.com (David A. Pearlman) writes:

>>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. 
[...]

>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).

Ararat's is WONDERFUL. Love that garlic butter, too! I'm not really
that enamored of Moody's, but they are the only decent inexpensive
falafel that I can find in Cambridge. Skewer's in Harvard Sq is nice
but high-priced, and the "stroller" places in the square use that
gawdawful swamp-green mix.

If you know of any better places, I'm drooling! (rumor has it that the
truck in front of MIT is great, but I'm not usually around during the
day) 

thanks, Betsy
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From: dozonoff@bu.edu (david ozonoff)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Decen Boston deli?
Date: 28 Jan 93 18:10:59 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Ask for Dr. Brown's Cream Soda. Available in many "upscale"
eating places. Fairly widely available. (Many places also
have Dr. Brown's celray--much less common).

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From: dozonoff@bu.edu (david ozonoff)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Decen Boston deli?
Date: 23 Jan 93 03:40:21 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

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

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From: rnewman@bbn.com (Ron Newman)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Re: Best Beer Selection in Boston/North Area ?
Keywords: beer stores
Date: 27 Jan 93 23:25:31 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN)
NNTP-Posting-Host: spcsun25.bbn.com

In article <1993Jan27.210411.440@athena.mit.edu>, mondol@mtl.mit.edu (mark k. mondol) writes:

|> Wine and Cheese Cask (corner of Beacon and Cambridge streets ?) 
|> in Cambridge.  

That's the corner of Beacon and _Washington_ streets in _Somerville_.
(Washington Street in Somerville becomes Kirkland Street in Cambridge
about a block after this intersection.)

|> Beer store in Davis square  - The name escapes me now.
|> 
|> They do not have a regular in house expert but the staff often knows
|> what is what.  They have a large selection including some pretty obscure
|> stuff, like Thomas Hardy in several different vintages.

There are several liquor stores in Davis Square;
are you referring to Downtown Wine and Spirits, on Elm Street
about a block east of the T station?

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