In honor of the upcoming Extreme Beer Fest (Feb 20 & 21), today we’re going to discuss extreme beers. What is it exactly that makes a beer “extreme”?
Boston Wine Expo: Spit or Swallow?
Our friends over at The Second Glass have a wonderful slideshow of Wine Expo photos from their booth. Looks like some folks didn't take our advice about spitting.
This past weekend, Chinatown was abuzz with preparations for Chinese New Year, which begins today. Tables were set up on the sidewalks, selling flowers and paper lanterns, the line to get into Eastern Live Poultry was down the block, and large family groups were grabbing tables at the Gourmet Dumpling House.
$85-175, Ticket sales start at 11am (no longer available online)
Boston's locavores are really happy at the moment. We're talking about how happy we are a lot, so forgive us if this is redundant, won't you please?
Despite the fact that Happy Hour drink deals are illegal in Boston, there are still a lot of great deals to be had at bars around town. The bar at McCormick & Schmick's, for example, offers up cheap and delicious meals, a pleasant surprise considering that dinner there can be more on the expensive side.
B-Side Lounge to Reopen
Daniel Lanigan, owner of Amherst beer haven the Moan and Dove, announced yesterday that he has bought the B-Side Lounge in Cambridge and will be reopening it soon. He adds that "the bar will continue to have a fantastic cocktail list [and] I will also try to add a world class beer list." The B-Side announced its bankruptcy in December after closing in November. The B-Side is widely considered to be Patient Zero in the epidemic of expensive, classic cocktails in the Boston drinking scene.
A few beer events coming up that you don’t want to miss:
Every few months, there’s a press dinner that tempts every half-qualified food writer and lifestyle blogger in the metro area to come out of the woodwork. This week, it was a dinner at Sensing, the new hotel restaurant inside the Fairmount Battery Wharf, which sits at the far end of Hanover facing the harbor. The blogger bait? Three Michelin star chef Guy Martin (that’s pronounced Gee Marten, for those of us who didn’t take French in high school), who’s a bit of a celeb chef in France, and who has chosen Boston for the American debut of his restaurant, Sensing.
Excelsior may not seem like the type of place to find cheap food, but at the downstairs bar, there are always surprises to be had. Be it $1 oysters (on Tuesdays and Wednesdays), half-priced pizzas (on Sundays and Mondays), or their new Winter Warmer Suppers, the deals at Excelsior's bar offer gourmet food at very low prices.
In late winter, Bostonist Locavores notice, charcuterie frequently gets some action in the media. People like to play with the bits of the animals that get slaughtered right before it gets too cold to feed them the things that are growing in the farms.
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