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• Commented on Post 390 Opens with Fireplaces and Flatbread in Back Bay
  Thanks, andrewjh! Please forgive my temporary bout of architectural dyslexia....
• Posted Post 390 Opens with Fireplaces and Flatbread in Back Bay to Bostonist
  Post 390, which opened on Friday, October 2nd, is billing itself as a “neighborhood restaurant.” This, despite the fact that it is being run by Eric Brennan, who has served as the executive chef for larger-than-life brands like the late Excelsior and the Four Seasons. This, despite the fact that it is being funded by big names like Kenneth Himmel, the restaurateur behind the Time Warner Center in NYC (home to Thomas Keller’s Per Se) and the CityPlace in West Palm Beach. This, despite the fact that the restaurant itself is a far-from-intimate two-floor space, with walls shaved clean of any hints that it was once a postal building, as its name hints. This, despite the fact that it is sandwiched between two larger-than-life iconic Boston buildings (the Prudential and its sidekick, the Trinity Church) in a “neighborhood” of high rises. All this means that it requires no small feat of imagination—in fact, it may require an outright suspension of disbelief—to see Post 390 as a “neighborhood restaurant.” But thanks to a food and beverage program that is strong straight out of the gate, a reasonably priced menu of true comfort foods, a few well-placed fireplaces and a staff with a built-in sense of warmth and hospitality (led by the grinning Brennan himself), Post 390 could transcend all that to become exactly what its clever marketers and anxious investors want it to be.
• Commented on Skepchick: The First Rule of Laugh Club is No One Laughs About Laugh Club
  "Everyone knows that booze is the best medicine, followed closely by penicillin, then more booze, then chemotherapy, and then laughter." This is very true, and also gave me a good laugh. It strikes me that while wit such as Watson's...
• Posted Great Bay, Icarus, Aujourd'hui Close Their Doors to Bostonist
  We've seen the dinosaurs of our city, aging restaurants like Great Bay, Aujourd'hui and Icarus, go down this week, felled by the figurative dust cloud of the recent recession. Great Bay closed its doors this weekend; Aujourd'hui, in the Four Seasons, will become a private function room later this month; Icarus will close on July 1. All have cited the economy as a major factor in their decision.
• Commented on Deviled Egg Throwdown Tonight at PA's
  Yayy, I will be there! You can read more about the event and its anger-inducing origins on Lissa's blog: http://womendo.blogspot.com/2009/05/deviled-egg-off.html "A few months ago, you may recall, we got our knickers in a twist over a really thickheaded Globe story...