Results tagged “cincodemayo”

• Wellesley goes all H1N1. [Wellesley Townsman]
• As does Somerville.. [Somerville Journal]
• And the Public Garden goes swan (flu-free... we hope). [Globe]

An early Easter made April less holiday-filled than usual, so now that May has rolled around, everyone's ready for a bit of celebrating. The first of May is host to more holidays than you might imagine, from the obvious MAYDAY! to the perhaps lesser-known Law Day. Here's an overview of May 1 holidays and a brief preview of stuff to do on May 5, Boston's beloved CINCO DE MAYO (strangely unrelated to the sandwich spread).

Bostonist loves restaurants where they prepare the food right there at your table. It’s not that we have some neat-freak, O.C.D. thing (well, ask our roommate and then you decide), but we love to see the process of it all. When we were a kid, it was the Chinese restaurant's sizzling rice soup that crackled and bubbled at our table. In college, we moved onto the Japanese steak house where the chef fried up the meat right there on the grill table. Recently, we traveled to Ole Mexican Grill in Inman Square for the guacamole that is made fresh tableside. Bostonist likes to believe we are guacamole experts, so we went in with doubts; once we gave it a try at Ole, we became fans of their green-hued dip.

Everyone loves Cinco de Mayo, with it's debauched beer- and margarita-drinking, it's mariachi music, and its complete disconnection from the historical event it commemorates. But Cinco de Mayo is in the past, and now it's time for Veinticinco de Mayo! Bostonist knows what you're thinking: "Huh? Whuh?" Had we not once resided in Argentina, we might be thinking the same thing. But in fact, the 25th of May is an important Argentinian holiday, and Bostonist strongly urges you to celebrate.

Today is the fifth day of May, or Cinco de Mayo to all our Spanish-speaking friends out there. Now in Mexico, Cinco de Mayo is a national holiday celebrating a victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla in 1862; for Americans, it is a holiday to celebrate Mexican heritage no matter what you are with lots of tequila, guacamole and sobreros. Like all the non-Irish who partake in St. Patrick's Day, many non-Mexicans...