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Axios
21-03-2025
- Business
- Axios
Eating your way through the new CambridgeSide food hall
The food options at CambridgeSide, formerly the Galleria mall, got a big improvement with the opening of CanalSide Food + Drink. It's a modern food hall offering quick takeout or eat-in for the East Cambridge set. Why it matters: If you work nearby, or just haven't been to the mall in a while, it's a fine place for a quick lunch. The Apple store is still there, so you can stop by and satisfy your craving for boba tea or baba ganoush while you're at it. There are 11 kiosks surrounding central seating and the C-Side Bar, which serves beer, wine and cocktails. But the best seating for a nice day is outside by the canal. Fast-casual options are: anoush'ella: Eastern Mediterranean DalMoros: Fresh Italian pasta InChu: Asian bowls Mexican kiosk Chilacates and sandwich bar Fresh are opening soon. There are go-to's like Lala's Neapolitan-ish Pizza, Sapporo Ramen and traditional American from Nu Burger. For drinks, try the bubble tea at Teazzi, plant-based smoothies at Juicygreens or coffee drinks from Caffe Nero. Far Out Ice Cream has New Zealand-style flavors, and Beard Papa's serves up cream puffs. Expert tip: You can order online from multiple kiosks for more variety in a quickie pickup order. What I ate: Labne (yogurt dip) with pita bread — $4.50 from anoush'ella Spicy miso ramen with pork — $17 from Sapporo The Power Cambridge smoothie (peanut butter, banana and almond milk) — $9.25 from Juicygreens It's not cheap by any means, but each dish was exactly what I expected. Solid B+s all around. The intrigue: A couple was having quite a loud, vulgar kickup about drug prescriptions in the booth near me before they were silenced by a mall cop on a Segway.
Yahoo
04-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
This pizza place in Wyoming offers one of my favorite new appetizers
Highly Recommended is a weekly spotlight on some of food writer Keith Pandolfi's favorite finds as he eats his way across Greater Cincinnati. Come back every Tuesday for more. It was the name alone that led me to order the Lunch at Grandma's appetizer at Twelve08 Pizza recently. The image it painted in my mind was of a 1950s-era kitchen with white vinyl floors and a metal table set with a plate of cold cuts, pickles and cheese. The grandchildren are hungry and Grandma's at the ready. At Twelve08, the pizza parlor and bar that opened in Wyoming in 2023, the plate includes thick slices of Boar's Head rosemary ham, a ball of mozzarella, olives, house-made pickles, house-made bread and a ramekin of dijon-aisse. It's served on a plain white plate, costs $14 and is more than enough for two people. It's a nostalgia-fueled start to a dinner at Twelve08, which specializes in imaginative Neapolitan-ish pizzas that are baked in a wood-fired oven (they named it Claudia) and topped with regular things like sausage, pepperoni and cheese – and gourmet things like house smoked chicken thighs and locally sourced mushrooms. While the crust shares similarities with its Campagna-born cousin, it's sturdier, sweeter and, given the topping choices, Midwesternized. My favorite, so far, is the Buffy the Vampire Slayer ($20). A smoky, savory and – hence the Ms. Summers moniker – garlicky feast of smoked chicken thighs, roasted garlic oil, mozzarella, shallots, tangy buffalo sauce and a swirl of ranch dressing. The Lion's Mane ($20), topped with mushrooms from Rich Life Farms, in New Richmond, is also good. But even the plain cheese pizza I ordered to take home to my daughter was memorable with its chewy crust and fresh mozzarella and Parmesan. The menu also includes salads, wings and desserts, including the sharable Cookie Jar, which includes 10 cookies for $15. Like its next door neighbor, Tela, Twelve08 is a nice spot to take the family for dinner or have a glass of wine, scotch, bourbon or beer with a friend. The staff is friendly and up for a chat. Just like a good grandma should be. Twelve08 Pizza, 1208 Springfield Pike, Wyoming, 513-679-7743, This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: This 'Lunch at Grandma's' appetizer found in Wyoming is pure nostalgia
WIRED
17-02-2025
- General
- WIRED
Gourmia's Low-Cost Pizza Oven and Air Fryer Scorches at 800 Degrees
Note that you might have to set the temperature on the top heating element a bit higher than the presets suggest in order to fully cook your cheese. Or not. Let's just say you don't always know how it's going to go, but it'll mostly come out all right when you're aiming at New York–style or thin-crust pies. Short-cook, high-temp pizza is more of a dice roll. And if you're making multiple pizzas, you'll probably need 5 to 7 minutes between them to get back to temp after opening the oven. To Fry or Not to Fry Unfortunately, the stone offers no thermal mass as ground cover for the thermostat while on the baking or air frying settings. If you want to use this as your standard accessory oven, you will run the risk of cooking temps being zany by 30 to 50 degrees in one direction or another. At lower temperatures especially, the oven tends to run cold. Photograph: Gourmia The oven gets more accurate at about 425 degrees Fahrenheit, which is lucky: A lot of recipes and frozen foods tend to fall into this range. But unless you feel like using temperature probes for all food, the oven will be tough to trust when you're doing something that requires more precision than toasting bread or reheating leftovers. I tried wings multiple ways, one of my standard tests for air fryers. Temperatures varied widely across the surface of the fryer basket, with cool temps at the sides and near the door. The fan from the back of the device didn't manage much more than a strong breeze, meaning this oven's 'air fryer' function is closer to old-school convection oven. True crispness was unattainable. If you throw away an air fryer or toaster oven to make room for the Gourmia, you'll probably soon miss it. A Gateway Oven Whatever the oven's inherent limitations, the internet is littered with blissfully happy customers of this Gourmia All-In-One, or the even cheaper Walmart version without the extra cooking functions. Photograph: Gourmia The reason is simple: It fills, for some, a desperate need. At a price far below the top-line models, this pizza oven can attain 800-degree temperatures, can cook indoors or in a garage during cold winters when you're probably not out building wood fires, and will probably smoke a little but not a lot. Keep your windows open, or turn on your vent fans. You can nail the heck out of a Neapolitan-ish pizza, experiment with dough hydration, and meditate on New York's great contribution to world cuisine. You can, for relatively low admission, decide whether pizza making will become a hobby. If you do, then you will probably kick this ladder away eventually. The Gourmia is a gateway oven, one that will inevitably send you either back to your local pizzeria or to a much more expensive and reliable Ooni electric that you may, like WIRED gear team editor Adrienne So, begin to treat like a member of your family. With this low-cost oven, you get what you pay for. On the bright side, you do get something.
