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Mike & Patty's opens in Lexington; Darling debuts in Cambridge
Mike & Patty's opens in Lexington; Darling debuts in Cambridge

Boston Globe

time21 hours ago

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Mike & Patty's opens in Lexington; Darling debuts in Cambridge

In Salem, N.H., artisanal ice cream parlor Salt & Straw opened its first New England location at Tuscan Village (400 Artisan Drive) on Wednesday, July 2. The Oregon-based shop scoops unusual flavors like goat cheese marionberry habanero and pear with blue cheese. Visit daily from 11 a.m. Get Winter Soup Club A six-week series featuring soup recipes and cozy vibes, plus side dishes and toppings, to get us all through the winter. Enter Email Sign Up And at Brighton's Charles River Speedway (525 Western Ave.), Will Isaza and Jen LaForge ( Birds of Paradise ) introduce Salsa Shack , a pop-up running through December, serving corn tortilla tacos and corn chowder. Advertisement Coming soon : In Central Square, the highly anticipated Darling opens on Friday, July 11, replacing the Orfano , Row 34 , Tiger Mama ) and Zimu Chen ( Eastern Standard , Mariel ), with Mark O'Leary ( O Ya and Shojo ) in the kitchen. Advertisement There's a 40-seat lounge and a 16-seat bar spinning hip-hop and punk. On the dim-sum-style menu: soy-braised duck feet, a 'filet o' fish' bao, and red-braised pork ribs. Visit Tuesday through Sunday from 5 p.m. Boston Public Market (100 Hanover St.) introduces Melt in Your Mouth , an all-natural bakery run by Silpa Pande, featuring sweets free of preservatives and high fructose corn syrup. She started the business at the Walpole Farmers Market and recently won the BPM's Entrepreneurship Forum Incubator Competition, allowing for a rent-free stall starting this fall, lasting for a year. Kara Baskin can be reached at

8 Must-Try Restaurant and Bar Openings Around Boston, June 2025
8 Must-Try Restaurant and Bar Openings Around Boston, June 2025

Eater

time4 days ago

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  • Eater

8 Must-Try Restaurant and Bar Openings Around Boston, June 2025

This monthly column highlights notable restaurant openings in and around Boston. Catch up on more news about Boston restaurant openings right here. Know of a new or soon-to-open restaurant that should be on Eater Boston's radar? Get in touch here . Brighton: Bar stars Will Isaza and Jen LaForge have opened a new spot for tacos at the Charles River Speedway. Salsa Shack is slinging 'New England-style' street tacos with options such as braised pork belly, Old Bay butter chicken, and mushroom al pastor, plus sides including corn chowder and guacamole served with Nantucket Crisps. 525 Western Avenue Cambridge: The cheekily named TooHot, a new Sichuan restaurant from the folks behind Noah's Kitchen in Brookline Village, has opened in Harvard Square. Don't miss the mapo stone pot tofu, which showcases the kitchen's skills with málà, the tingly, numbing spices quintessential to Sichuan cooking. 16-18 Eliot Street East Boston: Essential Boston restaurant Taqueria Jalisco has opened a gorgeous new outpost in Orient Heights with a full slate of cocktails, an expanded food menu, and a lot more seating for dine-in customers. 980 Saratoga Street Seaport: Waterfront date-night spot Wood's Hill Pier 4 has opened a more casual sibling next to the restaurant called the Block. Head here for plates of dry-aged meats and fish, pig's ear tots, salmon belly crudo, and more. 300 Pier 4 Boulevard Seaport: New England's premier oyster farm, Island Creek Oysters, opened an outdoor raw bar at the Seaport this month. Come to the Island Creek Raw Bar to slurp oysters and snack on caviar and tinned fish, or order a sushi roll featuring seafood from Boston fish market Red's Best. 99 Autumn Lane South Boston: Kristin Jenkins, the owner behind romantic Beacon Hill restaurant 1928, has opened her second restaurant, the Essex, inside the Cambria Hotel in South Boston. The new spot also includes a rooftop bar and restaurant, the Essex Rooftop, with plenty of picture-perfect views of the Boston skyline. 6 West Broadway South Boston: Crowds are already gathering at Park City, a 30,000 square-foot outdoor space with a restaurant, bar, and lots of family-friendly space to hang out. (Bring the pups, too!) It's all engineered by the team behind Broadway Restaurant Group, which also runs neighborhood hot spots like Lincoln Tavern and Loco Taqueria. 411 Dorchester Avenue Roxbury: New York City-based restaurant chain Xi'an Famous Foods, known for its bouncy hand-pulled noodles, has entered the Boston market with a ghost kitchen in Roxbury. A standalone Downtown Crossing location is coming later this year, the Boston Globe reports. 94 Shirley Street See More: Boston Restaurant Openings

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