It was a star-studded week in the Hub, but no celebrities were more prominent than Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel who managed to hit four of Boston's top restaurants while in town for just a few days. Elsewhere, Alicia Sacramone and Brady Quinn were spotted in Somerville, and in perhaps the best random appearance of the week, a Japanese hip hop star got ice cream with a Harvard professor. Sure!
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Inside the Bocuse D’Or USA Finals
The Bocuse D’Or USA finals yesterday in Hyde Park resembled Iron Chef. The twelve-chef tournament is a kitchen-versus-kitchen competition in front of a live audience, judged by culinary luminaries, with a limited set of central ingredients (salmon, lamb) and a stressfully restrictive time limit (3.5 hours). But the converted gymnasium at the Culinary Institute of America was no Kitchen Stadium: Instead of engaging with the audience and performing for the cameras, competitors worked in stoic isolation, separated from the audience and one another in Plexiglas kitchen cubicles, while in-house video crews caught every move for the large projection screens hanging overhead.
Boston Beer Works Expands Southward
Boston Beer Works will open its fifth branch in Hingham, reports the Patriot-Ledger. The new location, which will actually be called Hingham Beer Works, will open this summer in the same Shipyard complex as Johnny Drama Paul Wahlberg-helmed Alma Nove. Between Hingham Beer Works, Alma Nove, and the Summer Shack outpost that opened this fall, Hingham is fast becoming the South Shore's biggest dining destination.
Boston Beer Works Owner is Opening a Restaurant in Hingham [Patriot-Ledger via Boston Restaurant Talk]
"I sometimes come by the restaurant and talk to the cooks. I sometimes walk to a bookstore... Mostly I just stay home. It’s the one time I feel like I can exhale, and just get ready to begin again." — Slow-food evangelist and Chez Panisse proprietor Alice Waters in the Times' Sunday Routine column. [NYT]
Mayor Menino Isn't on Team Shake Shack
New York's original Shake Shack
Boston could be one step closer to a Shake Shack now that Mayor Menino has proposed legislation to allow fifteen year leases at the Pink Palace on the Common and the Duck House in the Fens, a move that the Parks Department hopes will encourage potential tenants to invest in the spaces. But don't get too excited for the Shack yet. "Pink Palace and Duck House are unique locations that a local chef or entrepreneur could potentially improve for the enjoyment of thousands of park visitors annually,” says Menino in his press release on the new legislation. Local chef or entrepreneur? Sounds like the Mayor is on Team No Shack.
With Menino's Backing, Park Makeovers on Tap [Official Site]
Earlier: Do Bostonians Want a Shake Shack?
Could the Fens Get Its Own Park Restaurant?
Bill Murray and Anthony Bourdain Go on a Man Date
Bill Murray tends to show up in unexpected places, and his appearance on tonight’s aforementioned Hudson Valley episode of No Reservations is no exception. Here's a clip of Bourdain and Murray at X20 in Yonkers, and check out Tony’s blog for his story about riding shotgun with Murray (in an SUV, not a golf cart).
Todd English Tries to Forget 2009
"It’s been a year of reinvention," understates Todd English in a massive Globe profile of the celebrity chef. To recap: English was named in no fewer than five lawsuits, including one filed by the landlord of his D.C. Olives; the owner of a Soho apartment he leased; the florist for his aborted wedding, a New York publicist; and, most bizarrely, a New York recording studio, which charges that English rented the studio and never paid. Are we missing out on a Todd English album?
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que’s Expansion May Be Low and Slow
Don’t get too excited about Dinosaur Bar-B-Que’s expansion just yet. After getting the latest from John Stage about the waterfront location that opens upstate this summer, the Troy Record informs: “As for whether there will be any further expansions of the chain in the future, Stage said that remains unclear. ‘I never say anything until I feel it,’ he said, noting that, with the Troy opening and moving his Harlem location across the street in New York City, he couldn’t see himself opening another location right away.”
The man behind Dinosaur Bar-B-Que [Troy Record]
Andrew Zimmern Endorses Cambridge Candidate; Ocean Spray Creates Cranberry Spectacular
• Bizarre Foods host Andrew Zimmern endorsed childhood friend Mike Albano for State Senate. [Cantabrigia]
• Ocean Spray will create a "cranberry spectacular" at the Olympics — thirteen million berries floating in the shape of the Olympic logo. [Herald]
• MTV is desperately trying to rein in the Jersey Shore cast's club appearances, but to little avail. [NYP]
• Health's December issue recycled recipes from Real Simple. [NYT]
02/05/10
Sportello’s Serving Donuts, Duck Hash at New Brunch
Starting tomorrow, you can spend weekend mornings feasting in Fort Point once Sportello launches brunch. The menu includes homemade donuts, eggs Benedict with prosciutto cotto, and corned duck hash with a slow-cooked egg. Brunch runs fro 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. every weekend. Now if only Drink would open at the same time.
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