IN THE KITCHEN I’ve wanted the recipe for El Sarape’s cilantro sauce for ages, but whenever I’ve asked, all I’ve gotten is a smile. Javier Adame, who owns the restaurant with his brother Guillermo, learned it from his mother growing up in Saltillo, Mexico. On Oct. 6, the … [Read more...]
New Tokyo Japanese Steak House in Braintree
Before you even approach the hostess at Braintree’s new Tokyo Japanese Steak House, you have to make a choice: do you want to go left or right? Nod your head to the right, and you can sit in a booth at a granite table with an electric burner embedded in its center. Go left and … [Read more...]
Sintra: A treasure of a restaurant in Braintree
It’s nice to see a restaurant grow, bit by bit, expanding as time passes and needs arise. When owner-Chef Brian Jenkins and his wife Kerri opened Sintra in 2003 it was a storefront space with 40-foot ceilings, a loft, and its “front” door around the back. In 2007, Jenkins took … [Read more...]
Nordstrom Cafe Bistro surprisingly good
Even though a friend had been raving to me about Café Bistro in the new Nordstrom at the South Shore Plaza for a few weeks, I wasn’t hearing her. An unconscious notion -- that a restaurant in a department store couldn’t be a good restaurant -- was so lodged in my mind that I … [Read more...]
From South Shore chefs with love
The Lombardo's table at A Taste of the South Shore. (Photo by Richard W. Green) Think of the work it takes to make a good, simple dinner. Then imagine doing that times 100 from morning to late at night, sometimes seven days a week, holidays absolutely included, often working in … [Read more...]
