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Lucca South Shore serves up food fit for the gods

WHO’S IN CHARGE Executive chef Anthony Mazzotta of Rockland’s new Lucca South Shore has a tasty bio that’s a good fit for the organically grown careers of the new restaurant’s three owners. Sean Williams, Matthew Williams (they’re brothers), and Ted Kennedy opened the first Lucca in Boston’s North End in 2000. The trio have since[…..]

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Warmth, great food make Cohasset’s Corner Stop a must

WHO’S IN CHARGE It’s hard to beat a family-run eatery like Cohasset’s Corner Stop for heart. Over the last seven years, husband and wife Rudy and Ron Vale have created a big welcoming restaurant infused with a sense of community and warmth. Having both worked in the industry for years before taking the plunge and[…..]

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Twice as lucky as cafe opens second location

ON THE MENU Bottom line for a place like this: The espresso drinks and drip house coffees are very well done and so are many of the teas and other hot and cold drinks. I so appreciate that the café filters its water: Check out the black canisters and copper piping construction on the wall near the espresso machine. I like that the chai latte ($3.75/$4) is a house-brewed chai tea with steamed milk and no sweetener, so you can add you own. The fresh-squeezed lemonade ($3.75) is still a standout and now there’s a lovely, mild hibiscus ginger kombucha ($4/$4.75) on tap (ask for it without ice). Favored eats include various baked goods, sandwiches, salads, soups, acai bowls, desserts, and more. With the new kitchen, Stoddard is refining the menu as she goes. Among my go-to lunches are the delicious cranberry walnut chicken salad ($8), ordered on the terrific sourdough, and the tomato pesto mozzarella panini ($8). The garden salad ($8) is a good lunch ordered with a scoop of tuna fish or chicken salad (add $3.50). For something small and savory, the clam chowder ($6) still works its classic magic. And, for sweets, the macaroons ($2.50/3 for $7) from Weymouth’s Farmhouse Baking Co. are a standout: so good with a coffee at tea time. joan wilder boson globe

WHO’S IN CHARGE People are drawn to the restaurant business from all different backgrounds and succeed in as many ways. Talk to Mary Ellen Stoddard, owner of the new, second Lucky Finn Café at the equally new Merchants Row in Hanover and you learn her secret: She has her hand in absolutely every part of[…..]

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The Daily Press in Cohasset

WHO’S IN CHARGE Once upon a time — in Julia Child’s day, say — people cooked, dined out, and ate whatever the heck they wanted with pure joy and abandon, but not anymore. Today, our heads are filled with thoughts about which foods are good and bad and guilt that we should be eating better.[…..]

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Unassuming Thai cafe packs a punch

WHO’S IN CHARGE It took Pookie Akarasereepoowapon 10 years to find her way to owning her own place — the wonderful Eggs & Thai Café in Dedham Center. The Bangkok-born Marlborough resident moved to the United States in 2008 and spent her first year working in the kitchen of her aunt’s restaurant in Nashua. But[…..]

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At family-style A3, Italian-American menu is just right

IN THE KITCHEN If you live in the suburbs, you might not have a family-style eatery nearby that’s consistently good enough to frequent often like people do in many cities, especially European ones. But Boston’s suburban dining scene gets better every year, and Kingston took a step in that direction with the opening in 2017[…..]

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An iconic oceanfront restaurant is transformed

The beach bar dining room at the new Parrot in Hull by Joan Wilder for the Boston Globe

WHO’S IN CHARGE Chef Brian Houlihan has really topped himself this time. On July 4, the restaurateur slung a banner from the former Red Parrot in Hull unveiling his newest restaurant’s new name, The Parrot, and opening its doors. Never mind that three of the enormous restaurant’s reconfigured dining areas were still under construction: The[…..]

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Legacy Place gets family-run Italian restaurant

Il Massimo's frito misto, a piping hot plate of fried shrimp, scallops, calamari, octopus, and smelts. Photo by Joan Wilder for the Boston Globe.

WHO’S IN CHARGE It’s uplifting that the newest restaurant at Dedham’s Legacy Place is an Italian family-run spot, not a chain. Il Massimo is owned by Esther and Joseph DeQuattro, a husband-and-wife team from Providence. The couple have been in the business since opening their first restaurant, Pane e Vino, on Federal Hill in Providence[…..]

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Sipping coffee by the sea in Scituate on a summer day

Lucky Finn Cafe on Scituate Harbor. Photo by Joan Wilder for the Boston Globe.

WHO’S IN CHARGE From the day Mary Ellen Stoddard got the idea to buy the Lucky Finn Café to the day she sealed the deal was exactly three months. That was in June 2017 and since then, Stoddard has expanded to year-round service and added a few menu items, but otherwise hasn’t changed much at[…..]

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Salt raw bar in Plymouth

A single Wellfleet oyster at Salt. Photo by Joan Wilder for the Boston Globe.

WHO’S IN CHARGE Chef Johnny Sheehan has got himself his first restaurant on the Plymouth waterfront. Sheehan, who worked in Boston at Ken Oringer’s Clio and the remarkable but short-lived Liquid Art House, has partnered with co-owner Dan Casinelli and family to open Salt Raw Bar. Casinelli, a Plymouth native, worked as a restaurant service[…..]

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