Far from the beaten track, just off the road to Duxbury Beach, is a taco shack with good, inexpensive Tex-Mex favorites for eating in (casually), or taking out, day or night. YoTaco, which opened late last summer, has a small menu of mostly tacos, burritos, and quesadillas as … [Read more...]
Beachfront dining
You don’t really have to know much about the food at Beachfire Restaurant & Bar to decide to check it out. Beachfire is the only restaurant in Hull right on the beach rather than across the street from it. And, although it doesn’t look like much from the front, once you … [Read more...]
The Bailey
There’s great pride of place in the large, dark wooden sign that hangs from the high rafters at The Bailey pub in Marshfield’s Brant Rock. “The Bailey” it reads, “Proprietor Bill Bailey; Est. 2010.” Painted on the sign is an evocative graphic of four people carrying a rowboat … [Read more...]
Beach shack offers smart menu, music
Although the Nantasket Beach strip is a pale reflection of its glory days as Paragon (amusement) Park, a whiff of the traveling carny still flavors the narrow stretch of old arcades and summer buildings that fronts the beach. Just north of the carousel, among the many faded … [Read more...]
A comfy spot gets sophisticated
It's easy to miss Remick’s, the new restaurant in downtown Quincy at the site of the former Finian’s. The brick building is quietly handsome and the only sign is a flat spread of letters that simply spells Remick’s. The interior design is similarly … [Read more...]
Sea views with each bite
Oh, the joy of a waterside table! And after the winter we’ve had, it’s magical to sit at one even if you’re wearing a coat. The water, in this case, is the same body through which the Pilgrims made their way to Plymouth Rock (the boulder’s just up the road) and the restaurant is … [Read more...]
Met Bar & Grill at Legacy Place
It’s so easy to criticize restaurants and so hard to run them. Turning out hundreds of dishes, fast, day in and day out is a monumental effort. And although that’s the business restaurateurs have chosen, I think it’s smart for diners to recognize what it takes to give them 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...]
Saporito’s still great after all these years
When Saporito’s Florence Club Café opened in 1988, it was a shining star in an otherwise fairly lackluster South Shore dining scene. The small, fine dining room became known far and wide, received awards and accolades, and remained at the height of its glory throughout the ’90s. … [Read more...]
Celebrity chef series at Hingham’s Summer Shack
Living and dining in today’s ubiquitous celebrity chef and foodie culture, anyone could be forgiven for not knowing that the American food scene wasn’t always so. But chef Jasper White [left], who was part of the culinary flowering of the late ’70s that led to the scene as it is … [Read more...]
