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Dionysos

Cambridge’s big, fat Greek restaurant
Hidden on the second floor of a second-tier Cambridge hotel, Dionysos is a much more serious Greek restaurant than anyone would expect.

By: ROBERT NADEAU | March 27, 2006

Turning green

Wines for St. Patrick’s Day
We are usually forced to endure either beer-specific holidays or wine-specific holidays, but now, for one day only, St. Patty’s Day will be a wine feast.

By: LAYNE WITHERELL | March 15, 2006

Zócalo Cocina Mexicana

Good? Sure. Authentic? Not so much.
The first thing that struck me on both visits was that the background music was Brazilian. It shifts to salsa and some Mexican pop, but Brazilian seems weird.

By: ROBERT NADEAU | March 15, 2006

Jamaica Plain’s Arbor downscales and warms up
Chef/owner Doug Organ decided that his excellent Arbor restaurant had priced and classed its way out of the neighborhood business he needed for weeknights, so he closed for a while to retool, re-price, and rename.

By: ROBERT NADEAU | March 08, 2006

Victor’s Café

Like walking through the pages of Dostoevsky — in a good way
Victor’s is a small storefront done up with linen and elegant lacy napkins to suggest a kind of budget-gourmet experience.

By: ROBERT NADEAU | March 02, 2006

Trattoria Toscana

A true taste of Italy in the Fenway
Maybe it takes an Albanian owner-chef to capture the tone and flavors of a trattoria in Tuscany.

By: ROBERT NADEAU | February 22, 2006

Toro

Great tapas, long lines
Likeable, except for the name and the lines.

By: ROBERT NADEAU | February 15, 2006

Ruth’s Chris Steak House

Taking beef and more to delicious new heights
The attractions here are serious beef (especially the filet mignon), some New Orleans dishes and trimmings, polished execution, and the fact that, while all American steak houses partake of Disney-like mythology, this one is a little less over-the-top than our last major chain entrant, Smith & Wollensky.

By: ROBERT NADEAU | February 08, 2006

Columbus Café

An altogether underrated South End treasure
This space used to house the Claremont Café, which outgrew its origins as a gourmet cafeteria to become a serious Mediterranean bistro with Peruvian menu incursions.

By: ROBERT NADEAU | January 25, 2006

Front Room (Portland Dining) list photo 1/20/06

Parlor talk

Coziness and comfort at the Front Room in Portland
The first week of December marked the opening of a new hot spot to eat in the East End of Portland. The Front Room, located on Congress Street across from the St. Lawrence Church, has been booming with business for its first month or so.

By: WILSON ROTHSCHILD | January 18, 2006

Angus Beef Steakhouse

Steaks good enough for a lobbyist, at prices a civil servant can afford once in a while
Angus Beef Steakhouse is in the newish Bulfinch Hotel near North Station.

By: ROBERT NADEAU | January 23, 2006

Cold comfort

Frozen foods warm the heart
Like any good codependent, frozen food’s effects are soporific. It prolongs and deepens our suffering even as it makes it bearable.

By: BRIAN DUFF | January 12, 2006

Venice Restaurant

A Westerly restaurant that's just like mama’s kitchen
Driving through a cold and rainy South County, we were summoned by a place that beckons like a campfire in the winter woods.

By: BILL RODRIGUEZ | January 12, 2006

Flames II

Caribbean flavors sizzle in a no-frills setting
If you’re reading this, you’re probably not in the Caribbean right now, and wish that you were.

By: ROBERT NADEAU | January 18, 2006

2005 Boston Restaurant Awards

The best of this year's dining
Once again we reach year’s end, and I pass out some awards to summarize the year in restaurant reviews.

By: ROBERT NADEAU | January 07, 2006

Finding the Range

A Portland eatery goes too far, not far enough, and just right
Caiola’s, a new venture on Pine Street in the West End of Portland, sets you at ease from the moment you walk up to the door.

By: BRIAN DUFF | January 12, 2006

Middle of Nowhere Diner

Bounty in the countryside
Lions, and tigers, and bears — oh no!

By: BILL RODRIGUEZ | January 17, 2006

Jack’s Family Restaurant

A Portuguese-inspired feast
If you liked the marinated smelts here when the place opened in 1972, the popular appetizer still tastes the same today.

By: BILL RODRIGUEZ | January 04, 2006

Aardman, regular Brits give 'Comforts' to U.S

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - One of the silliest, most inventive and most artfully produced programs to come along in years arrives in the U.S. next month on BBC America from Aardman Animations, the British outfit whose feature "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" is playing in domestic multiplexes.

By: Mike Smith | December 18, 2005

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