Boston University Gets a Slice of Otto Pizza
The new Commonwealth Avenue location for Brookline's pizza-serving newcomers Otto Pizza is now open.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Boston University Gets a Slice of Otto Pizza
The new Commonwealth Avenue location for Brookline's pizza-serving newcomers Otto Pizza is now open.
Boston University students, and anyone on Commonwealth Avenue, can become topping enthusiasts at Otto Pizza's newest location. Otto, who opened their first spot in the Brookline area earlier this year, moved into 888 Comm Ave, a site which once held the Upper Crust pizza which shuttered suddenly in June. The BU-adjacent Otto is the restaurant chain's fifth restaurant, and third in the Boston metro area. See photos from the restaurant on Otto Pizza's Pinterest page. The restaurant seats 60, and serves the same pizza menu as at their Readers Choice-winning Coolidge Corner location from 11:30 a.m. to midnight on weekdays, and until 1 a.m. on weekends. According to the Otto Blog, they are also working on delivery from that location--although…
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Friday, July 20, 2012
Several Changes for Brookline's Food Landscape
With a number of changes coming to restaurants in the Brookline area, where will you be going for dinner?
Whether you consider yourself a Brookline foodie, or just want somewhere new to take someone special on a date, there are a few changes coming to the nightlife landscape in Brookline. In case you missed a story, here are the quick hits: So, what might this mean for Brookline's foodies? We asked food blogger and Patch Columnist Cristin Nelson, who said: "While there's a very vibrant restaurant culture in Brookline, it often caters towards the same type of person, which can send other segments away towards other areas like Allston or downtown Boston. But this could be an exciting time for business owners who hope to attract an entirely new segment of people." For examples, she said that Otto's new location in Coolidge Corner is now Otto's …
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Thursday, June 21, 2012
Bites Nearby
The Washington Square Tavern: Beer, Burgers, and Banter
This hip tavern hangout might surprise you with its creative menu.
A visit to The Washington Square Tavern is an evening for good beer, good burgers, and good banter. It’s like going to a party at the cool kids' place—you know the ones, who ironically wear tweed jackets and stock their bookshelves with Kerouac and Vonnegut. Here at the Tavern, the décor is an homage to a passion for books and for biking, in the form of low, dark wood bookshelves and black-and-white photos of the Tour de France. There's a jovial feel in the air, cultivated by Gerry, the owner, who greets the regulars by name. One of my dining companions remarked that "all the faces look familiar—I feel like I know everybody here." The menu, mostly inspired riffs on comfortable dishes, is so much more than burgers. It's approachable, yet …
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
Bites Nearby
Golden Temple: Dinner for the Lunar New Year
Beacon Street restaurant-cum-nightclub offers an enticing pan-Asian dinner, but a heavy hand with the oil
For many observing the Lunar New Year, the perfect way to ring in the year of the water dragon is with an enticing feast of Chinese food. And Golden Temple feels like an inviting place to celebrate. This is sort of a restaurant-cum-nightclub, one half resembling cruise-ship style opulence—perfect for the sixty-and-up crowd—and the other half a bar under a high ceiling that, architecturally at least, makes me think of dining inside a beehive. The crowd here is a mix of teenyboppers and middle-aged folks lingering over their happy hour drinks, ordering everything from margaritas to sake to adeptly-mixed drinks with names like the Raspberry Retropolitan and the Suffering Bastard. The menu's length approaches the overwhelming, offering a …
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Bites Nearby
Jerusalem Pita: Where Eggplant Steals the Show
A humble eggplant appetizer is the star at this Coolidge Corner restaurant.
As a rule, I’m not given to superlatives—with the written word, it’s too easy to fall into a hole I can’t climb out of. But folks, the truth is that I’ve found the best eggplant dish in Brookline. It’s at Jerusalem Pita, just off of Coolidge Corner, selected at random from a menu endearingly full of spelling errors. The Eggplant Rolls are somewhat doleful-looking bits of cold eggplant, perhaps inviting a bit of ‘order remorse’ when you see them on the plate, weeping olive oil and spooned over with a green relish of raw garlic, parsley, dill (the dill most of all, that marvelous, underappreciated herb). But take one bite of this little appetizer and you’ll rhapsodize for hours about these long-marinated, ultra-tender morsels, about their…
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Patch Passport
Patch Passport: Dining Around the World in Brookline
Did you know your town offers places to sample all the tastes of the world? The Saturday Patch Passport is a complete list of places to eat in your town organized by international flavor.
Do you want to get out of the kitchen, but are bored of the same old places you always go to? Want some fresh ideas for tasty meals? Then the Patch Passport can help. We have assembled a list of local places with international flavors. Try one out and let us know what you think. Bon Appetit!
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Grahame Turner
10:54 pm on Sunday, July 31, 2011
You raise a really good point, so thanks! I've added them to the captions. To answer your questions, you can pick up a breakfast quesadilla at Dorado, or the lobster tacos at Lineage. more ›