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Pomodoro: Winning Food, Missing Manners

Dishes delight at this Brookline Village, but the service doesn’t measure up

Hidden in Brookline Village is Pomodoro, a little restaurant that you’d swear was meant for the North End.  Perhaps that’s because the original Pomodoro is, in fact, on Hanover Street in the North End, a tiny place with eight tables and amazing Italian food. The Brookline Village location is bigger and more chic, with exposed brick, gentle earth tones, and a slick bar anchoring the center of the table space.  Jazz standards croon gently in the background. One can picture herself at that swanky bar, sipping a glass of Italian red or a cocktail like the Italian margarita, featuring housemade infused tequila. Pomodoro is a restaurant that requires some concessions. It’s cash only, so plan ahead or make a quick amble down to the ATM. The …

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Paris Creperie: the Art of the Crepe

Patch Readers' choice for Best Smoothie in Brookline offers more than just smoothies

Jay Silverston is a fixture behind the register at Paris Creperie, taking orders and doling out deadpan quips in equal measure. Not catching a customer's name, he asks her to repeat it. "Kyle or Clark?" Jay asks.  It's Kyle.  "Are you sure?" he inquires, straightfaced. Behind this comedic welcome is the assembly line, where a few crepe makers work perhaps half a dozen broad circular griddles.  A ladleful of dun-colored batter slurps onto the first griddle, cooking and setting as it's teased into a perfect circle.  Then it's peeled from the griddle and slapped onto another, a blank canvas to receive its fillings--perhaps a cloak of gently-melting cheese, or thin pink layers of ham.  The final step is folding layer upon layer of thin, light …

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Grahame Turner

2:41 pm on Friday, March 30, 2012

I believe it's a more limited selection, although mostly the really popular items. I know Nutella Hot Chocolate smoothies are slated for the list. They did post their summer schedule to Facebook the other day: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Paris-Creperie/162116874163   more ›

Diverse, Diet-Friendly Cafe to Come to Brookline Village

Engaged couple to open a cafe this spring before they wed in July.

Some couples get engaged and buy a dog or a new apartment to settle into the married life. Other couples, like Daoud Tayeh and Kaitlin Donnelly, open a café. Olea will replace Sandwich Works in Brookline Village with a diverse, seasonal menu that offers food with some serious worldly influence: Mediterranean, Italian, Greek, Moroccan and beyond. “We have a passion for food services,” Tayeh said. “We like good food and we want to share that with the community.” Olea will move in across the street from the popular KooKoo’s Café, but Tayeh said Olea’s menu will have unique and accessible options, including several vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free items. They said their cultural flare for food will be paired with healthy options, making Olea …

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