A new restaurant in New York City has ditched the phone and adopted a unique reservation system: the Internet. Momofuku Ko, a new French Asian restaurant (perhaps similar to our own new French Asian house, see Banq Restaurant) by famed chef David Chang, runs a no favor or hook-up gathering place. The only way to [...]

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If you’re like us, Boston’s Restaurant Week always sneaks up on you, and you rarely have an opportunity to grab a table at that new restaurant that you have yet to try. Well, Restaurant Week has been announced for a little while now (scheduled for March 9 – 14 & 16 – 21), but there [...]

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It’s no surprise that a stone’s throw from one of the South End’s most upscale condo developments, Atelier 505, sits one of the South End’s most coveted French restaurants, Hamersley’s Bistro. The two are similar on many counts, along with several distinctions. Condos at Atelier 505 mimic the availability of tables at Hamersley’s. There are [...]

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Recent updates to the ground floor commercial space in Allele Boston has a Jae’s Cafe TBD restaurant moving in, rather than a spin-off of Newbury Street’s Tapeo, as reported earlier in the summer (Tapeo Restaurant to Open in South Boston). A restaurant in Allele, regardless of who gets the coveted spot, will make a great [...]

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We had the opportunity to stop into J.J. Foley’s in Boston’s South End for a grand opening expansion party. The well known bar has just expanded to add a cafe where one can now get lunch, dinner and weekend brunch. The spread of food, including mimosas, bloody mary’s, and full samples from the new brunch [...]

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As we reported back in July, the boutique luxury Penny Savings Bank condo development in the South End will house a new restaurant called banQ – what an appropriate play on words. The restaurant is moving towards a grand opening, and they are on the lookout for a new chef. Boston Chefs recently reported the [...]

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We’ve been informed that Tapeo of Newbury Street will open a second restaurant near the Red Line Broadway T-Step area in the ground floor of Allele Boston, a new boutique South Boston condo development at 150 Dorchester Avenue slated for an early 2008 opening. Tapeo will create a new name, possibly “Sapeo“, and will plan [...]

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As you may know, the 23-unit luxury condo development, Penny Savings Bank, in the South End recently opened to residents. In addition to the residential units that fill the former bank, two commercial spaces exist along Washington Street. One of those commercial spaces will be filled by Citibank (you cannot have a condo development called [...]

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