On New Year’s Eve Boston’s iconic Back Bay restaurant, L’Espalier will close its doors after forty years. My husband casually mentioned this as we were eating dinner tonight much to my utter disappointment as I had hoped that we would return to celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary this summer. Ten years ago this coming August […]
Restaurants, Events & Locations
Brunch with Santa at Weekapaug Inn
This morning we took our kids to Weekapaug Inn for a very special brunch with Santa. Full disclosure…I am married to the inn keeper…so it would be fair to say I am a little biased. Even so, this was an amazing experience for our kids and one that they won’t soon forget. This magical brunch […]
Second Annual Mystic Food Truck Rally 2016
We spent the afternoon in Mystic, Connecticut at the Mystic Aquarium for the second annual Mystic Food Truck Rally. It was our first time going and we had such fun. You never know how things will go when you venture out alone with kids at lunchtime. Mine were particularly patient and well behaved today so […]
Savoy Bookshop and Cafe in Westerly, Rhode Island
When we moved here a year ago one of the things that we fell in love with was the little downtown area not too far from our new house. For nearly a year we have carefully watched the progress of the renovation of a gorgeous old building called The Savoy. With promises to be a […]
2016 James Beard Semifinalists from Massachusetts
The James Beard semifinalists were announced last week and we are revisiting a few of our favorites from Massachusetts. Nominated for Rising Star of the Year is Irene Li from Mei Mei in Boston. We visited the Mei Mei Street Kitchen before they had an actual space. We can’t wait to go back as the […]
Aesthetics of a Package
Last night we went to an informational meeting on food processing put on by the Franklin County CDC and the Business Growth Center at Springfield Technology Park. Informative and enjoyable, the lecture discussed the logistics of making small batch food. While there, some bottles were placed on the table in front of us. All of […]
Baghdad Bakery West Springfield, Massachusetts
A few weeks ago we were set up selling our oh so yummy small batch food products at The Alchemy Fair in Holyoke. To us, the best part of actually bringing our small batch selections out into the community and away from the vagueness of the internet, is meeting the people who buy them. We […]
Food Trucks Come to Springfield
My mother is ALWAYS (I mean always) cutting out articles from the local newspaper and sending them over to us in little plastic bags. We try to read them all… but sometimes they just accumulate. Yesterday she sent over a bag and I was glad I took the time to sort through it. If I […]