New Restaurants
| Name |
Address |
City |
Phone |
| Kathmandu Spice |
166 Mass. Ave. |
Arlington |
781-316-1755 |
| Miel |
510 Atlantic Ave. |
Boston |
617-217-5151 |
Coming Soon
Alta Strada
Boston has Via Matta ("Crazy Way"); now, in the next month or so, Wellesley will get Michael Schlow's Alta Strada ("High Road"), a similarly upscale Italian eatery in the former Figs space (92 Central St., Wellesley).
Pops
Former Bomboa chef Felino Samson lends his nickname to his debut venture, a New American eatery set to open before year's end in the space that recently contained Perdix (560 Tremont St.); under-$20 entrees will be a noble anomaly on the South End's chic Restaurant Row.
Sasso
Steak makes way for modern Italian as the folks behind Lucca replace Blackfin Chophouse with this spacious, upscale, soon-to-open ristorante in the Back Bay (116 Huntington Ave.).
Opening in March 2007, this sushi and tequila bar, located in the new InterContinental Boston on the waterfront (510 Atlantic Ave.), aims to entertain as well as feed its guests – the staff will also perform salsa numbers when the eatery morphs into a dance club after dinner.
Good Deals and Other News
Boston Gets the Big Guy
He's one of the most decorated chefs in Europe, and now Guy Martin of Paris' Le Grand Véfour is ready to conquer the States – beginning with Beantown. When the Regent Boston Hotel opens on Battery Wharf in the fall of 2007, it will boast an 80-seat vehicle for chef Martin, who plans an Eclectic menu of global influences.
Happy hour takes a hearty turn weekdays from 5–7 PM, when all pizzas go for half off.
If you're looking for a gift for the sweet tooth in your life, check out the desserterie chain's new Encore Card ($120). Valid at all three locations, the card entitles the bearer to one plated dessert of his or her choice each month for a year.
On display all month at this Hyannis nightspot is a whole village of gingerbread houses and buildings.
Legal Test Kitchen lends its initials to the Liquid Tuesday Klub, the cocktail-sampling series it's hosting weekly from 8 PM onward (no cover); while bartenders mix drink specials, DJs will do their part to keep guests hopping.
Chef-owner Philip Aviles welcomes Ryan Jaronik, recently of Chicago's Tru and Mas, into his kitchen as chef de cuisine; Jaronik has designed a new brunch menu from scratch, which now lists such items as a fried egg–topped burger with avocado and cheese and banana-stuffed Texas toast with dulce de leche syrup.
This Chestnut Hill steakhouse offers a trio of miniature pies – chocolate-pecan pie, streusel-topped custard-apple pie and Key-lime meringue pie topped with citrus gélee – all on one plate for $12 throughout the holiday season.
Get a taste of Paris every Sunday with a weekly changing, three-course prix fixe for $45.
Though brothers Robert and David Kinkead spar nightly with their two-sided menu, Monday at this South End eatery is officially "Fight Night," when sous-chefs Jake Smith and Simon Restrepo create their own three-course prix fixe menus ($35) for guests to weigh in on.