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anthonyaugustine · 4 years

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SEVEN SERIES ON STREAMING SERVICES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED

With winter approaching and the uncertainty of what is instore as Covid-19 ramps up again, you’ll be spending more time at home than you probably want to. Even though the streaming landscape is ultra-competitive, every service seems to be overloaded with content that slips by the company’s obvious promotion of certain series. While algorithms and past watching patterns populate most of the TV series and movies you see within the services interface, every company picks and highlights certain content for specific viewers along with broad cross-promotion of key titles that it has either produced or is exclusive to the service. All that means is way more good content slips by than you think. Just because a streaming service will shell out huge sums for series, that doesn’t guarantee they promote it the same way to everyone. Here are seven series on Amazon and Netflix you may have missed.

Read part one on ZeroZeroZero.

PART 2

The Looming Tower (Watch on Amazon - United States)

“Wherever you are, death will find you, even in the looming tower.”

OBL

Originally the 10 part series, The Looming Tower, based on Lawrence Wright's 2006 book of the same name, debuted on Hulu, a streaming service not available to Canadians. The Looming Tower traces the "rising threat of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda in the late 1990s and how the rivalry between the FBI and CIA during that time may have inadvertently set the path for the tragedy of 9/11." The series explores issues like the validity of ABC's apparent interview with the al-Qaeda leader in 1997 in a remote cave, which was a bizarre moment as OBL was alluding to the American government and the most powerful surveillance state for years at a time. A news station can set up a meeting but the FBI and CIA can't find him?

The motivation behind his call for jihad and the rich Saudi national's increasing anger at the western world and its interference with Islam become separated, both in history and our memory from the fact bin Laden had been a CIA asset in Afghanistan who was trained and supplied munitions and money by the Americans while the mujahadeen fought the Soviets in the '80s. Making his vengeance for the United States and the creation of al-Qaeda following the Russians leaving the country all the more complicated.

Wright's exhaustive research gave him a more detailed understanding of OBL thoughts and feelings in writings, bootleg audio recordings or other obscure background sources including footage showing the al-Qaeda leader recording a video, later found on a computer in Hamburg, about the on-coming jihad about to be unleashed on America. The series and Wright's book takes the phrase Bin Laden repeats during the speech which is taken from the fourth sura in the Quran.

The growing concern about radical Islamic fundamentalism seems obvious to most in the government who were zeroed in on chasing OBL but nailing down what that threat was would fall through the bureaucratic holes created by secrecy and infighting between the CIA, FBI and counterintelligence on the ground. Add that to the futility of fighting an ideology the has an almost unlimited supply of soldiers for the jihad, coming from nearly any background or country, but in this case, it just happened to be mostly Saudi nationals who seemingly slipped in and out of the country in the years leading up to the dreadful attack on the Twin Towers. The fact that the CIA was aware of two known al-Qaeda operatives in the US on legitimate visas was never shared with the FBI, with over 50 agents in the agency knew about the actionable intelligence that had been confirmed in Malaysia, where high-level members met to discuss the upcoming jihad in the USA.

If you want to take a further trip down the 9/11 rabbit hole, skip all the talk about disappearing planes, Boeing autopilot, missiles, thermite dust, giant holes in the ground with little plane wreckage or directed energy weapons, head to Ryan Dawson's diligently researched documentary, 9/11 and the War on Deception or the longer Empire Unmasked. The over gour-hour documentary focuses on those involved in financing, logistical planning and provides new evidence from public records requests from field offices in Florida showing reports of multiple middle eastern men taking pilot lessons leading up to the attack, knowledge of the movement of various hijackers, including leader Mohamed Atta and two other 9/11 hijackers, documentation that the Israeli government agents may have been tracking various cells across the United States, in fact moving some of them using a company as a front for Israeli intelligence.These are documents directly from whatever declassified info he can dig up, often getting reports back that are all but blacked out as classified. Despite this, Dawson has been able to put various pieces to the puzzle together because of the inconsistency of what has been withheld across multiple departments, years, agents and bureaucracies. It also draws connections between the war on Iraq and the war on terror and the implications of US troops in the middle east.

Dawson has crowdfunded an extensive, over four-hour documentary under the heading Empire Unmasked, well worth investing your time in both the documentary and podcast if you want an even more complete picture of what happened on that fateful day and during the time leading up to it.

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toojaysrestaurant · 4 years

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TooJay's Deli • Bakery • Restaurant Boca Raton, Florida

The original Post can be found at https://www.toojays.com/location/boca-raton-restaurant-glades-plaza/ TooJay’s Deli, Bakery, and Restaurant is located in Boca Raton, Florida at 2240 Northwest 19th Street, in Glades Plaza, west of I-95 at Glades Rd., and right across the street from Town Center at Boca Raton. The TooJay’s menu offers a wide variety of delicious options, from crafty shareable starters like Nova Latkes and TooJay’s Famous Knish to traditional deli favorites like the hot pastrami sandwich, turkey avocado sandwich, and the Reuben, to hot handhelds like the Avocado BLT, Open-Faced Tuna Melt and Deli Dogs. A selection of comfort classics, burgers, soups, salads, desserts, and more are also available. TooJay’s Deli in Boca Raton Glades Plaza is a great place to grab a bite to eat after a long workout at Orangetheory Fitness, picking up the kids from Kiddie Academy, getting your hair or nails done at A Suite Salon, or if you’re visiting from out of town and staying at the Renaissance Boca Raton Hotel or the Wyndham Boca Raton. TooJay’s also serves breakfast and popular brunch items like Mimosas, a variety of Eggs Benedict, skillets, and French toast.

TooJay’s also offers take-out and catering for your office or family event.You can consider us as the Best American Restaurant in Boca Raton, Florida.

TooJay’s award-winning menu has been acknowledged with the 2019 Best of Palm Beach County Award for Best Sandwich Shop and Best Dessert from The Palm Beach Post, the 2018 Best of the Menu Tracker for its Nova Latkes from Nation’s Restaurant News, the 2019 and 2018 Restaurant Neighbor Award as a State Winner from the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation for its work with Feeding Florida, and the 2019 and 2018 Dining Award for Best Deli from Orlando Magazine. Who’s Catering Your Next Event in Boca Raton?

For catering information in Boca Raton, please contact the Boca Raton stores.

Boca Raton Regency Court Plaza (561) 997-9911 Boca Raton Glades Plaza (561) 392-4181

Tel. (954) 854-5572 Email: [email protected]

Or contact our Corporate Catering Department at (561) 659-9011 ext. 563.

From receptions to office parties to meetings and seminars, TooJay’s Restaurant & Deli complements any occasion with delicious party platters that show your good taste. Every creation reflects TooJay’s famous attention to detail and presentation. Rely on your local Boca Raton TooJay’s for everything from gourmet platters to imaginative buffets and full service dinner parties. Our professional personnel are dedicated to providing the finest in food presentation and service so important to the success of any occasion. So make morning meetings matter more with fresh bagels, Danish and muffins from TooJay’s sensational bakery. Or select a meat, sandwich or wrap platter to make that office luncheon more memorable. Doing dinner? Set the pace with a hot entrée buffet sure to please even the pickiest member of the group. For immediate catering needs please contact the nearest restaurant location directly. TooJay's Deli • Bakery • Restaurant 2240 Northwest 19th Street, Boca Raton, FL 33431 561-392-4181 https://www.pinterest.com/toojaysrestaurant/ Direction:

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spellucci · 5 years

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Louisville and Lafayette

Friday, August 9, 2019

It dawned as clear and warm today as it was overcast and cool yesterday. WeatherBug says it's going to be a hot one. Spoiler alert: it is.

Friends Lee and Deb are in town from Florida for the start of a 10-day trip from Colorado to New Mexico. I (Tim) make plans to meet them for coffee in Louisville (lew-iss-vil, not lew-ee-vil).

This is the same town where Amber got her nails trimmed. The groomer had recommended "de-shedding" to remove her undercoat, so I dropped her off for a little doggie spa treatment, in hopes that losing her extra fur would help make her more comfortable in the heat. Spoiler alert: it did.

Then delicious coffee with Lee and Deb followed by a trip to a yarn store that Deb wanted to visit for her weaving. When we walked in a sales lady met Lee and me with the greeting, "Points for you for just coming in the store with her. We call men like you a Keeper." The place was huge, basically two storefronts at a strip mall combined into one shop with shelves of yarn in every glorious color imaginable stretching up as high as you could reach. Lee and I found a couch and solved the problems of the world while Deb shopped.

Back outside, the beauty of the Flatirons beckons. Geology lesson for the day: when a stream from a canyon empties onto a plain, it carries gravel, sand and silt out onto the plain and deposits it in a triangular shape called an alluvial fan. The Flatirons are a series of alluvial fans which were covered with enough sediment to have compressed them into conglomerate rock. Mountain building lifted and tilted the whole schmegegge, and the sandstone was eroded away to give the Flatirons their present form. Glenn and Jeanne's RV, Wolnosc (Polish for freedom) is decorated with a silhouette of the Flatirons on each side.

I say goodbye to Lee and Deb, pick up a svelte Amber, and head back to Lafayette to help Jeanne set up for the evening's street fair. Several times a year, Lafayette shuts down its main street to hold a fair, one block of which is food trucks, and another of which is artists and craftspeople displaying the fruits of their labor. Here is a lousy shot of Jeanne's pottery booth.

A standout creation is the butt-her dish, a butter dish where the cover is a woman lying nude face down.

The French food truck offers apparently authentic French dishes like Escargot and Croque Madame (based on a ham sandwich, but oh, so much more). I order the latter. Glenn had said the flavors were good on this truck. Spoiler alert: they are.

I call my Jeanne to hear about the services for Donovan. What a good thing she and the boys did by going and supporting a family in their time of need. Jeanne is taking a 6am flight from BOS to DEN which gets in before 9am MDT. I can't wait to see her in the morning.

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anachef · 6 years

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Miami Grill & Bar Officially Opens at ONE DAYTONA

Industry-Leading Fast Casual Chain Introduces First Upscale Bar Concept in Newest Daytona Beach Location

Boca Raton, FL (RestaurantNews.com) Miami Grill® – the trailblazing, fast-casual restaurant group known for its fresh, modern approach to South Florida’s flavorful fare – has opened the doors of its first Miami Grill® & Bar restaurant concept in a 4,048 square foot space at ONE DAYTONA, the Daytona Beach area’s energetic retail, dining and entertainment destination.

Located at 260 Daytona Blvd, this is the first official Miami Grill® & Bar to open as well as the first time the restaurant group will be offering guests this hybrid restaurant concept, in which both Miami Grill® and sister brand, Salad Creations, will operate in the same restaurant space. This will allow guests to enjoy iconic offerings from both brands including the premium ingredients and build-your-own salad options found at Salad Creations, plus the Everything Goes® menu, sleek South Beach style, and best-in-class customer service that guests have come to expect from a Miami Grill® restaurant. Designed to provide a more sophisticated experience, the new Miami Grill® & Bar location at ONE DAYTONA boasts a curated list of signature cocktails, enhanced menu of appetizers, and a vibrant look designed to tastefully reflect the energy of Daytona Beach and the influence of South Beach.

“We’re excited to enter the Daytona Beach market,” says Miami Grill® CEO Richard Chwatt, “ONE DAYTONA is an ideal venue for expanding our brand in Florida, and another positive step in our overall success.”

“Miami Grill® & Bar is a great addition to the unique line-up of shops and restaurants we have here at ONE DAYTONA,” said Roxanne Ribakoff, ONE DAYTONA General Manager. “Their diverse menu and fun, casual atmosphere allows us to expand the variety of dining options for our guests.”

Fueled by an extensive brand expansion, the ONE DAYTONA location of Miami Grill® & Bar features the latest industry innovations and restaurant technology including mobile delivery services; UberEats, Postmates, and Bite Squad, as well as self-ordering kiosks. “This new iteration of the Miami Grill® concept is anchored by our commitment to evolve as a brand and to continue delivering best-in-class dining experiences for our guests,” explained Jonathan H. Vogel, Miami Grill® Chief Operating Officer. “We are thrilled to have the opportunity to do so right here in Daytona Beach.”

About Miami Grill

South-Florida based Miami Grill is the hottest fast casual concept to hit the market, developed by the same owners as Miami Subs, Miami Subs Capital Partners 1, Inc. and key equity partner, Pitbull, Armando Christian Perez. Miami Grill and its “Everything Goes” concept embody the taste and sensations of South Beach and provide a diverse menu unlike any other chain in the category. For franchising and other information, visit www.miamigrillfranchise.com.

About ONE DAYTONA

ONE DAYTONA features a 300,000 square-foot retail, dining and entertainment district, along with two Marriott hotels and luxury apartments coming soon. Visitors, race fans, and residents recognize ONE DAYTONA as the place to live, work, stay and play in the Daytona Beach area. Tenants include Bass Pro Shops Outpost, Ben & Jerry’s, BUILT Custom Burgers, Clair de Lune, Cobb Daytona Luxury Theatres, Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott, GameTime, Guitar Center, Hy’s Toggery, IT’SUGAR, Jeremiah’s Italian Ice, Juetta West, Kasa Living, Kilwins, MidiCi The Italian Kitchen, P.F. Chang’s, Pink Narcissus, a Lilly Pulitzer Signature Store, Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery, Sprint and Venetian Nail Spa. The destination features a comprehensive Public Art program with installations throughout the development including the Jantzen Diving Girl in Victory Circle. For more information and the latest updates, visit OneDaytona.com, follow us on Facebook (OneDaytona), Instagram (@onedaytona) or Twitter (@ONEDAYTONA).

Media Contact: Kayla Bolyai [email protected]

source http://www.restaurantnews.com/miami-grill-bar-officially-opens-at-one-daytona-031219/

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dorothydelgadillo · 7 years

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Are Tech Skills a Safe Bet in 2018?

If you’re looking at options for escaping a job you hate, a career you’ve outgrown, or an industry that’s losing its relevance, you might notice that learning tech skills is a beacon of light against an otherwise dreary, uninspiring landscape.

The amount of training you’ll need in order to break into tech can literally be completed in a matter of months, and it can all be done from your own home (or favorite cafe, or local library, or co-working space, or anywhere else where you can access the Internet). That’s a far cry from spending years going to back to school for a conventional degree or certification, and trying to cram in-person classes into the rest of your busy schedule—a prospect that’s liable to make you depressed just thinking about it.

But regardless of how convenient it is to learn tech skills and the potential rewards in terms of salary and flexibility once you’ve learned them, it’s still going to be an investment. Sure, it’s not as daunting timewise as going back to a physical school for a multi-year degree (or anywhere near as expensive), but it will require your valuable time and money, so it’s only natural to wonder—is it really worth it?

Tech is a relatively new industry and one that’s constantly changing—will the jobs you’ll be training for now even exist tomorrow? Or is this whole tech thing just a blip on the radar?

The Numbers Don’t Lie

Data directly from the Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts that tech will continue to be an employment juggernaut, well into the next decade. In listing occupations with the most job growth between now and 2026, the BLS has software/application developers slotted fifth (with a 24% growth projection) behind personal care aides, food service workers, registered nurses, and home health aides.

That’s even more impressive when you look at where the 2016 median annual wage stacks up for developers. At $100,080, median developer salaries are the highest of those top five growth jobs (followed by registered nurses at $68,450), and only one job on the list of 30 occupations beats developers’ median salaries (financial managers at $121,750). Now those are some numbers I can really get behind!

Ground Reports Are Positive

While crunching the numbers is an important part of any decision to invest, it’s also vital to talk to the people on the ground. What do real life tech employers and professionals see when it comes to job growth?

Ryan Sylvia, Managing Director at LABUR LLC, has a big picture perspective on the issue, based not only on projections for the future, but also from past experience. Sylvia’s company LABUR got its start right in the middle of the 2007-2008 recession, and so—Sylvia says—while their company continues to witness job growth today, first hand, they’ve also seen how durable an industry tech can be during bleak economic times.

“We had to make a steep climb to get out of some pretty harsh unemployment rates,” Sylvia says, “but even when the demand in other industries and for other skill sets is down, there’s still a need for people with tech skills in companies that are optimizing their technologies.”

Sylvia’s experience confirms what the BLS has to say on tech job growth. Technology has long since stopped being specific to tech companies, and since every company from mom and pop businesses, to multinational corporations, to public agencies and institutions have online presences and technology needs, opportunities for tech professionals are ubiquitous throughout the workforce.

The BLS cites an increase in digital healthcare platforms, a growing number of consumer products that rely on computer and software systems, and an ongoing demand for computer security software, as examples of consistently increasing growth opportunities that are embedded into business needs—regardless of overall economic upticks or downturns. Tech truly is every industry!

Dasha Moore, Chief Operating Officer and Founder at Solodev, has also seen job growth consistent with the BLS forecast. Moore is in charge of hiring web developers for her company, and she doesn’t see these jobs drying up any time soon. While Moore says she often hears concerns about future web and software development jobs being outsourced, her own experience with hiring trends suggests this simply isn’t true.

“Here in Central Florida,” Moore says, “we’re seeing an explosion of new tech startups and major investments being made in our area. This is a great sign for our whole economy now and in the future.”

But for Moore, tech job growth isn’t just a matter of multiplying existing jobs—as tech and its business applications continue to evolve, new opportunities arise and bring even more jobs to the market. Moore identities MarTech (marketing technology—the blending of traditional marketing with emerging technologies) as an example of a growth sector that will create more jobs in the coming years, providing further job security and employment opportunities for people with tech skills.

“MarTech is expanding beyond websites, content creation, and paid media management, and increasingly moving toward digital experience personalization,” Moore says. This growing trend of providing finely-tuned marketing experiences based on individual consumers’ interests is dependent on people who can apply the data technologies that make it possible, pointing to even more tech and tech-adjacent jobs on the horizon.

Future-Proofing is Possible

With all these projections about the future job market, you might be wondering if the tech skills you learn today will still be relevant a few years from now. Does continuous growth and evolution mean you’ll be left out in the cold if you don’t predict the exact right skills to specialize in?

The trick, Sylvia says, is to look at learning tech skills as a continuum rather than a discrete event—start with a basic foundation to open the door (for instance programming languages like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript), but be ready to learn more skills as your career unfolds, technology changes, and new opportunities emerge.

“Nothing is more important in the field than staying up to date,” Sylvia says. “The best tech professionals are the ones who have a core skill set, but who are always getting more certifications or taking classes to learn the new stuff, too.” And remember—continuing to learn doesn’t have to involve reinventing the wheel each time. Once you’ve gotten a handle on a few programming languages, nailed down basic design fundamentals, and mastered some key software suites, you’ll have your tech legs under you, which means learning more skills is only a matter of adding additional nuances to the solid foundation you’ve already built.

Moore adds that—in addition to a passion for technology and an understanding of programming languages—leadership, effective communication, and strong analytical skills are all key qualities that add to a “future proof” hiring package.

“Proven capabilities and development in soft skills show a hiring manager or a company leader that you can be entrusted with more responsibilities beyond just coding,” Moore says. Meanwhile, analytical skills remain crucial to getting hired, since executives like Moore “need people who can tell them what the machines can’t.”

Your ability to not only use technology but to analyze the data it yields, will go a long way in keeping your tech skills relevant, making sure you’re equipped to ride the wave of tech job growth.

It’s clear—when it comes to the tech job market, growth isn’t just happening, it’s going to keep happening. Which means that if you’re ready for a meaningful career change, now’s the time to start building your own foundational tech skills and putting yourself into position to become a lifelong technology learner.

The bets are in, and smart money’s on tech jobs in 2018…and beyond!

from Web Developers World https://skillcrush.com/2017/12/19/are-tech-skills-a-safe-bet-in-2018/

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tonyduncanbb73 · 7 years

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Boston’s Eater Awards Winners 2017

The restaurants, chefs, and taprooms that made the city run wild this year

Today, we are pleased to announce the winners of the eighth annual Eater Awards, celebrating the chefs and restaurants that made the largest impact on all 24 Eater cities over the past twelve months.

As noted throughout the voting period last week, awards are being given out in five categories, and each category features an editor’s choice winner and a readers’ choice winner. Editor’s choice winners will be receiving a traditional Eater tomato can trophy and a feature story in the coming year, and readers’ choice winners get plenty of bragging rights. Nominees were picked by Eater staff from among all restaurants that opened since last year’s awards, and in line with Eater Boston’s standard geographic coverage radius, this year’s nominees come from Boston proper and a little bit beyond.

Here now are the establishments — from a cozy French-Canadian spot (yes, it has poutine) to a lobster roll destination, from a brewery with an embedded coffee shop to a swanky Fort Point Mexican restaurant — that have taken the Boston food world by storm this year.

Restaurant of the Year

Café du Pays 233 Cardinal Medeiros Ave., Kendall Square, Cambridge

Rachel Leah Blumenthal for Eater

Duck at Café du Pays

Boston’s got plenty of poutine — or dishes that masquerade as poutine, anyway — but until the middle of 2017, you’d have to travel up north to get more of a taste of French-Canadian cuisine. The seven-person ownership team behind Café du Pays is no stranger to success; the same folks are also behind the habitually crowded State Park and Mamaleh’s a short walk away. Plus, they were also behind the acclaimed Hungry Mother, the previous occupant of the quirky house in which Café du Pays now resides. For this newest project, they’ve brought on Dan Amighi (La Brasa, Little Big Diner) as chef.

If you like that talented group of people; if you’ve been hankering for a taste of Québec right here in Cambridge, with a touch of New England; if the idea of deer frites excites you more than steak frites or you want to drop some serious cash on whole roasted foie gras — Café du Pays is a no-brainer. And especially with winter coming, the restaurant’s hearty meats, irresistible house-made sourdough, and maple-tinged desserts and drinks will be the perfect antidote to the cold weather.

Restaurant of the Year Readers’ Choice Winner

Moona 243 Hampshire St., Inman Square, Cambridge

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Chicken bastilla at Moona

Readers threw their votes behind Moona, an intimate Inman Square restaurant that serves Eastern Mediterranean cuisine in a format geared towards sharing. The name is a slang form of an Arabic word for “storing,” referring to stocking up and preserving foods during the harvest season to prepare for winter. As such, foods like olives, pickles, and preserved lemons are featured.

Located in the longtime Rosie’s Bakery space that more recently briefly housed Playska, Moona only seats about 30 but packs a lot of flavor and personality into the small space. Oh, and Moona has a version of poutine too.

Additional Restaurant of the Year Nominees

Frenchie, Pagu, Pammy’s

Chef of the Year

Mary Dumont of Cultivar 1 Court St., Downtown Boston

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Mary Dumont, chef-owner of Cultivar

Prior to the opening of Cultivar, Mary Dumont was probably best-known by Bostonians thanks to her nearly decade-long stint as executive chef at Harvard Square’s classic Harvest restaurant. But before that, she built up an extensive and impressive resume around the country, from Jardinière in San Francisco to Blackbird in Chicago. And along the way, she’s snapped up plenty of awards and television appearances.

So it’s at long last that Dumont has opened her own restaurant, and it’s already hitting its stride in its first year. It’s a beautiful space full of beautiful plates of truly local, seasonal food, an expression of new New England cuisine that runs the gamut from lobster rolls to whole roasted chickens for two, snail toast to nettle bucatini with lamb neck sugo. Dumont’s years of experience on the West and East Coasts really shine here, and she’s assembled an expert team to help, too (don’t miss executive pastry chef Robert Gonzalez’s impeccable desserts.)

Chef of the Year Readers’ Choice Winner

Readers also voted for Mary Dumont as Chef of the Year.

Additional Chef of the Year Nominees

Andrew Brady of Field & Vine, Chris Chung of Momi Nonmi, Douglas Rodrigues of North Square Oyster, Douglass Williams of Mida

Design of the Year

Lolita Cocina & Tequila Bar 253 Summer St., Fort Point, Boston

Rachel Leah Blumenthal for Eater

Lolita Cocina & Tequila Bar’s new Fort Point location

COJE Management Group — the team behind Yvonne’s, Ruka, and now two Lolita locations — really excels at creating a special ambiance. The group’s restaurants tend toward a dark, sexy, see-and-be-seen vibe, and the newest Lolita in Fort Point is no exception. It’s a long space that meanders through several different rooms of vibrant murals, eye-catching red chandeliers, statement furniture, and vivid stained glass, not to mention a striking array of skulls above one semi-private table. Nestle in with a frozen margarita (aka “frolita”), some octopus ceviche, and some seared shrimp Oaxaca, and be sure to save a bit of room for the giant portion of cotton candy that arrives with the check.

COJE’s own Project Services Group fully designed the space, and Boston-based Bergmeyer was the architect of record for the project. Lolita’s murals were created by Julia Purinton of Burlington, Vermont (who also worked on Ruka), and Danny Fila of Miami, Florida.

Design of the Year Readers’ Choice Winner

Terra at Eataly Boston 800 Boylston St., Back Bay, Boston

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Terra at Eataly Boston

Readers voted for Terra, the third-floor greenhouse respite from the hustle and bustle of Eataly’s main floors, for Design of the Year. Eataly USA’s Project Manager-Design, Bailey Kelliher, headed up the design of Eataly Boston’s Terra, aiming to draw particular focus to the restaurant’s grill — the centerpiece of Terra’s concept — by placing it near the entrance and giving its hood a unique, eye-catching shape. Kelliher and team wanted to play up the greenhouse feel — more specifically, an Italian greenhouse feel — by using plenty of simple raw materials and featuring antique garden objects and artwork from Italy.

Also involved in the creation of Terra: Studios Architecture designed the shell of the space, Boston-based general contractor firm Consigli worked on the buildout, an Italian company Costagroup provided furniture and Italian objects, Boston-based Edesign assisted with signage and more, and Boston-based Foliaire provided the greenery.

Additional Design of the Year Nominees

Publico Street Bistro & Garden, Roxy’s/A4cade, Les Sablons

Fast-Casual Restaurant of the Year

Eventide Fenway 1321 Boylston St., Fenway, Boston

Sarah Storrer for Eater

Fried chicken katsu sandwich at Eventide Fenway

From the moment that Portland, Maine’s Eventide Oyster Co. team announced that it would open a sister restaurant in Boston, the hype grew to deafening levels. Many Bostonians had already experienced Eventide’s acclaimed brown butter lobster roll and couldn’t wait to eat it closer to home. The team was quick to explain that Eventide Fenway would be a different concept than its northern full-service sibling — more of a fast-casual concept, but with servers making the rounds to place extra drink orders and such throughout the meal. “Continued service,” if you will. But yes, there would be lobster rolls and other Eventide classics.

So the restaurant has a lot to live up to, and in its first couple of months, things are looking good. Go all out with bubbles and oysters and crudo, or keep things low-key with a lobster roll and some soft serve. Or anything in between. Eventide takes fast-casual to a new level — something sorely needed in a year when nearly every opening was yet another fast-casual chain from out of town.

Fast-Casual Restaurant of the Year Readers’ Choice Winner

Bess’s Cafe 224 Cypress St., Brookline

Rachel Leah Blumenthal for Eater

Scallion pancake wrap at Bess’s Cafe

The readers’ choice honor goes to a true hidden gem in Brookline, Bess’s Cafe, a charming and casual 14-seat Chinese restaurant that specializes in Jiang Nan-style noodles and more.

While the noodles are a must (try the dan dan noodles), don’t miss the scallion pancake wraps, which come stuffed with beef or crispy chicken, or the dumplings, particularly the pork and chive.

Additional Fast-Casual Restaurant of the Year Nominees

Manoa Poke Shop, Ruckus, Yume Ga Arukara

Taproom or Tasting Room of the Year

Lamplighter Brewing Co. 284 Broadway, Cambridge

Rachel Leah Blumenthal for Eater

Lamplighter Brewing Co.

What makes a taproom successful? The beer’s gotta be great, sure, but it’s about the atmosphere as well. Do you want to hang out there for hours? Are there games to play and food to eat? Fun events, like trivia nights and pop-ups? One of 2017’s many new breweries (well, late 2016), Lamplighter Brewing Co., nails it on all counts. First things first, yes, the beer is good. The team expressed a particular interest in Brett IPAs when opening, but the current roster dabbles in a wide variety of styles. Get your hands on the Stranger Things-inspired dark saison, The Upsidedown, or the maple syrup and vanilla imperial stout, After Midnight, to warm up on these chilly days. (Need more warmth? Lamplighter sells the coziest hoodie imaginable.)

Another smart move by Lamplighter was opening with a cafe embedded inside. The independently owned Longfellows cafe fills the Lamplighter taproom with coffee, pastries, and more until 3 p.m. daily, and Lamplighter continues serving Longfellows’ cold brew, nitro cold brew, and house-made sodas through the evening. Time your wifi-ing right, and you can get work done will enjoying caffeine and booze.

Taproom or Tasting Room of the Year Readers’ Choice Winner

Bully Boy Distillers 50 Cedric St., Roxbury

Jason Zucco for Bully Boy

Bully Boy Distillers

Readers voted to bestow the readers’ choice award upon Bully Boy Distillers, which expanded into a new space this year, one that includes a 26-seat tasting room and cocktail bar looking into the 8,000-square-foot distillery.

The snug bar serves up “still-to-glass” cocktails that feature house-made tinctures, juices, and, of course, Bully Boy’s spirits (and be sure to keep an eye out for new products that aren’t yet available outside of the distillery.) There are rotating draft cocktails (such as candy apple rum punch or gin lime rickeys) and rotating barrel-aged cocktails available, as well as cocktail flights. Try the dessert flight, for example, featuring drinks such as the Truffle Shuffle, which takes Bully Boy’s Boston Rum and fat-washes it with Teddie’s Peanut Butter, combining that with muscovado syrup, house chocolate bitters, and peanut butter coffee.

Additional Taproom or Tasting Room of the Year Nominees

Castle Island Brewing, Down the Road Beer Co., Springdale Barrel Room

Congratulations to all of the 2017 winners and nominees, and thank you to the readers who took the time to vote for the readers’ choice awards. Stay tuned for more year-end coverage as 2017 draws to a close, and be sure to email us if there are any exciting 2018 openings coming up that should be on our radar.

Disclosure: Eater Boston contributor Alex Wilking is also employed by Lamplighter. He did not play a role in the creation of this piece or in the choosing of nominees and winners for the Eater Awards.

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Hyperallergic: The Unbridgeable Chasm Between the Bronx and the Police

John Fekner, “Falsas Promesas/Broken Promises Charlotte Street Stencils South Bronx, NY” (1980) (© the artist)

Editor’s note: This piece was written in response to an article Hyperallergic published by Seph Rodney on March 7, 2017, about Shaun Leonardo’s performance at the Laundromat Project and an ensuing panel discussion with three Bronx community organizers.

The Bronx faces many obstacles. This is not a new phenomenon. It has been on this trajectory since Robert Moses plowed through its center to build the Cross Bronx Expressway, creating a direct route for the Manhattan businessman to commute home to his suburb in Westchester and invoking a mass exodus of white Bronxites not too keen on living next to the Black and Puerto Rican people moving in from neighboring Harlem. The people who remained in the Bronx withstood the many plagues that followed, while city and state agencies, acting on New York senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s philosophy of “benign neglect,” instituted planned shrinkage, essentially withdrawing city services such as sanitation, street repair, and firehouses. They’re the fires that the Bronx continues to be known for, and the phoenix that was born from its ashes, Hip-Hop. Yet the people of the Bronx have endured. We are still here, generations later. We are still facing obstacles as they mutate and manifest anew. We are still living. Today, the hallmarks of these obstacles continue to be housing, neglect from the city, and policing.

The landlords who burned this borough down, and retired in Florida with the insurance money, were never sought after, never indicted, or held responsible. Landlords continue to operate with impunity as countless people in the Bronx continue to live with mold growing on their walls, rat infestations, and broken boilers. Pass by 161st Street on any given day, and you will see the line at housing court wrap around the block. Evictions in the Bronx are a daily occurrence. Securing housing and keeping it has become increasingly more difficult for New Yorkers in general, so one might imagine that families in the Bronx — the poorest congressional district of the United States — are paying the highest price. With the massive influx of families displaced from Brooklyn, the problem deepens.

Impending gentrification now has these landlords frothing at the mouth, as they see big profits coming their way and they have rushed to repair intercoms, replace windows, and evict families that have dealt with them for decades. The city does not fall behind in these implications, as it continues to hand over warehoused property to the private sector. The biggest slumlord in the city continues to be the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) who has neglected the housing projects of this city deliberately almost to the point of no return. But that hasn’t stopped the Mayor from trying to privatize these units since they happen to sit on some of the best land in the city. Bill de Blasio’s administration has been a friend to developers, and he has cleared the way for them to build new iterations of Williamsburg and Bushwick, coaxing artists and college students further into the outer boroughs who inadvertently end up displacing the people of this city.

In the Bronx, that looks like a new police station for the 40th precinct designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group. That the city and landlords are appeasing police is not a coincidence or a new tactic. They have been employing police as guard dogs to keep the poor and working class people of this city in line since their creation. The 40th precinct, notorious for their violent behavior towards the residents of Port Morris and the Mott Haven section of the Bronx, is being courted in a such a way makes sense, since they will be the precinct to assist the new 25-story luxury towers built by Keith Rubenstein who infamously tried to rename that area of the Bronx “The Piano District” and was heavily protested. This is a slap in the face to the people of that community who have been in need of resources for decades and for the residence of Mott Haven Houses, whose apartments are falling apart. But the city has 50 million dollars to build a shiny new state-of-the-art police precinct?

No one in the Bronx is surprised. For the most part, the police and the people of the Bronx have never been friends. There are few people who have not been abused by police in the Bronx including the writer of this piece. The police have always been an occupying army. On our streets. In our schools. In our building hallways. They have always been inept or unwilling to help when relied upon and have always treated the people of the Bronx with hostility and contempt. There is a deep history of police abuse in the Bronx. It’s the reason why Larry Davis is a folk hero in the Bronx. In 1986, Davis shot six police officers from the 44th precinct, who raided his sister’s apartment in an attempt to kill him and escaped. There was a 19-day man hunt for Davis who turned himself in to the FBI and blew the whistle on cop drug dealers, who forced kids in the neighborhood to sell for them under threat of arrest or death. Davis, 22 at the time, was acquitted of all charges related to the shooting of those officers by a jury of Bronxites, and was represented by the late Lynne F. Stewart and William M. Kunstler. Today, it’s the reason why teenagers yell “Fuck the Police” in my neighborhood where a block away Kalief Browder grew up and killed himself.

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— Crystal Johnson (@Crystal1Johnson) October 26, 2016

It was with this history in mind that when confronted with Shaun Leonardo’s question on the evening of his performance at the Laundromat Project, “Is there a possibility for this community and police to restore a relationship?” The answer was a unequivocal NO.

On February 25, Shaun Leonardo was invited to the Bronx on behalf of the Laundromat Project to conduct his performance “I Can’t Breathe.” This performance was to be followed by a panel discussion with local grassroots activists working in the community. Invited to speak on this panel was myself, as in addition to my art practice, I am also a community activist, organizing with a group called Take Back the Bronx/the Bronx Social Center. Also invited to this panel was Shannon Jones of Why Accountability and Omar Arponare of People Power Movement.

Take Back the Bronx has been working in the Bronx against police brutality, community violence, slum housing, worker exploitation, and for community power and control since 2011. In 2015 we launched the Bronx Social Center, a volunteer-run space free from the entanglements of nonprofit funding, in the basement of a building in the South Bronx. The space runs art workshops, martial arts classes, and political education classes for teens. The space has a library and we offer homework help and do movie nights for folks in the community to build together.

Why Accountability is a Black, female-led grassroots community organization committed to the fight against police brutality and racial injustice since the chokehold death of Eric Garner. Since the video release, Why Accountability has been successful in disrupting the NYPD safe space that is the precinct community council meeting. Members of the organization have attended over 40 precinct community meetings throughout the Bronx addressing the lack of balance between community input and police statistical reporting and other propaganda. Why Accountability is also responsible for the widely known and loved #swipeitforward campaign, where participants descend on a busy subway station in neighborhoods across the city and swipe people into the subway with MetroCards, highlighting the predatory police practice of criminalizing poverty.

People Power Movement (PPM) is a youth-led organization that describes itself as “dedicated to educating, agitating, and organizing for Popular Control of our schools, workplaces, housing, transportation, policing, levels of government, and all areas that affect our lives, to achieve Fundamental Social Change.” PPM was instrumental in reinvigorating the fight against the Kingsbridge Armory deal in the Bronx and taking on the Jerome Avenue rezoning fight.

When Leonardo posed this question about “restoring relationships” with police, he directed it to the audience first. The feedback was sporadic and of the few people that did respond, they expressed no desire to work with police. There was one dissenting voice that evening. That was the voice of Hyperallergic staff writer Seph Rodney, who proposed a model from the UK, which would essentially amount to the CCRB (Civilian Complaint Review Board) and is widely known to be corrupt and inept.

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It is at this moment that Shannon Jones of Why Accountability interjected with the statement, “This question is rooted in a fallacy, it presumes there was ever a relationship to restore.” Below is a direct quote from Hyperallergic staff writer Seph Rodney’s piece regarding the evening in question.

… when Leonardo posed a question soliciting suggestions on what might reconfigure or restore trust between police and the communities represented by the panel, Jones loudly denounced the question as invalid. Here her speech ironically reminded me of the kinds of polemics spouted at rallies by supporters of the current President: a shallow grasp of US history, insistence on conformity to a certain linguistic orthodoxy, the rejection of any information that is not relayed through personally known sources, a suspicion of institutions (like the press) and all knowledge they circulate, a valorizing of overblown rhetoric, and contempt for views that don’t comport with their own. The panelists seemed ill equipped to reach others beyond the circles in which they already were active, and so imagined survival as rooted in shutting everyone else out.

Rodney takes great care to describe the tenderness that Leonardo’s performance uses to teach us all these self-defense techniques. I wish he would have used this great care when it came to listening and conveying the incredible amount of work Why Accountability, Take Back the Bronx, Bronx Social Center, and People Power Movement do in the Bronx, which was spoken about at great length that evening. That he could be so flippant and generic with this portion of his writing is sad. He wasn’t listening.

The many questions posed to myself and the panelists representing these groups regarding “strategies and approach” was of course going to include honest discussions about the interconnectedness of issues affecting our community and how overwhelming of a task it is when organizing. One is never just fighting police violence, but also landlords and NYCHA, and the city, etc. There are many nuances to incite a people to rise up, which was the initial question we began with that evening. “How do we get the community to say enough and stand and fight?” It’s a question that plagues the mind of every community organizer.

Given these complexities, that he chose to portray our work as unfocused was irresponsible. Jones, Arponare, and myself reiterated constantly the importance of members of our communities to see “exhibitions of resistance” in their own neighborhoods — a sentiment all three organizations on the panel share. We spoke about the importance of implicating each member of the community and the cross-generational fight to gain collective power, and taking ownership of their communities as being essential. Shannon shared at length about her experience with the fights she had with the Department of Education, demanding to keep her son out of the clutches of the school-to-prison pipeline when he was a teenager. I spoke about the Bronx 120 case, how 120 young men were removed from their communities overnight by a joint task force of ATF, ICE, HLS, and NYPD on conspiracy charges, and how the parents of these boys now face eviction from NYCHA. That the author did not retain any of this information, or didn’t care to speak to these very specific conversations is alarming.

That Rodney could bring himself to compare Jones or the activists present that evening to Trump protesters for rejecting this question about “restoring” relationships between the people of the Bronx and police is beyond disrespectful. Rodney refers to Shannon as “loud.” He paints the panelists as ignorant, not rigorous and not intellectual. He accuses the community organizers of “linguistic orthodoxy,” and works very hard using pompous flowery language to reduce Jones, myself, and Arponare down to conspiracy theorists. It is he, who again simplifies who we are and by extension how we communicate to an “orthodoxy.”

The insults he hurls at Jones, and the rest of the panelists are elitist. He belittles our individual and collective analysis with the accusation that we base our ideas only on, as he says, “personally known sources.” As if we learned about redlining, rezoning, and school-to-prison pipeline on the street — and to a degree we absolutely did! This knowledge is just as much experiential as it is academic. Sadly, he couldn’t imagine that the comrades whom we organize with, also happen to be urban planners, housing lawyers, social workers, teachers, and PhD candidates for a range of subjects from Human Geography, Political Science, to Sociology, Critical Theory in the Arts, and Psychology. Perhaps Rodney doesn’t expect much from this riff raff. These assertive Black, Puerto Rican, and Indigenous people from the Bronx, who are just loud and vulgar and uninformed. Rodney perpetrates the worst stereotypes about the people on the front lines in the Bronx. He displays the kind of elitist behavior we have seen many times in the Bronx. Because Rodney is a black man, it is less easy to discern. But his blackness does not exempt him from being held accountable for the poor behavior he exemplifies in his report back from the Bronx and his encounters with the natives. Rodney repeatedly refers to his experience that evening regarding Leonardo’s performance as a brotherhood, erasing the women present in the room sharing in that experience, and the women who coordinated the performance. Was it that a woman boldly challenged him in a room where we was experiencing such brotherhood that provoked this ugly misogynistic adjective reserved for black women, “loud?”

Rodney is incorrect to say that the panelists don’t entertain other people’s views. Had he cared to inquire, he would have found vast ideological differences between the panelists themselves. However, what we all agree on is that we don’t want anything to do with the police. Who in their right mind, given the violence and predatory behavior they inflict in our communities, would argue otherwise, unless of course they had “a shallow grasp of US history”? It is Rodney who possesses this “shallow grasp.” He glosses over the violence perpetrated against black people in the US and suggests that we, the activists on that panel, are at some fault for not envisioning a pathway to restoring a relationship that has never existed with the police. In this sense, his remarks invoke rhetoric that seeks to place the blame on poor black people for their conditions who must pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Rodney insensitively describes a scenario where police and citizens might “restore” a nonexistent relationship on the historic grounds of some of the worst police and state violence this city has ever seen. He ignores the echoes of that history present in the place where he was sitting that evening and in the bodies of the people of that community. It cannot be reemphasized enough that police in the Bronx, as in many major cities across this country, are an occupying army. They mediate our encounters with everything. How we travel, where we learn, where we live, etc. In essence, this answers Leonardo’s initial question, “How do we incite the community to take control and stand up?” When we remove ourselves from the psychological chokehold of the state, constricted by the blue mafia. Rodney disagreed with the position of the panelists and chose to launch a personal attack via his platform on Hyperallergic to discredit the activists who fight every day in this borough.

That he is so dismissive of the issues we point to by referring to them as “overblown rhetoric” is a slap in the face. One wonders what he sees as “overblown rhetoric.” Is it police violence? The upsurge in deportation? The landmines of speculation, rezoning, and real estate development popping up across the borough? Or is it the school-to-prison pipeline sending our kids to jail, younger and younger each year? Unwillingness to work with police seemed to be the point of contention that evening for him. The language he uses is forceful, reactionary, and meant to draw blood. Again he trivializes the most acute matters facing our communities in the Bronx. He’s dismissive. This goes past ideological differences between the author and the panelists. He has a disdain for what he calls our “rhetoric.” As a journalist, he of course has the right to report what he sees to the public and one expects him to do so. But what has been written in this article is not journalism. This is ego. This is an abuse of power. That he has ideological disagreements with the panelists is not an excuse to belittle the work we do in the Bronx, nor to insult Shannon Jones the way he did.

Lastly, Rodney states that we were “ill equipped to reach others outside our circles.” It’s incredible that he could make such a statement, as if he has spent any time pounding the pavement with any of the groups on the panel. He has no idea what relationships we have in our neighborhoods or how we communicate with people across the city to build coalitions. It’s worth noting that the room that day was not reflective of the community of the Bronx, sadly. In fact, the room was mainly full of artist and art school kids who trekked it from Brooklyn to see Leonardo’s performance. This was not the goal of the Laundromat project, as is my understanding. This was supposed to be for the community who wouldn’t otherwise get this opportunity unless they traveled out of the borough to Leonardo’s next performance. That wasn’t the case. Perhaps this is what troubles Rodney? That a room full of white people and art school kids might have felt uncomfortable with such brutal honesty. The kind of brutal honesty that comes from the urgency of the chokehold death of Eric Garner. Perhaps he was uncomfortable for them? It was unnecessary. The only person who could not digest people of color boldly fighting for their lives and the lives of their community that evening was Rodney.

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Rachel Leah Blumenthal for Eater

Scallion pancake wrap at Bess’s Cafe

The readers’ choice honor goes to a true hidden gem in Brookline, Bess’s Cafe, a charming and casual 14-seat Chinese restaurant that specializes in Jiang Nan-style noodles and more.

While the noodles are a must (try the dan dan noodles), don’t miss the scallion pancake wraps, which come stuffed with beef or crispy chicken, or the dumplings, particularly the pork and chive.

Additional Fast-Casual Restaurant of the Year Nominees

Manoa Poke Shop, Ruckus, Yume Ga Arukara

Taproom or Tasting Room of the Year

Lamplighter Brewing Co. 284 Broadway, Cambridge

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Lamplighter Brewing Co.

Taproom or Tasting Room of the Year Readers’ Choice Winner

Bully Boy Distillers 50 Cedric St., Roxbury

Jason Zucco for Bully Boy

Bully Boy Distillers

Additional Taproom or Tasting Room of the Year Nominees

Castle Island Brewing, Down the Road Beer Co., Springdale Barrel Room

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Boston’s Eater Awards Winners 2017

The restaurants, chefs, and taprooms that made the city run wild this year

Today, we are pleased to announce the winners of the eighth annual Eater Awards, celebrating the chefs and restaurants that made the largest impact on all 24 Eater cities over the past twelve months.

Restaurant of the Year

Café du Pays 233 Cardinal Medeiros Ave., Kendall Square, Cambridge

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Duck at Café du Pays

Restaurant of the Year Readers’ Choice Winner

Moona 243 Hampshire St., Inman Square, Cambridge

Brian Samuels for Moona

Chicken bastilla at Moona

Additional Restaurant of the Year Nominees

Frenchie, Pagu, Pammy’s

Chef of the Year

Mary Dumont of Cultivar 1 Court St., Downtown Boston

Huge Galdones for Cultivar

Mary Dumont, chef-owner of Cultivar

Chef of the Year Readers’ Choice Winner

Readers also voted for Mary Dumont as Chef of the Year.

Additional Chef of the Year Nominees

Andrew Brady of Field & Vine, Chris Chung of Momi Nonmi, Douglas Rodrigues of North Square Oyster, Douglass Williams of Mida

Design of the Year

Lolita Cocina & Tequila Bar 253 Summer St., Fort Point, Boston

Rachel Leah Blumenthal for Eater

Lolita Cocina & Tequila Bar’s new Fort Point location

Design of the Year Readers’ Choice Winner

Terra at Eataly Boston 800 Boylston St., Back Bay, Boston

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Terra at Eataly Boston

Additional Design of the Year Nominees

Publico Street Bistro & Garden, Roxy’s/A4cade, Les Sablons

Fast-Casual Restaurant of the Year

Eventide Fenway 1321 Boylston St., Fenway, Boston

Sarah Storrer for Eater

Fried chicken katsu sandwich at Eventide Fenway

Fast-Casual Restaurant of the Year Readers’ Choice Winner

Bess’s Cafe 224 Cypress St., Brookline

Rachel Leah Blumenthal for Eater

Scallion pancake wrap at Bess’s Cafe

The readers’ choice honor goes to a true hidden gem in Brookline, Bess’s Cafe, a charming and casual 14-seat Chinese restaurant that specializes in Jiang Nan-style noodles and more.

While the noodles are a must (try the dan dan noodles), don’t miss the scallion pancake wraps, which come stuffed with beef or crispy chicken, or the dumplings, particularly the pork and chive.

Additional Fast-Casual Restaurant of the Year Nominees

Manoa Poke Shop, Ruckus, Yume Ga Arukara

Taproom or Tasting Room of the Year

Lamplighter Brewing Co. 284 Broadway, Cambridge

Rachel Leah Blumenthal for Eater

Lamplighter Brewing Co.

Taproom or Tasting Room of the Year Readers’ Choice Winner

Bully Boy Distillers 50 Cedric St., Roxbury

Jason Zucco for Bully Boy

Bully Boy Distillers

Additional Taproom or Tasting Room of the Year Nominees

Castle Island Brewing, Down the Road Beer Co., Springdale Barrel Room

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