South Boston, famous as an urban working-class waterfront community and bastion of immigrant heritage has been shifting from Irish outpost to up-and-coming neighborhood. As young professionals are priced out of Beacon Hill and Back Bay, The area’s hilly streets of 3-deckers have been converted to condos, and its commercial streets have gentrified remarkably. A...
Summer in Amsterdam is brief, hemmed in on either side by a June that can be as wet and freezing as a North American November, and an autumn that arrives whipping off the North Sea. Even in the middle of July, it can rain sideways and evening outing calls for a warm jacket. The Netherlands...
In the game of celebrichef Go Fish, London has traded one naked chef for one French chef with our friends across the pond. And from the looks of things, we’ve got the winner. Bar Boulud, the first London outpost from NYC phenom Daniel Boulud opens Thursday in Knightsbridge (although they’re taking reservations today). The...
Washington still has many holes in its dining options, heavy on the hotel lobby haute-cuisine, with too many expense-account steakhouses and forgettable ethnic eateries. Thankfully, in recent years the city has started to get some serious culinary start-ups, and the City Present’s favorite restaurant in the nation’s capital is the incredible, absolutely unique Birch...
Pizza East is Set within the industrial, warehouse surrounds of the old Tea building – on the corner of Shoreditch High Street and Bethnal Green Road – Pizza East is the latest venture from Soho House restaurateur and entrepreneur Nick Jones, and comes located conveniently close to his original East London offering, Shoreditch House...
