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Robin,

   Thanks very much for the eating tips.  I'm excited to try some of
these places out.  Have you tried Dali in Somerville (on the corner of Beacon and Washington)?  It's a fantastic Spanish place with a great atmosphere, and yummy food.  I rec. it highly!

                       Thanks again

                       - John Hlinko

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The Beacon st. in Somerville is actually a different one from the one that runs through Boston, Newton, etc.

Coming from Harvard Yard (north side), take Kirkland Street around 7 or 8 blocks towards Somerville, and Dali will be on your left, just before you hit Beacon (a main intersection with traffic light, traffic, the whole nine yards).

The food (especially Tapas) is fantastic, and well worth the trip across the Charles.  The atmosphere is also a whole lot of fun. In fact, I'm actually going there tonight with a professor and a few friends.

Another fellow who responded to my plea for help described Dali as his favorite place in the Boston area.  It really is worth the trip.

If you need better directions, let me know!

                   John

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Subject: Cajun / Creole in Boston

Tank a lot mon. Me try dees out lata:

Boston Cajun Food:

 Chez Vous Creole -- Cambridge (Inman Sq)
    1263 Cambridge St
    (was ok a few years ago, heard the Conch stew is good)

 Dixie Kitchen -- Downtown (Symphony)
    Mass Ave betw Boylston & Huntington
    (pretty good, not as upscale as Cajun Yankee)

 Border Cafe -- Cambridge (Harvard Sq)
    (Fun, cheap, pretty good cajun/southwestern food, rodents & roaches)

 Magnolia's Southern Cuisine -- Cambridge (Inman Sq)
    1193 Cambridge St
     (the old Cajun Yankee now serves food from all over the south
     still serving blackened redfish & Blackened Voodoo beer.  Try
     the cajun popcorn)
From [email removed] Thu Apr 25 10:44 EDT 1996
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Below is an answer to a fellow list member who know more about the New England BBQ Society.

After I put this together, I realized that others on the list might be interested. So, here it is.  If any one has any questions, please feel free to ask.  Mike.

John, (other interested bbqlist members)

The New England BBQ Society is made up of a lot of people from Rhodes Island, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, and other area states.  We do have LONG distance members like Ed Roith from Kansas City as well.

Many members compete in local cookoffs.  However I'd be willin' to bet that they are the minority.  There are a lot of local restaurants with members as well as people who just love to grill and bbq.

We meet at the Sit'n Bull Pub the first Monday night of each month.  We meet at 7:30pm arrive at 7:00 for a few beers prior, and then go to a meeting room down stairs for a general bullshit session of bbq talk, business talk, and eating.  The PUB sometimes provides us with free food, they have great ribs, and other times they give us a 50% break off of food.  We pay $3.00 a meeting for members and $5.00 a meeting for non-members. I adds a little to our kitty for promotion of the group at meets...etc.

The Sit'n Bull Pub is in Maynard, 163 Main Street. (508) 897-7232 They are almost right across from the HOME of Digital down town. It is actually just before you get to what use to be their headquarters..I think they called it the Mill.

Usually between 8-15 people show up for a given meeting.  We use to meet in different restaurants around the area, but found we could not get anything accomplished in the average noise in a place of business.  It felt sort of funny being in the middle of a place of business trying to conduct a meeting.  People came to the restaurant to eat bbq, not listen to a bunch of bbq fanatics discuss the virtues of smokin meat with "whiskey-soaked- hazelnut-branches-slightly-charred-to-the-blackened-stage". Just kidding, but you'll hear some pretty wild tales of how people cook their Q.

So, now we meet at the Sit'n Bull Pub and they are VERY nice to us. They do have some good Q too. They do spare-ribs over hickory until they almost fall off the bone. I like them that way. They have a very good table sauce too. I am picky when it comes to BBQ so take it for what it is worth...maybe nothing.  :-)

The group has a newsletter called the Burnt Ends, monthly. You get it with membership.  Membership is $25.00 a year and I find well worth it.

The most recent issue had recipes for Grilled Alaskan Salmon Steaks, Tangy Sweet Barbecue Sauce, Grilled Pork Chops Dijonaise, and Spicy Chicken Legs. I know those sounded like grilled foods not BBQ, but the group is for everyone, so recipes vary from grilled foods to true blue bbq. That same issue had a New England BBQ Restaurant Directory, a review of the Smoke and Spice book by Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison, an restaurant review of a Brazilian BBQ place in Cambridge MA. and some notes on an upcoming Kansas City BBQ Society Certified Judging class.

The address is: N.E.B.S   P.O. Box 97, North Billerica, MA  01862-0097

We have discussed doing "field trips" to local restaurants instead of holding meetings at them.  We have all agreed that we really like to try out new places.  We often get breaks for food AND  a tour of the restaurant's kitchen (smoker etc.) I really like that part.

That's about it for info on the New England BBQ Society. Hope this helped.

Mike R.