Daniel M. wrote: > >Any comments on restaurants around Newtonville? The Blue Ribbon Barbecue has some great barbecue, and their dream bars are addictive, I know. %^D A good habanero hot sauce and a very tasty apple chipotle chutney. 1375 Washington St, West Newton, Mass. (617)-332-2583 Is this Newtonville? Chuck Demas Needham, Mass.
Boston, MA
Newtonville restaurants
From: bill balint >Karoun's (Washington St.)-- never been there. I've always wondered about this place, it's been there for decades and appears to serve middle-eastern / turkish fare in a dinner house setting. Anyone eaten there? I guess I should just go and find out. >George's (Washington St.)-- very basic barfood (burgers, club >sandwiches, etc.) and prime rib and lobster specials, depending on the >day. Mediocre. Mediocre is about right, I've stopped in there, can't imagine why I would again unless it was the only thing open and I wanted a quick bite (not awful or anything, but like he said, mediocre bar food, one step up from eating in a bowling alley.) You left out Cabot's, the sort of corny, old-fashioned (well, 60's style) ice cream parlor on Washington St. They serve food which is pretty good in a diner sort of style (burgers, club sandwiches, mac+cheese, usually a special du jour or two), and BREAKFAST ALL DAY, which is what I'll go there for, eggs, pancakes, belgian and regular waffles, pretty good corned beef hash and eggs actually. And their ice cream is superb, try the pistachio (you'll say "*wow*! pistachios! i can really taste the pistachios! why do we buy that other crap?") with their bittersweet hot fudge which should be labelled as a drug. I was skeptical of the whole chocolate/endorphin thing until I ate some of Cabot's bittersweet hot fudge. (they also have an extensive selection of low-fat frozen yoghurt and mixins etc if you go for that kind of thing, and all kinds of "fountain" treats, parfaits, sundaes, ice cream sodas, massive sundae-like things with 40 scoops of ice cream, ice cream cakes, etc.)
Patrick T. wrote:
>Appetito--yuppie, if I recall correctly, yuppie Italian. Very tasty.
Definitely yummy. They will take lunch reservation, but not dinner
reservation, which means I no longer try to go there at
dinner. *Ridiculous* waits for a local restaurant. They will do
take-out, however.
Their bread is wonderful and they have a great chickpea-garlic-other
things dip that they serve with it.
My favorite entree is the Fettucine Vernazza, but since I figured out
how to make it at home, the bread is what brings us to Appetite these
days.
I do recommend it, but suggest trying lunch first (better prices, too).Charles D. wrote: : That was Sally Lings as I recall, and it was fancy as I recall. I think that the name changed a few years ago to "Fat Happy" or something like that, but with the same exact menu, and then changed again more recently. I only went to Sally Lings once--as I said, OK food at VERY high prices. I : always liked the Seven Star Mandarin Restaurant that was a couple : blocks away, but I haven't been to either in several years. The food : at the Seven Star was always good, and the price reasonable though the : portions were adequate, they were not huge.It's located at the top of : the triangle that Alden Merril (that great cheesecake place) faces. Alden Merril has moved to Langley Road, opposit the big parking lot. and is now a coffee shop/lunch/dessert kind of place. They serve excellent coffee from Armeno's in Northborough.