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Your Perks: 1) Free wireless Internet—thanks to a tiny, portable box you can carry with you everywhere. 2) A pair of iconic aviators—the kind Maverick would wear. 3) The most intelligently designed umbrellas around. Spring showers bring Perked umbrellas...
Piadina. Sounds like the name of a beautiful signora or something. But really, it’s a flaky flatbread sandwich from Northern Italy. You’ll find it alongside generous quantities of espresso at this new, exactly named café in the Financial District. Which you may now call the Flatbread District.
Take a peek into either Boston-area Goorin Bros. shop tonight, and you’ll notice that they’ve been filled with free mojitos, live Cuban music and a Havana-inspired collection of straw hats and porkpie fedoras. Must be some sort of Cuban-themed hat party.
“Hey, Hawthorne,” you fake-said, “can you make me a muffuletta with ghost-chili salami on Friday and Saturday nights?” “Sure,” the Hawthorne fake-replied, “we’ll make one two-footer and sell it in sections all night. But you can get all 24 inches by calling ahead.” This has been fun.
Merrill & Co. used to have lunch 0% of the time. That’s changed to 28.57% of the time, with the addition of a weekend-only lunch featuring fried-catfish sandwiches and a Diner Breakfast platter with eggs, hash browns and a weekly meat special. So you can always count on it not being tofu.
There’s a guac-off at the Painted Burro. It works like American Idol, if American Idol were about eating people’s guacamole submissions and voting the winning batch onto the Burro’s menu. So, better than American Idol in every possible way.
