City Living (Boston)

Mondays, Bacon, and Beer

Mondays can be a little rough. Especially a beautiful like today. One way to get through it all is to take a few minutes to think ahead to next weekend. You won’t spend too much time because the weekend is still many days away but you get that nice little break to dream about fun…

Date Me: Let ‘s Keep it Strictly Tableside

You know someone using Match.com. Your best friend married their JDate. Christian Mingle is out there too. It’s not a new concept and it seems to work for many. Heck even the Kardashian sisters convinced their little sister to try out online dating. I don’t need a date. Well I do need a date but…

Lunch in Belmont: Patou Thai

Weekdays, I often will meet friends for work or just because we need to get out and chat. This Friday was a busy day between interviews for a story I’m working on and photos I needed to snap for an app job, I grabbed lunch with Jennifer of Politics for The Girls. We went for…

Weekends in Town: Village Fairs, Town Days , and City Festivals

This weekend is for the home bodies, the townies, and the locals. Just about every other town in suburban Boston is having a town day this weekend. Nonantum is having their Village Day it will be Sunday, June 1st from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in Coletti-Magni Park. Belmont is having their Town Day on…

Kirkland Tap & Trotter: Kids May bring their Well Behaved Parents

My daughter and I recently caught up with Chef Tony Maws to taste some of his new menu items on the grown up and the kids menu at Kirkland Tap and Trotter. We sat ringside for our chat with Chef . As we talked, Chef Maws would step away to taste food being prepped in…

Boston Ballet’s Jewels: Three Gems

Both my children appreciate a little “fancy”. Whether it is dressing up for a special occasion, or having just the right accessory, these little things matter. It is the frivolous and unimportant things that are important sometimes. You don’t have to be a 5 year old girl to appreciate the twirling, dreamy, glittery, playfulness of…

Life’s a Ball: Now Duck!

You begin by sitting up on the rug or the tickly green grass and your mom or dad or brother or sister rolls it to you. You learn to roll it back. Then, you get a bit older and your mom or dad or brother or sister or friend throws it to you and you learn…

It’s Out of the Park!: Fenway Beyond The Green Monster

You don’t have to be at Fenway to gather with Red Sox Nation and enjoy the game. You don’t have to be sitting on your couch either. You don’t have to bring the kids to a local sports bar to watch the game either. Today you have the perfect solution: Out of the Park. Out…

Definition: Serendipity

Serendipity is waking up to the sound of an alarm clock except you did not set an alarm. Mother and daughter got back late from the ballet. Husband texted that he was going to swim early in the morning. At 7:15 the construction trucks outside back up and sound like an alarm. I stumble into…

Kirkland Tap and Trotter: Brunch

Kirkland Tap and Trotter, which just over the Cambridge border, outside of Harvard Square, is the guy (could be girl but since Chef Tony Maws is a guy this analogy works better that way) on campus that everyone wants to know. It’s not the Big Man on Campus but the really nice, approachable, easy going…

Long Island: Closer than You Think

When I was a high school student in New York, Memorial Day weekend was a long awaited weekend, because it was the kickoff to summer. For many of my friends that meant it was time to kick off shoes, trade cars for mopeds and take the ferry to Block Island. It has been a long…

Rhubarb Spoon Sweets: Sofra

What you see is the blushing pink of the local spring rhubarb. What you don’t see is the rose. The spoon sweets keep the tartness of rhubarb and mix with the earthy floral fragrant quality of rose water. It is like a spring walk through the neighbourhood. You feel the cool of the morning breeze…