Perhaps the greatest blight in downtown Boston in recent years has been the stalled Millennium Tower project, but that changed last week when Roche Bros announced they’d open their first ‘new urban’ store here.
The 30,000 square feet store will be smaller than the new Whole Foods that will be opening about a mile away in the South End, but this is good news for the neighborhood, and you better believe, nosey BosGuy will be making a stop there when they open in mid 2015.
Sad but true, summer is now officially over, although for most of us the summer season ended with Labor Day Weekend. Even still it is always sad to say good bye to summer.
Peek-a-Boo
I would like to encourage you to come down to the Boston Common tonight to show your support for the Boston Ballet and to enjoy their free performance starting at 7:00 pm.
Perhaps you’ve never been to the ballet or maybe you haven’t been in years. Challenge your notions of what the ballet is all about and bring a friend. Better yet, bring that friend who is always complaining that they want to “do something different”.
Have a good morning guys and thanks for stopping by.
This year’s Santa Speedo Run in Boston will be on Saturday, December 14, 2013 at Lir Tavern and at Whiskey’s Bar on Boylston Street in Boston.
Registration opens Tuesday, October 1st
Registration for this fun event is on a first come, first serve basis and open to ONLY the first 700 registrants so don’t delay if you are interested in participating. Here is a recap of all the fun at the 2012 event.
This is what I imagine happens when the boy next door grows up and finds a gym. I think this guy is incredibly sexy. What do you think?
I’m off to my last regular season Red Sox game tonight. The team is headed for post season play and I believe can be the first major league team in baseball to secure a spot in the play offs if they win tonight.
When I go out in Boston, I often choose to sit at the bar because it is easier to meet and talk with people.
Over time, I’ve developed friendly relationships with a number of Boston’s bartenders and from time to time I like to feature them. Today’s bartender is Alejandro Alvarez who works at one of my favorite places in the neighborhood, Stella.
If you are a fan of Stella, then you too probably know Alejandro, who has been working here since the spring of 2010. You may not know that he helps design their creative cocktail menu, which includes 20 new libations each season. With the fall drink menu rolling out this month, be sure to come back and enjoy new drinks that will include blood oranges, sage, apples and cinnamon (obviously not all in the same drink).
Stella Boston – 1525 Washington Street – Boston’s South End
You can find Alejandro at Stella’s front bar every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Should you find yourself at Stella when Alejandro is working, please tell him BosGuy says hello and tip him generously.
Last week Zagat published findings from their 2014 survey on Boston restaurants, which includes more than 1,200 restaurants and the collective opinions of more than 8,500 diners.
Their survey showed that Boston has a resilient and growing restaurant scene with many newcomers challenging established favorites. Zagat’s Top Food List gives top honors to a new restaurant this year, the North’s End’s Neptune Oyster (up from No. 4) followed by another seafood restaurant, Island Creek Oyster Bar (previously unranked). The remainder of the top five restaurants include Oleana (No. 3), Craigie on Main (No. 4, previously No. 15), and Lumière (No. 5)
Their survey also found Bostonians eat out 3.7 times per week (for lunch and dinner combined), and report spending an average of $44.19 per dinner.
Want to read more? Check out Zagat’s blog here.
Oklahoma has become the fourth state to deny processing benefits for same-sex military couples; the state joins those other bastions of progress and intellect (I jest): Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana.
Military couples in those states can still apply for such rights on federal military bases but that is not necessarily feasible in some of these states that are quite large . This begs the question since when do Governors of certain states get to ignore Federal law? The answer is apparently when you are a bigot and find it convenient to appeal to your homophobic base. I suppose it goes without saying that the Governors of these four states are all Republicans.
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