The Select Oyster event for No Kids Hungry is scheduled to take place on February 20th at the Boston restaurant. You won’t want to miss it – great food from talented participating chefs, lovely location and an important cause to support.

NIBBLES

Craigie on Main celebrates a decade

CAMBRIDGE, MA – Tony Maws, who first opened Craigie on Main a decade ago, is celebrating with turning his bar into COMB, celebrating the casual side of Craigie with servers in jeans and an exclusive a la carte menu all its own.

The menu will offer “elevated bistro fare” plus snacks and spreads. Among the dishes will be fried onion rings, herbed goat cheese, pork rillettes, a Turkish-spiced stew with Maine mussels and garbanzo beans, and house-made squid ink Mafalde pasta with ham and hedgehog mushroom ragout, all priced from $6-$18.

Additionally, Maws plans Buffalo Sundays, kicking off January 27 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. , priced at $40 and including a beer and unlimited Buffalo bites.

Rosés used to be thought of as Summer sippers. Today, however, they’ve moved into the year-round scene in a big way. We look at three that we found to be worthy of sipping whether the weather is hot, cold or in-between!

Beaujolais Nouveau Rosé – Georges DuBoeuf 2018
The fruit for this wines comes from some 200 producers, partners, Chief Winemaker Denis Lapalus says, who “give us their baby and we raise it.” This vintage is less acidic than those of earlier years, he points out, calling it “classic and balanced.”
Mulderbosch 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Rosé– The grapes for this wine come from “specially farmed vineyards” and the wine is fresh and aromatic with hints of fresh watermelon, strawberries and cherries. It’s 12.5% ABV. The wine receives “cool fermentation with aromatic yeasts” and has fresh fruitiness. It received three starts in Patten’s SA Wines and is the color of sliced watermelon, it’s winemaker says. The final product offers hints of cherries, strawberries and white peach.
Dark Horse 2017 Rosé from California is dry, crisp and bright, a “fruit forward Provence style wine,” the San Modesto,CA winemaker declares. The wine is 13.5 % ABV, available in cans and bottles.

D’Artagnan, established meat purveyor since 1985, offers fresh Japanese Wagui whole tenderloins, rib eyes and striploins, A5 rated and humanely raised. The beef contains no antibiotics, hormones or animal by-products ever, the company stresses. At this time of year, holiday “helpers” such as truffle butter, mushrooms and more. Go to http://www.dartagnan.com.