Pizza Poll on Twitter This Week

For those of you who are on the Twitter site, we are doing an informal "pizza poll," looking to see which places in the Greater Boston area come out on top in the category for pizza.

If you are on Twitter and would like to participate in the poll, please paste the following into the status window on Twitter:

RT @hiddenboston Pizza Poll--My favorite place in the Boston area for pizza is: _____

Replace the blank space at the end with your choice for best Boston-area pizza and send it off to us. We will tally the results on Friday around noontime and will post them on our twitter page, which is at http://twitter.com/hiddenboston. Thanks for participating!

Pressed Sandwiches Closes All Three Boston Locations

A small local chain of sandwich shops has closed all three of its Boston locations after being in business for about five years. According to an article in the Boston Business Journal, Pressed Sandwiches shut its doors on Oliver Street, Northern Avenue, and Beacon Street over the weekend and the spaces have been put up for sale. The article indicates that the sandwich shops have been struggling of late due to the poor economy.

Pressed Sandwiches featured salads, homemade soups, and a variety of paninis, including Cubanos, prosciutto and mozzarella, tuna and artichoke, pesto pomodoro, and smoked turkey with brie. The restaurant catered mostly to the business crowd, being open on weekdays for breakfast and lunch (the Northern Avenue location was also open on Saturdays).

For more information on the closing of the Pressed Sandwiches chain in Boston, please go to the Boston Business Journal link below.

Pressed Sandwiches squeezed by economy

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The Kells in Allston to be Replaced by Tavern in the Square

A popular restaurant, bar, and entertainment spot in Allston is apparently going to be shutting its doors, with a growing local chain of neighborhood restaurants looking to move into its space. According to the Phantom Gourmet, The Kells, a nightspot on Brighton Avenue in the heart of Allston Village that has been featuring dancing, DJs and live music since the early 1990s, is being replaced by Tavern in the Square, a dining spot and bar with three locations in the Boston area that features mostly American fare and pub grub.

Tavern in the Square first opened in the Central Square section of Cambridge about five years ago and has since opened other locations in the Porter Square neighborhood of Cambridge and in downtown Salem. Their menus feature such items as nachos, fried pickles, crab cakes, burgers, burritos, quesadillas, meatloaf, pasta primavera, turkey tips, and a variety of sandwiches and wraps. Tavern in the Square also offers a number of handcrafted beers.

The address for The Kells (and, eventually, the new Tavern in the Square) is 161 Brighton Avenue (just west of the Harvard Avenue intersection).

Thanks to Boston Tweet for helping with a bit of the information in this article.

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Hingham Beer Works to Open at The Launch at Hingham Shipyard

It looks like a popular local restaurant and brewery chain is going to be opening a new place on the South Shore. According to the Patriot Ledger, the company behind the Boston Beer Works restaurants--Slesar Brothers Brewing Company--is going to open a Hingham Beer Works at The Launch at Hingham Shipyard. The brewing company currently has four other locations in the Boston area, including the original Boston Beer Works across from Fenway Park, a Boston Beer Works branch near North Station and the TD Garden, a Salem Beer Works, and a Lowell Beer Works.

The Patriot Ledger article mentions that Hingham Beer Works may be opening by this summer.

The Launch at Hingham Shipyard is a new retail, residential, and office complex along the harbor just off of Route 3A. Other restaurants that plan to call The Launch their home include Pizzapalooza, Panera Bread, Alma Nove, and Qdoba.

For more information on the planned opening of Hingham Beer Works, please go to the Patriot Ledger link below.

Boston Beer Works owner is opening a restaurant in Hingham

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Obrien's Bakery May Be Coming Back To Quincy

A recently-closed bakery in the Wollaston section of Quincy that featured Irish brown bread and soda bread may be coming back to the city, though in a different location. According to an article in the Patriot Ledger and Wicked Local, O'Brien's Bakery is looking to reopen on Vernon Street, which is located in an industrial section of South Quincy a short distance northwest of the Quincy Adams T station. The article mentions that the bakery needs to get permission from the city to open in this spot (which used to be home to Freeport Tailors) before it can move ahead with its plans, apparently because of the fact that the space is in an industrial zone.

O'Brien's closed its bakery about a year ago at 9 Beale Street in Wollaston after being in business for more than 30 years. In addition to brown bread and soda bread, the bakery also sold a variety of cakes and pastries.

For more information on the proposed reopening of O'Brien's Bakery in Quincy, please go to the Patriot Ledger/Wicked Local link below:

Longtime Wollaston bakery planning to reopen in South Quincy

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Dining Out For Life Coming to Boston In April, 2010

A local organization is bringing an international HIV/AIDS fundraiser to the Boston area for the first time, and the event will include a number of restaurants in and around the city. According to the website of Cambridge Cares About AIDS, Thursday, April 29 will be the date of Dining Out for Life, a fundraiser in which participating restaurants donate 25% of customers' bills to help CCA provide HIV/AIDS care and prevention services to over 3,000 people in the Boston area.

Dining Out for Life is an international HIV/AIDS fundraiser that has held events throughout the United States and Canada. According to the CCA website, the event raised more than $3 million in 2009.

For more information on the Dining Out for Life event that is coming to the Boston area in April of 2010, please go to the link below:

http://www.ccaa.org/Diningout.html

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