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For that special Valentine's Day Celebration, Boston hotels, restaurants and even Trolley Tours have come up with some super indulgent chocolate menus and tasting events.

Among the best is the ever-popular Dessert Table at Aujourd'hui, the elegant dining room at the Five Diamond-rated Four Seasons Hotel overlooking the Public Garden on Boylston Street.

This upscale French-style restaurant with mahogany bar and drawing room grandeur has long featured the Dessert Table, which après ...

The Omni Parker House is Boston’s oldest existing hotel and arguably the most “Bostonian” in atmosphere, with mahogany woodwork and crystal chandeliers in the lobby, comfortable chairs of the kind you can sink into, plus gracious service to match.

Built in 1855, this icon of hotels, where Parker House Rolls and Boston Creme Pie were invented, has hosted all manner of famous folks, from Charles Dickens, to presidents and Olympic Gold ...

So you’re in Boston celebrating a birthday and looking for something a little out of the ordinary?  Say, a rustic lodge type of setting with a talking moose and wait staff that will sing your birthday song when the chocolate cake is served?

Bugaboo Creek is right up your alley.  From the moment you step inside Bugaboo Creek’s wilderness/snowshoe/deer antler/grizzly bear ambiance, you’re in the wild—at least in spirit.

Named for the ...

A wintry mix is due to be hitting the greater Boston area within the next day or so, and while the news of impending snow should have me focusing on whether I can locate my shovel, instead my head is filled with nostalgic visions of waking up on snowdays.  While the greatest joy of the snowday is really no longer available to me in the working world (i.e. getting the day ...

We had heard a lot of good things about Clio, the chic upscale Back Bay restaurant at the Eliot Hotel specializing in Asian-influenced French cuisine, and decided to try it out for a light supper on a recent winter’s night.

Chef Ken Oringer has earned an impressive reputation as a top-of-the-line innovator with a keen imagination and distinguished credentials,

His cuisine, said to be “a rare balance of ...

Welcome to the second installment of my two-part series discussing the cafe options at Davis Square, Somerville. The first part of the series was posted a few days ago (here's a link: Davis Square Cafe Redux Part I) and discussed cafes that are primarily eateries. Today I'm dishing the dish on the coffeehouses around Davis Square.

Diesel Cafe: Elm Street. Hours are great- open early and ...

Hello Bloggers, I hope that you're doing well.  Today I would like to tell you about a staple in the New England area, SEAFOOD.  Many of us in Boston are familiar with the east coast chain, Legal Sea Foods, but for those of you who aren't, you must come try it! 

From its 1950 fish market origins in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Legal Sea Foods has grown to ...

There is no shortage of cafes in Davis Square, which is one of the reasons why I love it so.� Winter Sundays are made for lazy long afternoons at a cafe with good coffee and the Boston Globe.� Davis Square is on the T (Redline to Davis between Porter and Alewife) and�located near Tufts, MIT, and Harvard (as well as Lesley, Cambridge College and probably many other colleges).� Between college ...

Quincy Market, Boston’s most-visited tourist attraction, was originally constructed in 1826, a stone’s throw from the “Cradle of Liberty,” Faneuil Hall, at the apex of the city’s open-air food market since Puritan times.

The granite and brick, slate-roofed building looks much the same on the exterior as it did 175 years ago, but has come a long way, with architectural renovation, renaissance, and multiple tourist attractions, to ...

Café Vanille at the Chestnut Hill Shopping Mall – a Parisian “Find” in Boston

Parisian ambience, or as near as you can get to it, is always welcome in a café on the U.S. side of the Atlantic, and we happened upon one today, during a shopping trip to the Chestnut Hill Shopping Mall—one of Boston’s best shopping centers, about a twenty minute drive from ...