Benedetto, an Italian restaurant that emphasizes local ingredients, opened its doors this week in the Charles Hotel. The restaurant replaces Rialto, an award-winning restaurant that served Italian food for more than 20 years before closing this summer, and joins a roster of high-end restaurants, including Parsnip, Henrietta’s Table, and Harvest in Harvard Square.
Harvard Square’s Hong Kong Restaurant has served its time for its October 2016 drug violation — almost.
As the architect of the project cited in your article, I take exception to your characterization of it. My aim wasn’t a transformation of Harvard Square into a ‘mini Times Square.”
Julia Child was a regular customer, scouring the Out of Town News kiosk here for German and Italian cooking magazines. John Kenneth Galbraith came to the kiosk every day to buy Le Monde. And in 1975, a young man named Paul Allen picked up a copy of Popular Electronics with a picture of a boxy personal computer on the cover; he shared it with his friend Bill Gates, and, well, the rest is history.
The reports of its demise were greatly exaggerated. We’re talking about the Algiers Coffee House in Harvard Square. The beloved café/restaurant on Brattle Street isn’t closing after all. A few weeks after a Facebook post abruptly announced that it would cease operations posthaste, there’s word that Algiers Coffee House is back in business, albeit under new management.
Café Algiers in Harvard Square is open again. The well-known café shut in October, saying that “Algiers will be closing after many years of business, may years of hard work and many stories.”
Cambridge City Councilors are objecting to a plan from city officials to speed along a process seeking new designs for the Out of Town News kiosk in Harvard Square. At their Oct. 31 meeting, the City Council voted unanimously to approve a policy order that urged the city to slow down the process, potentially making room for historic preservation efforts to advance.
Springsteen fans flock to Harvard Square…
A line of thousands wound its way from the front entrance of The COOP on Massachusetts Avenue down along Church Street, as loyal fans waited to meet Bruce Springsteen at his book signing in Harvard Square this afternoon. (Click here to see more photos.) The Boss came to Cambridge for the last stop of his book-signing tour to take photos and sign copies of his new autobiography, “Born To Run,” released Sept. 27.
Forget about your iPod – now you can create your own tunes or play old favorite by visiting numerous locations throughout Boston and Cambridge where pianos have been set up for use by the public until Oct. 10.