Word: casas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After most of the golden oldsters have departed, the handful of permanent residents settle down for the summer heat. "This is one of the hottest places in the States," says Johnny Braswell, owner of La Casa Del Rancho restaurant, "but you learn to live with it." Braswell and his wife Betty have lived here for 17 years and raised six kids, packing them off to school in nearby towns. In a community where no one is in charge, Braswell takes it upon himself to maintain the big Q sign on Q mountain. "A while ago, I filled my pickup with...
Brownsville, Texas. Weary yet hopeful, their bodies battered but their spirits high, the families while away the hours at the Casa Romero shelter for Central American refugees. They line up for a lunch of rice and beans, served from steaming kettles; they mop the floors and shoot pool; they practice English phrases; and they wait. And wait...
Restaurateurs are amused by such antics. And delighted. "Dessert sales started going up two or three years ago, and there seems to be no end in sight," reports Leonce Picot, owner of the Down Under and Casa Vecchia in Fort Lauderdale, La Vieille Maison in Boca Raton and the Old House in Monterey, Calif. Ten years ago, only 25% to 30% of diners in his restaurants ordered dessert. Now, says Picot, as many as 70% of Florida customers and 80% of those in California are indulging. Boston's Ritz-Carlton hotel and Shaw's Crab House in Chicago confirm...
Ready for a change of scenery, four of us trooped over to Casablanca (40 Brattle St.). Beneath the Brattle Theater, down the hall from Cafe Algiers, Casa B's and the Boathouse are about as similar as creme de menthe...
...exited through Casa B's swinging doors, we met up with Chris and Pablo, who were still wandering. They declined our invitation to the Kong, saying they wanted a man's night...