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Foodies wondering what was going to fill the space of their beloved Craigie Street Bistrot finally have their answer. A new restaurant, Ten Tables, which aspires to replicate the “dinner party in someone’s home” atmosphere of its original Jamaica Plain incarnation, opened its Cambridge location on Monday night. After about a year of planning for a new branch, co-owner Krista Kranyak settled on the former space of Craigie Street Bistrot, tucked off Garden St and a quick walk from the Quad. “I just sort of had a vision...
...with a sunset stroll along the promenade on the Pacific to see Panama both old (Las Bovedas, a 17th century Spanish fort) and new (Frank Gehry's Museum of Biodiversity, which is still under construction but rising rapidly) before heading to the recently opened Pony Club (www.limoncillo.com) for dinner. Panamanian chef Clara Icaza has worked at Manhattan hot spot Aquavit, and her nuevo-Panamanian menu includes signature dishes such as Turkolimano (grilled jumbo prawns, tomato and feta with lemon-ouzo vinaigrette) and squid risotto in a broth of octopus and roasted red pepper, all served in a pale-wood dining...
...mixture of applause and boos. He acknowledged that in the last election cycle, "We got our clocks cleaned. We got, as my momma said, 'a good old-fashioned whoopin',' and we deserved it," mainly because, he contended, the party had veered from its 1994 contract with America. (After the dinner, one person noted that the menu could have been better chosen - the main dish was pork, not the most welcoming entree for Jews who keep kosher or for South Asian Muslims, of whom there are many in DuPage...
Steele used the moment to introduce himself to the audience, describing his upbringing by a mother who picked cotton in the South, before moving to Washington, and refusing to take welfare because "she didn't want the government to raise her children." He recalled attending his first Lincoln Day dinner 23 years ago, in Maryland, and how, as a black man, "I didn't get the warmest reception." Friends, he said, had warned: "'They don't like black folks. Republicans, they're mean.' I thought about that, I said, that's not the party of Lincoln. So I decided...
...comes not from fares but from onboard spending. The industry's dilemma, says Carolyn Spencer Brown, editor of CruiseCritic.com, is that "if it takes fares this low to get me onboard, am I really going to spend that much in the casino or on the bottle of wine at dinner?" Says Yeary, "I do plan to be a little more careful in that department." To help make up for the shortfall, Royal Caribbean now charges fees for services like late-night room service, traditionally free on cruises...