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...MAMA LEONE'S restaurant opened a month ago in a new building just off of Copley Square and within a blown window pane's distance from the new John Hancock building. Above the restaurant is a multi-leveled parking garage and beneath it the Mass Pike...
...original Mama Leone's opened almost a half century ago in New York where it justifiably earned a name as one of the better Italian restaurants with its strengths resting in the variety and quantity of food that the waiters insisted you really could eat. The restaurant expanded in a haphazard way and the jumble of dining rooms, stairways, and doorways helped the now large New York restaurant to maintain some of its intimacy even after it was bought out by Restaurant Associates. Inc. Restaurant Associates operates perhaps the world's most exclusive chain of restaurants, including Forum...
...food, and employees, as evidenced by the current partial restaurant workers' strike in New York, began to demand a decent wage. As some of Restaurant Associates' name restaurants started to lose money, they looked to Boston to boost their sagging fortunes. They built a multimillion dollar restaurant using Mama Leone's good name while conducing a massive advertising campaign that included the trunks of many Boston-area cabs...
Good eating is always more than just good food; the same food tastes different on Nauset Beach than in the Freshman Union. In its desire to process huge numbers of diners, Boston's Mama Leone's has lost any sense of intimacy and family that still lingers in the New York restaurant and supplemented it with large, noisy, open, plain dining rooms more reminiscent of the Greyhound Bus Station than Sunday dinner at the D'Arminio's. Thankfully, no attempt was made to make a month-old building look 100 years old by using plastic bricks, fiberglass rustic beams...
...LENGTH OF THE POLDED proper menu is impressive and for $6.95 one is promised "Mama Leone's Famous Dinner," consisting on paper of fresh vegetables, fruit, cheese and bread; "Famous Antipasti Della Mamma" such as cherrystone class, shrimp cocktail leone, or a glass of tomato juice; followed by a pasts or a soup, then a main course of meat, fish, or meat and served with a vegetable, potato, and mixed green salad; concluding with a beverage and a dessert; cake, pastry, fruit, spumoni or ice cream. If one's main course tastes lean toward price ribs or steak, that will...