Ines Tavares
Eating Boston from the North End to Dorchester
Based in East Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Ines grew up between the Azorean bakeries of East Cambridge and her family's Sunday kitchen, and she reviews a restaurant by ordering the dish the room is built around. She knows which North End red-sauce spots are coasting and where in Dorchester to find the better Cape Verdean cachupa.
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Following Boston's Lobster From Trap to Table
A day spent following Boston's catch out of the Fish Pier gates and into the counters, lobster pounds and raw bars that sell it, with what each plate costs, who takes bookings, and what to do if you turn up as a group.
The Old-Country Boston: Italian Life the North End Tourists Never See
The most serious Italian cooking in Boston long ago slipped the North End's narrow streets — here's where the city's Italian families actually eat, plate by plate.
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