Dan McCarthy

Aug 9, 2024 | digboston.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy

If you had to select the one day of the year conventional wisdom suggests would be the worst day to open a new retail storefront, the easy pick would be Black Friday. Yet that was precisely the day partners and couple Ryan Habbyshaw and Kim LaFoy decided to open Loyal Supply Co. in the heart of Somerville's Union Square.

Aug 9, 2024 | digboston.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy

Legendary Kenmore Square festering petri dish of an iconic and career-launching rock club, The Rathskeller, needs no introduction here. But if it does, say if you weren't even born yet when it launched in 1974 (or even when it closed in 1997, for you wee tykes), The Rat is more than just a missed-mark tribute room in a posh hotel nearby (which it also currently is).

Aug 9, 2024 | digboston.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy

For over a decade, Middlesex has been at the epicenter of all manner of dancing, rocking, DJ'ing, special nights-ing, and all around revelry for those who stomp through the night with swelled chests and an inkling to get wild. They also served lunch. Well, it appears that's about to change as a notification that was sent out tonight by manager Nate Brown details the decision to make the shift, shut down at the end of December for some renovations, and what that means in the coming months.

Aug 9, 2024 | digboston.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy

Take Zack Emonds for instance. Back in 2008, before he was bar manager for the newly opened Mast' in Downtown Crossing, he was immersed in a competition at the Foundation Room at the House of Blues and created a gummi fish (molded in an ice cube tray) with rhubarb juice, blood orange triple sec, port wine, and gin. If for no other reason, he says, than because his early history is one bereft of sugar. "I loved candy," he says, "but my dad's in holistic medicine. I was never allowed to have any.

Aug 9, 2024 | digboston.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy

The website for Tasting Counter, ex-Aujourd'hui chef Peter Ungar's forthcoming low carbon footprint locavore restaurant within the newly opened Aeronaut Brewing space, proclaims the philosophy driving the project is "to establish the shortest distance between the production of food and the dining guest."And like all new projects getting off the ground in Boston, the process of bringing it from idea bench to market faces a lot of regulatory red tape, and city-based headaches.