Verveine Cafe & Bakery is now open in Cambridge’s Central Square. | Brooke Elmore/Verveine Cafe & Bakery At Verveine Cafe & Bakery, there’s kimchi, egg, and cheddar danishes, ube fudge brownies, double chocolate tahini cookies, and a whole lot more For decorated chefs Monica Glass and Ken Oringer, Verveine Cafe & Bakery — a collaborative spot from the pair that recently opened in Cambridge — has been a long time coming. Brooke Elmore/Verveine Cafe & Bakery Inside the cafe. Oringer and Glass first worked together over a decade ago at Clio, Oringer’s French fine dining establ ..read more

The Quiet Few is expanding to South Boston with a new (and much larger) spot to hang out. | Small Victories Small Victories is opening its doors in South Boston this month Sure, it’s right there in the name, but there’s nothing “small” about Small Victories, the bar and restaurant that opens in South Boston’s Andrew Square in the middle of next week from the team behind East Boston’s the Quiet Few. Expect larger-than-life flavors within a generous 2,550 square-foot layout in a new mixed-use building just steps away from the Andrew Square T stop. Then there’s the oversized plates. Like, “bring ..read more

The bò lúc lắc at modern Vietnamese restaurant Lê Madeline in Quincy. | Ken Rivard/Lê Madeline Plus, chef Will Gilson has another restaurant in the works, and more news of the week The city’s first-ever Asian Restaurant Week launches today, showcasing dozens of the area’s top Asian-owned restaurants from fast-casual spots like Bon Me, Dakzen, and Fiya Chicken to date-night favorites like Lê Madeline, Pagu, and Sumiao Hunan Kitchen. Here’s how it works: Each participating restaurant has three signature dishes on the menu they are featuring for the event from May 3 to May 11. Each diner who orde ..read more

An early spring dish at cozy Cambridge restaurant Talulla made the list. | Erika Adams/Eater Boston All our favorite things that we ate (and drank) in April Welcome to Eater Boston’s best dishes column, where the team shares the dishes they couldn’t stop thinking about each month. See past installments here. Erika Adams/Eater Boston Crunch salad from Talulla Okay, stick with me here: The name may sound mundane, but this little crunch salad from Cambridge darling Talulla is anything but boring. It’s a collection of start-of-spring vegetables — radishes, snow peas, and snap peas — mixed together ..read more

Arcade-ready lobster rolls. | Giles Christopher/F1 Arcade Plus, lauded bagel shop Bagelsaurus is expanding — and more restaurant news to know this week Sip cocktails, slurp oysters, and crash (virtual) cars at the Seaport’s new F1 Arcade, which opens to the public this week. The vibe is arcade, but make it luxury: The menu includes a full-on seafood tower ($119), caviar service ($180), and a trio of mini lobster rolls ($39) which can be eaten in between turns behind the wheel at one of the arcade’s 69 full-motion vehicle simulators. This F1 Arcade is the first U.S. location for the London-base ..read more

Greek restaurant Bar Vlaha was one of three Brookline restaurants to make the list. | Malakhai Pearson/Eater Boston Tonino, Comfort Kitchen, Bar Vlaha, and more made the list The New York Times has been busy dropping city-specific restaurant lists over the past six months or so. There’s the mega list of top-100 restaurants in New York City that the Times’ restaurant critic Pete Wells is in charge of, and then smaller top-25 lists have been published in Seattle, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, New Orleans, and San Francisco. This week, it was Boston’s turn for the treatment. On Monday, Apri ..read more

Falmouth’s now-closed C Salt Wine Bar & Grille, the last place Charles Withers was working at in Massachusetts. | Via Google Maps After his wife enlisted the help of the internet, a deluge of TikTok sleuths started digging around for the chef’s whereabouts This weekend, a scandal unfolded on social media involving a chef who got his start cooking in Boston, and it ended up garnering interest from TikTokers around the globe, with dozens of videos posted, some garnering over 150,000 views since April 7. On Saturday, Ashley McGuire shared a post on Facebook (which has since been deleted), loo ..read more

Smoked brisket, mac and cheese, and collard greens from Wade’s BBQ. | Erika Adams/Eater Boston Plus, a one-night-only Texas-Boston collab comes to town — and more restaurant news to know this week Just six months after it started, Wade BBQ’s run at 5 Sanborn Court in Somerville’s Union Square is over. Boston.com reports that proprietor David Wade received notice from his landlord on March 28 that his lease was going to be terminated at the end of April. The termination stems from ventilation issues with the barbecue smoke, Wade says, and a neighboring tenant had complained to the landlord. Wad ..read more

Ivory Pearl served its last dinners on March 31. | Erika Adams/Eater Boston Five recent restaurant closures to know around Boston This periodic column rounds up restaurant closures in and around Boston. Catch up on more news about closures in the Boston area right here. Know of a restaurant closure that should be on Eater Boston’s radar? Get in touch here. BROOKLINE — Ivory Pearl, the chic seafood spot and late-night hangout from the Blossom Bar team, wrapped up its last service on March 31. “In an ever-changing restaurant landscape, facing challenges such as rising costs, the need for adaptat ..read more

There’s a new home for Cloud Candy in town. | Mighty Squirrel Plus, North End restaurateurs assembled for a St. Patrick’s Day protest over outdoor dining, and more weekly dining intel Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day weekend, Mighty Squirrel — a Waltham brewery that is home to the cult-favorite New England-style IPA Cloud Candy — opened its new, 13,000-square-foot brewery and taproom in Fenway. According to the Boston Globe, the massive, two-story space will produce some of the same brews as the company’s Waltham facility, plus occasional Fenway site exclusives. There are four bars on site ..read more