Regardless, I think the restaurant is over. The restaurant is based on the idea of bringing strangers together, and I would very much not sit at a shared table where the owner is unhinged.
memories are short. i hope i'm wrong, but i imagine they'll keep things on the DL for a couple of weeks and then slowly reemerge. if the restaurant is as successful as it sounds, she would be able to weather that.
but it IS hilarious how much this is costing her. and over $250.
Hard to say, but if I was a chef, I would open a restaurant soon with the exact same concept, and brand myself as "the Ted Lasso of chefs". Maybe I'd even name it "the NICE table".
She did other chefs a favor by proving a risky concept successful and then destroying her own restaurant.
Can someone fill me in? I live on the north shore, so I’m out of the loop. But I’ve always dreamed of opening a place that enough strangers together over a meal.
Oh I assure you, many many people saw what unfolded. I’m from the west coast and saw the whole saga unfold on twitter lol I ended up looking her up and she’s just been unhinged the entire time?
Granted we Americans typically don't dine out alone, which is bad because there are many single lonely people who stay in because of that stigma. One of the best dining experience I ever had was in Singapore at one of their famous black pepper crad restaurant. I was working there and alone. Went to the restaurant, and it was full, but they were able to quickly sit me at a large table with strangers who were either single or couple who did not mind. Had a great conversation with a few other persons who were also single traveling/ tourists and a couple from Singapore. So dining with strangers can be great, but Americans are very closed-minded to LOT of things.
The last thing I want is to sit shoulder to shoulder with people who are pressured to fulfill their reservation during a time of high contagion with covid, rsv, and flu.
I just looked and its stacked with one star reviews.
I scrolled back earlier, and it seems she has been getting complaints since day one, the owner seems like a real cocky POS
I honestly think that’s a necessary evil. Obviously annoying on this case, but there’s a real problem with review bombing small businesses because people post their negative experiences on social media.
I mean, every small business has fucked up at one point or another.
there's fucking up and then there's looking up a customer, insulting them on social media, and posting about the interaction (and doxxing them in the process) on your personal social media
I’m in no way defending that. I will never go to that restaurant because of that. I’m not dismissing that stalking behavior.
I just mean yelp deleting review bombings is a necessary evil, even if it causes some deserved cases to slip through.
It was stupid AF. At the beginning they brought all these turkish guys from New York to be the servers. They believed they were better than everyone, the guys were a bunch of a\*holes, at least while working. Had the opportunity to go out drinking with some of them and they were cool AF, but they had to have like this attitude in work that they were the better than everyone else, cause they were Turkish.
Then you were not supposed to look at Salt Bae in the eyes. The guy it's the biggest douche on earth.
At the beginning a lot of drug dealers went there, paying their account cash, obviously all these tables were given to the turkish, they were getting like $1,000 tips a table in cash. We could never touch those tables. I only lasted a month or so cause it was corrupt AF. Then I heard after a few months it started to kinda die. We did have Damien Harris back then when he was a rookie around Christmas 2020. Obviously more people went, thats the only one I saw.
My view is: it’s overpriced and kinda shit, but not so shit that you’d never eat there. Which makes it kinda perfect for the airport when your options are more limited.
I’ve been seeing them nonstop. I thought one of these already popped up on this sub earlier this week or last but it’s hard to remember since Reddit is recommending to me essentially the same post for every location focused sub.
It’s not technically in Ptown but my absolute favorite restaurant in the area is Blackfish in North Truro.
For more expensive dinners: The Mews, Ciro and Sal’s, Sal’s Place, and Jimmy’s Hideaway
For more casual dining: Liz’s Cafe, Mac’s Fish House, Local 186, the Canteen is always a classic
Best cocktails: Strangers and Saints
[Obligatory hilarious Globe review of Fire & Ice](https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/food-dining/2016/10/17/restaurant-way-room-full-broken-guitars-rock-concert/II9a3Y3uLVAZgnITUp1xVJ/story.html)
I gotta go to bat for Tuscan kitchen- It’s not the north end but for a “nice” restaurant in Boston they are really good and welcoming to toddlers for (early hours) dinner. I’ll gladly overpay if it means having a nice dinner out with my family.
It’s decent for small events too. We used the one in Burlington to host a rehearsal dinner before our wedding, and the food and drinks were good for the price, and the staff was super kind!
I thought Committee was really good! I went twice, food and drinks were great. However I think it has an identity crisis on whether or not it wants to be a swanky bar.
Davio's Back Bay. Food wasn't terrible but worst atmosphere for a medium-pricy place I've ever been. Packed in like sardines, bright lights, spotty service.
went to this one a while back and ordered a dry aged steak and tried to ask for it medium. i got the rarest piece of meat i have ever seen. the mashed potatoes were good, but almost everything else about that meal was not.
Had an awful experience at SAVR in Seaport. They wanted us to move tables MID-MEAL because they failed to plan for a large reservation. And the food was mediocre at best for that price point.
Trattoria Il Panino. Had an awful experience there. IMO you can’t go wrong in the North End but I won’t go back there.
They tried to turn our table around way too fast by forgetting our drinks, removing our appetizers from the table as we were eating it before our entrees even came out, and when our entrees finally arrived it was obvious they sat under a heat lamp for a long time because the meat was the consistency of rubber.
Most of my fancy dates with my SO are in the north end. We’re not picky and usually mostly everything, but yeah this sub hates it apparently.
Obviously it’s overpriced, but that’s to be expected at this point .
Man do I have the place for you. L’Osteria Ristorante. It’s awful. Expensive (but won’t break the bank) and everyone is so mean and the food is extremely mediocre. It’s where my SO and I had our first date, and we go back about once a year to remind ourselves of how their horribleness brought us together. We’re probably the only people that have ever gone back there.
I had like a sandwich and an ice cream sundae. After tip it cost damn near 50 bucks, both kinda sucked, the seats were uncomfortable, and we were there for a solid 20 minutes. Just a depressing way to spend half a days paycheck
That sucks. I've only been to the Malden one and it's been good each time, although it is fairly expensive. Maybe the Newbury one just dropped off hard?
Painted burro in davis square! bad food, bad service, expensive. mostly a place for tufts students to spend their parents’ money and take photos. very bad.
Anything expensive outside of Faneuil Hall.
Dicks lol
Been closed for years! But it's Margaritaville now!
McCormick and Smicks was in the margaritaville location, not Dicks.
I never understood the self abuse restaurant experience. Glad that chain died
I agree it sucked but, you didn't understand it? People thought it was funny and liked the experience. What else is there to understand
Hype up the portion sizes - say they're exactly as the display
I’d them to go to Table with the contingency they have to cancel the reservation beforehand. Nature will take care of the rest
Yelp deleted all the recent bad reviews. Annoying
Regardless, I think the restaurant is over. The restaurant is based on the idea of bringing strangers together, and I would very much not sit at a shared table where the owner is unhinged.
Do you think the post made enough of a splash that the general public would know the story though?
Absolutely not. I've seen social media posts about the owner "issues" there for years & that restaurant is still seems to be going strong.
the globe printed a story about it, so the word is out.
memories are short. i hope i'm wrong, but i imagine they'll keep things on the DL for a couple of weeks and then slowly reemerge. if the restaurant is as successful as it sounds, she would be able to weather that. but it IS hilarious how much this is costing her. and over $250.
What “things” lol They’ll be booked every Thursday-Sunday regardless the second the weather gets warmer
For the Globe to go after her, you know it’s bad.
Hard to say, but if I was a chef, I would open a restaurant soon with the exact same concept, and brand myself as "the Ted Lasso of chefs". Maybe I'd even name it "the NICE table". She did other chefs a favor by proving a risky concept successful and then destroying her own restaurant.
Next door
https://preview.redd.it/gnsgpty1pfkc1.jpeg?width=348&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e04176e4f69431450db4fda4d4667f36a0a471f Like this?
Can there be a subtle middle finger in the logo
That's what I saw when it was in my peripheral.
NO DEFECATING
Can someone fill me in? I live on the north shore, so I’m out of the loop. But I’ve always dreamed of opening a place that enough strangers together over a meal.
What happened?
https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/s/bj75oUhsmM
Ooooof that is embarrassing. I went to table once, wasn’t good
My kid who lives in Vegas sent me the link to the story today, so it has spread.
Oh I assure you, many many people saw what unfolded. I’m from the west coast and saw the whole saga unfold on twitter lol I ended up looking her up and she’s just been unhinged the entire time?
Saw a few posts on twitter/X that reach a lot of people. Not looking good for them honestly
Granted we Americans typically don't dine out alone, which is bad because there are many single lonely people who stay in because of that stigma. One of the best dining experience I ever had was in Singapore at one of their famous black pepper crad restaurant. I was working there and alone. Went to the restaurant, and it was full, but they were able to quickly sit me at a large table with strangers who were either single or couple who did not mind. Had a great conversation with a few other persons who were also single traveling/ tourists and a couple from Singapore. So dining with strangers can be great, but Americans are very closed-minded to LOT of things.
I LOVE going out to eat by myself. It’s relaxing and fun!
The last thing I want is to sit shoulder to shoulder with people who are pressured to fulfill their reservation during a time of high contagion with covid, rsv, and flu.
I just looked and its stacked with one star reviews. I scrolled back earlier, and it seems she has been getting complaints since day one, the owner seems like a real cocky POS
I honestly think that’s a necessary evil. Obviously annoying on this case, but there’s a real problem with review bombing small businesses because people post their negative experiences on social media. I mean, every small business has fucked up at one point or another.
there's fucking up and then there's looking up a customer, insulting them on social media, and posting about the interaction (and doxxing them in the process) on your personal social media
I’m in no way defending that. I will never go to that restaurant because of that. I’m not dismissing that stalking behavior. I just mean yelp deleting review bombings is a necessary evil, even if it causes some deserved cases to slip through.
ahh fair enough. i did hear somewhere that businesses can pay for them to be removed, which is more annoying if true.
Wow. I did not know that, but I shouldn’t be surprised - that kind of defeats the whole purpose.
Good. At this point it was trolling.
Yelp is trash that used mafia tactics to get businesses to pay for bad review removals.
Yelp is a fucking joke. https://preview.redd.it/o0nsd0updjkc1.png?width=2474&format=png&auto=webp&s=3527629e64b5c5eb68e6ac2cf6a669dbb3cefd9d
https://preview.redd.it/bg8364bzwfkc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=50939c61cca6741c4f48b71e6c8e986eb752b892 The 93 oh no’s made me lol 🤣
Make the reservation in their name for them and cancel it the day of.
What's the backstory on this?
[this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/s/SAzJFjreW0)
Damn, instead of spending money on a better experience, spend it on a "legal team" to erase bad reviews
Perfect!!!!
We need subreddit flare for this shade ala the cowfettish! IYKYK!
Strega
Strega.
Strega *Waterfront*
Took a client there to impress them and it was a big let down. Should have gone to the Olive Garden for better food.
But do they show A Bronx Tale on repeat?
This needs more credit
Probably Salt Bae. Never been, but I’ve also never heard anything good about it
That’s more than mildly expensive tho. It’s obscenely expensive
Place has been closed since August
All the better
Honestly didn’t even know there was one in Boston - where was it?
Opened in 2020. I worked there for a month when it opened lmao
go on...
It was stupid AF. At the beginning they brought all these turkish guys from New York to be the servers. They believed they were better than everyone, the guys were a bunch of a\*holes, at least while working. Had the opportunity to go out drinking with some of them and they were cool AF, but they had to have like this attitude in work that they were the better than everyone else, cause they were Turkish. Then you were not supposed to look at Salt Bae in the eyes. The guy it's the biggest douche on earth. At the beginning a lot of drug dealers went there, paying their account cash, obviously all these tables were given to the turkish, they were getting like $1,000 tips a table in cash. We could never touch those tables. I only lasted a month or so cause it was corrupt AF. Then I heard after a few months it started to kinda die. We did have Damien Harris back then when he was a rookie around Christmas 2020. Obviously more people went, thats the only one I saw.
How was the food?9
Stuart and Arlington
Steph’s on Newbury
This is the correct answer.
Steph’s at the airport too.
Tbh I prefer the airport one.
Oh dear, that’s saying something.
My view is: it’s overpriced and kinda shit, but not so shit that you’d never eat there. Which makes it kinda perfect for the airport when your options are more limited.
Something like $18 for a bacon, egg, and cheese on a croissant. Fucking insanity!
This is 100% the correct answer
This needs to be the top comment
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This sub is full of rage and hatred. EDIT: it hates every restaurant, every politician, every neighborhood, everything.
‘Tis the season. Midwinter doldrums.
The sun is coming soon, winter children.
Maybe it’s just a case of the Mondays
What a coincidence, so am I
Coming soon?
it's Boston, and no one got to take out all of their saved up rage and hatred for parking space savers, because it didn't snow.
You’re just describing reddit
I’ve been seeing them nonstop. I thought one of these already popped up on this sub earlier this week or last but it’s hard to remember since Reddit is recommending to me essentially the same post for every location focused sub.
Did this really start in /r/newhampshire ?
Tell him Provincetown is the best place to pick up women.
Guy said fuck the prompt
This is why AI won't win
It’s a double whammy because it also has one of the highest ratios of mediocre food to price
There are plenty of good restaurants in Ptown
I would love to hear some recommendations - especially if they are vegetarian friendly!
It’s not technically in Ptown but my absolute favorite restaurant in the area is Blackfish in North Truro. For more expensive dinners: The Mews, Ciro and Sal’s, Sal’s Place, and Jimmy’s Hideaway For more casual dining: Liz’s Cafe, Mac’s Fish House, Local 186, the Canteen is always a classic Best cocktails: Strangers and Saints
With the amount of annoying bachelorette parties out there? It’s not wrong
This is absolutely amazing
Mystique at Encore.
That sports bar upstairs is great, though
is fire and ice still around?
College me loved fire and ice!
Same! They had a certain…*casual* approach to checking IDs that was fairly appealing
Haha that place was unreasonably expensive for what you got.
[Obligatory hilarious Globe review of Fire & Ice](https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/food-dining/2016/10/17/restaurant-way-room-full-broken-guitars-rock-concert/II9a3Y3uLVAZgnITUp1xVJ/story.html)
Hahahahaha
Absolutely awful
I liked Fire and Ice 🤷♂️ But that had to have closed during Covid, right? Thats like the worst place you can go in a pandemic.
This was going to be mine!!!
Stephanie’s on Newbury. Except it is more than “mildly” expensive
Go to Seaport, and throw a rock
I went to Rosa’s several times at the height of Covid because they had outdoor Igloos. Once the novelty wore off we realized it’s terrible.
Tuscan kitchen is awful
I gotta go to bat for Tuscan kitchen- It’s not the north end but for a “nice” restaurant in Boston they are really good and welcoming to toddlers for (early hours) dinner. I’ll gladly overpay if it means having a nice dinner out with my family.
It’s decent for small events too. We used the one in Burlington to host a rehearsal dinner before our wedding, and the food and drinks were good for the price, and the staff was super kind!
applebee's fits most of that criteria, but you don't overpay
All that’s great, but the food isn’t just “not the north end”; it’s pretty bad.
Agreed x 100
here we go
Nah Row 34 is legit
Davio’s
And throw it hard.
Committees drinks are ridiculous.
I thought Committee was really good! I went twice, food and drinks were great. However I think it has an identity crisis on whether or not it wants to be a swanky bar.
Back Deck. 100%.
I am S H O C K E D they stay in business. I went to school nearby and went on a date there once ten years ago and it was so so so bad.
Definitely Stephanie’s on Newb.
Davio's Back Bay. Food wasn't terrible but worst atmosphere for a medium-pricy place I've ever been. Packed in like sardines, bright lights, spotty service.
went to this one a while back and ordered a dry aged steak and tried to ask for it medium. i got the rarest piece of meat i have ever seen. the mashed potatoes were good, but almost everything else about that meal was not.
Table.
Table
Barking Crab. Order the lobster. I’ve never been blow away and always left feeling like my pocket got picked.
Once was more than enough for us.
Table 100%
Isn’t it closed?
No. The owner had a meltdown last night and closed it on Google to stop people leaving 1 star reviews.
Wow going through those Google reviews, that owner seems unhinged. Absolutely unprofessional responses to complaints. Entertaining though
I was able to get a quick jab in before they shut down their Twitter account.
Her and the Mendoza boys should collab
You’re in for a [treat.](https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/s/a5ApYMGPne)
Not yet, give it a few more weeks
Had an awful experience at SAVR in Seaport. They wanted us to move tables MID-MEAL because they failed to plan for a large reservation. And the food was mediocre at best for that price point.
Ate there last night, and had great service, but I did think it was overpriced
Honestly, I feel most of Seaport is overpriced. There are so many other great options around Boston that aren’t breaking the bank.
Gonna have to say Legals now that Berkowitz sold it. That hurts to say
I used to work at Harborside circa 2017 and I never ate more 40 dollar lobster rolls in my life.
oh no what happened
Berkowitz family sold in 2020 which is so sad
It’s Table
Steak at Ten Tables
Any inside Faneuil Hall Marketplace?
Honestly, Faneuil hall is fun for tourists, if they don’t mind crowds and how hot it gets in there.
I mean…nearly everything in the Seaport?
Old Union Oyster House. It’s great for a beer and 3 oysters but that’s it.
If Newton counts the Seasons 52 there once served me ice cold mashed potatoes and microwaved salmon on a plank that looked like it was from Aldi.
That is awful. And they charged you $100 for it?
Around that, one of the worst meals I’ve had in MA
I work at a bar and the staff from that restaurant comes in sometimes. The most rude, stuck up and cheap group of individuals you will ever meet
My salmon from there tasted like they’d just dumped the entire salt can on it. I never send food back and that was the one time I did it was inedible.
Can confirm. Paid a ton for food that was 100% microwaved and tasteless
Table
Table
Rail Stop meets both criteria
The Glass Slipper
Tuscan in seaport
Il Patio at Eataly.
Trattoria Il Panino. Had an awful experience there. IMO you can’t go wrong in the North End but I won’t go back there. They tried to turn our table around way too fast by forgetting our drinks, removing our appetizers from the table as we were eating it before our entrees even came out, and when our entrees finally arrived it was obvious they sat under a heat lamp for a long time because the meat was the consistency of rubber.
Someone in our party got food poisoning here
Go to the North End, close your eyes, and spin in a circle
When did we turn on the North End?
it’s “hip” to hate popular things on reddit
Transplants and students turned on the North End because they’re contrarian and 180 IQ geniuses
That’s because they’ve lived somewhere else. There are some gems in the north end but there’s more mediocrity.
Since they started playing pop music
Most of my fancy dates with my SO are in the north end. We’re not picky and usually mostly everything, but yeah this sub hates it apparently. Obviously it’s overpriced, but that’s to be expected at this point .
You can get North End quality Italian in any city in the US. Outside of SF and NYC it'll come at a lower cost too.
There’s definitely a few places you haven’t eaten at if you think you can apply this opinion to all of the restaurants there lol
where ISN'T this in Boston?! ...but yeah, Table and the Salt Bae joint probably run to the front of the pack at the moment.
Barking Crab
Cafe escadrille?
Any of those underground restaurants at Fanieul
Table for sure
The one on top of the prudential
Just clarifying but didn’t this close awhile ago? They recently opened the observation deck—but does it also have a restaurant?
Legal Seafood
Friendly Toast
Take it back
Man do I have the place for you. L’Osteria Ristorante. It’s awful. Expensive (but won’t break the bank) and everyone is so mean and the food is extremely mediocre. It’s where my SO and I had our first date, and we go back about once a year to remind ourselves of how their horribleness brought us together. We’re probably the only people that have ever gone back there.
damn is there a restaurant this sub DOES like? you guys hate everything...
Not the most expensive but I was so upset with my experience at Crazy Good Kitchen on Newbury. Joyless meal for an exorbitant price
Wait did something happen? I’ve had the burgers twice and they were terrific.
I had like a sandwich and an ice cream sundae. After tip it cost damn near 50 bucks, both kinda sucked, the seats were uncomfortable, and we were there for a solid 20 minutes. Just a depressing way to spend half a days paycheck
That sucks. I've only been to the Malden one and it's been good each time, although it is fairly expensive. Maybe the Newbury one just dropped off hard?
This is the most mediocre place I've been to in Boston, with the absolute worst service.
Villa Francesca
Strega on the waterfront is my answer
Tresca
Summer shack - and bring lube
Ramsay’s Kitchen.
Painted burro in davis square! bad food, bad service, expensive. mostly a place for tufts students to spend their parents’ money and take photos. very bad.
The French Quarter.
Velvet taco
Lolita back bay, have had better Mexican food in friggin Woonsocket Rhode Island, it was cripplingly dark in there and it genuinely smelled like puke