It's got a name, "The Kirkland Tap & Trotter," and it will be a 115-seat restaurant with a menu that reflects "the way I cook at home for my friends and family," according to an email from the Craigie on Main chef.
Tony Maws, chef and owner of the popular Craigie on Main in Cambridge, has announced the name of his new Somerville venture, and he's provided more details about what local food fans can expect. The restaurant will be called "The Kirkland Tap & Trotter," according to an email Maws sent Friday morning to fans of Craigie on Main. The email says the restaurant, in the 425 Washington St. space formerly occupied by Kirkland Cafe, will be a 115-seat eatery with a 12-person bar—about the size of Craigie on Main. Maws wrote, "People have asked me the best way to describe the food and my answer is that it’s the way I cook at home for my friends and family." He added, "I’m designing the menu so that you (and your friends and families) can eat there …
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The chef behind Cambridge's Craigie on Main talked briefly about his new project in Somerville on WBUR's Radio Boston.
"There was another type of food that I always dreamed of cooking," Tony Maws, chef of Cambridge's Craigie on Main, said on WBUR's Radio Boston Tuesday afternoon. "Craigie on Main food is one of the themes that I have, and the other theme is the more rustic food that I cook for my family on Monday nights. It's a little more family style, and still great ingredients," the chef said. That's what restaurant fans can expect when Maws opens his new restaurant in the Somerville space formerly occupied by Kirkland Cafe, which closed in 2007. The new restaurant doesn't have an opening date yet, though it seems work has been taking place at the site. As for the name, "We're still working on it," Maws told the radio show. "We're thinking of using …
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Amy Casey
10:05 am on Saturday, March 16, 2013
Hahahahah. Entrees in the mid 20s is somewhere you can eat often? Hahah. more ›