I'm not all that excited.
"With Oysteria, Legal goes Italian route; With tough act to follow in Olives, restaurant prepares for launch" by Taryn Luna | Globe Correspondent July 15, 2014
The new restaurant in Charlestown’s City Square has yet to serve a meal to the public, but the place already has a history. It occupies the space that for years was home to celebrity chef Todd English’s signature restaurant, Olives, which has been dark for more than year.
On Wednesday, the lights will come back on as Roger Berkowitz unveils his latest “one-off” neighborhood establishment, Legal Oysteria. The chief executive of the massively popular Legal Sea Foods chain says it will be followed at summer’s end by yet another restaurant, Legal on the Mystic, at Assembly Row in Somerville.
Both are part of an effort by the company to diversify and attract a wider range of customers.
In Charlestown, Berkowitz has tossed out the standard Legal menu — which features baked, fried, and grilled fish dishes — and replaced it with light coastal Italian cuisine cooked in a brick oven.
“We don’t want to mimic something that is already out there,” he said. “We want to be as authentic and unique as possible.”
He’s also keenly aware of the site’s storied and tumultuous history. When English opened Olives in 1989, it revolutionized the local food scene....
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I will definitely be skipping lunch.
Look what came with the check:
"Russell Stover was founded in 1923 in Denver by Russell and Clara Stover, who originally marketed their product under the name Mrs. Stover’s Bungalow Candies. The Stover family sold the business in 1960 to Louis L. Ward, who expanded the Russell Stover brand across the United States.
The company’s gift boxes were made famous in the film “Forrest Gump,” in which the title character, played by Tom Hanks, says “My mama always said, life was like a box of chocolates: You never know what you’re gonna get.”
WTF?
Idiot never looked at the inside of a lid?
Problem with propaganda is we know what we're gonna get.
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More confectionary consolidation in the corporate chocolate business, 'eh?
