As restaurants close during these hard economic times, we started thinking about places we remember because of the good food and atmosphere. All too many are only a memory.
People still talk about Giovanni’s, an Italian place that was on Rt. 9. Union House was another legendary Italian eatery. Marconi’s of Ashland another, briefly semi-reincarnated as Marconi’s II on Rt. 9.
Then there is signature food: Once upon a time was the South Framingham Doughnut, and more recently, the jelly stick doughnuts at Tasty Donut in Pinefield Shopping Center.
What local restaurants and foods of today are memorable and the stuff of future “legend?”
We would miss the freshly baked pita bread at Pizza Wagon in Saxonville and the antipasto salad at the Villa in Wayland.
Any other nominations?
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One response to “Tastes of Old”
How many out there in their younger days ended up at, in the wee hours of the morning, Bickfords, or IHop or whatever it was called in the past. The atmosphere of half baked college kids, half drunk singles just back from the local singles dance and the night owls gave the place a group holding cell feel about it. The food was what anyone expects at 2 AM, but the waitresses were always pleasant.
How about Ground Round… their salads were humongous and the kids loved throwing peanut shells on the floor.