In July 2022, the Weston Owl covered the grand opening of Weston Provisions, a wonderful sandwich shop/small market in “downtown” Weston. In some weird coincidence of fate, on Thursday this week, the Owl received two phone calls and one email exclaiming “have you been to Weston Provisions? It’s SO GOOD!” which I am cutting down from one message I got
Read moreTravelers on the Route 20 mega-highway through Wayland to Weston and vice versa will have noticed a newcomer restaurant named JINDU at 131 Boston Post Road in Wayland, or as I like to call it “almost-Weston.” JINDU, which translates to Golden City in Chinese, is owned by Weston residents Nick Feng and Claire Huang, and the Owl family checked it
Read moreLast week, the Owl checked in by phone with Mike Leahy, Vice President of Brand and Marketing for Walden Local Meat Co. If you are not familiar with Walden Local, it’s a “whole-animal share program that hand-delivers right to your door.” It is what I short-hand as CSA Meat, which is like CSI Miami except less filled with palm trees.
Read moreAs some of you may recall from your intense scouring of the Owl’s pithy columns, the former Wingate senior living facility has been converted into a substance use treatment facility, named Charles River Recovery. When we last left Norumbega Road, the facility was awaiting final approvals and furniture arrivals. You can read that Owl post here. Fast forward a couple
Read moreYesterday, Weston’s missing piece of the food Wes-saissance, Weston Provisions, opened its doors to the public, with an inviting “Say Cheese” mosaic at its front door and the most beautiful sign in Weston. I demand all other storefronts on that block chip away at the front moulding and see if the glass is underneath there too. Anyway, I digress from
Read moreJune’s “Suburban” Semi-Rural Delivery of deliciousness was a big hit in Weston, and so the Mamaleh’s van is coming back in July AND August! Whoo hoo! Order up! If you have no idea what I am talking about, check out the past post here and start dreaming of knishes. I know I do. No, actually I don’t. Mostly I dream
Read moreOne would think that this Owl is obsessed with nova lox and one would be right about that. This post is to remind you that if you order at Mamaleh’s today or tomorrow until noon, it shall arrive here in semi-rural Weston for pickup between 4-6 pm on Wednesday, June 29. That is right before the concert on the Town
Read moreOne of the things that native New Yorkers miss most about “the city” (and no, Boston is not “the city”) is the food. Now, I admit my foundation as a native New Yorker is a bit wobbly–while I was born at NYU Hospital, and lived in Riverdale for three fantastic but not highly memorable years (I was a bit wee),
Read moreLate last week, the Owl flew down to 75 Norumbega Road and the former Wingate property which is now in the final renovations and approval processes to become Charles River Recovery, a 110-bed clinical detox and clinical stabilization services facility. The Owl got a behind-the-scenes tour from Laura Ames, the recently-named (February 2020) CEO, and wow, what an amazing place
Read moreWith the battle behind us, and just a few left on the battlefield, it’s time for rapprochement, which is French for well, we all live here so might as well make the best of it. No, it means “an establishment or resumption of harmonious relations” and if the word “harmonious” in regards to anything Weston doesn’t make you laugh, you
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