Category Archives: Food & Entertaining

April 18, 2012 · 10:09 am

Boston Giveaway: Pop Up Dinner for Two at Barrio by Chef Wheeler del Torro

What: Barrio A pop-up dinner party
Who: Chefs Wheeler del Torro + Matt Drummond
When: Saturday, April 28th at 9 p.m.
Where: Boston (We’ll tell you where if you win!)

Matt Drummond, chef de cuisine at Brasserie Jo, is joining forces with Chef Wheeler del Torro next Saturday night at Boston’s latest clandestine pop-up restaurant, Barrio.

TO ENTER: “Like” StyleCarrot on Facebook AND leave a comment below noting if you’ve ever had Afro-Cuban cuisine. Be sure we can easily get in touch with you since the dinner is next Saturday. Opportunity to enter ends this Sunday at midnight Boston time.

Chef Wheeler del Torro

Jamaican-born Wheeler del Torro is best known in Boston for Wheeler’s Catering & Frozen Dessert Co., his vegan and liquor-laced ice cream company, though these hearty dinners will fuse Afro-Cuban flavors with each guest chef’s cooking style.
Past Barrio dinners have included slow-cooked yuca with citrus-garlic sauce, a ragout with a trio of mushrooms, sweet peppers, and tomatoes, corn cakes with a guava glaze and grilled pineapple,  black and white truffle crostini, and spicy white truffle squash soup.

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December 2, 2010 · 4:00 pm

Holidays: Areaware Menorah

Today is the first day of Chanukah.

Cast Iron Menorah designed by Josh Owen

$150 at Areaware

 

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November 30, 2010 · 6:41 pm

Storefronts: Todd English’s CurlyCakes Cupcakes Coming to Beacon Hill

There’s a new cupcake shop in town that is sure to give Sweet some competition.

Todd English and his daughter Izzy, a senior in high school, will finally be debuting the Beacon Hill shop dedicated to the cupcakes he created and named after her, Isabelle’s CurlyCakes. The storefront is at 81 Charles Street (formerly Ritz Camera), and like Sweet, the décor balances sweet and strong shades of pink and brown.

The space, designed by architect Andrew Falkenstein of Brookline-based Concise Design Architects, is pretty darn cute. Falkenstein, together with project designer Jennifer Glickman infuses the traditional Beacon Hill feel with modern sentiment. Just three paint colors are used  – Benjamin Moore White Chocolate, Strawberry, and Fresh Brew. The countertops are Carrera marble and the floors are porcelain tile done to resemble old, wood planks. The backsplash behind the counter is back-painted so it can double as a menu board. And for the bathroom (teeny, tiny, as it goes on Beacon Hill), there are pink penny round tiles.

A photo accent wall, which faces opposite the counter, will showcase photos of the neighborhood and cupcakes, shot by Isabelle. The photos are interchangeable,   mounted between integral paneling/picture framing.

As for the cupcakes, the emphasis is on wholesome. The menu on the website touts six flavors: Tahitian vanilla bean, Valrhona chocolate, carrot cake with vanilla cream cheese frosting, toasted coconut, southern red velvet, light and fluffy lemon with pomegranate vanilla frosting.

Maybe if I wish really hard someone will deliver a taste to my doorstep.

Concise Design Architects, Andrew Falkenstein, AIA

 

Concise Design Architects, Andrew Falkenstein, AIA

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September 19, 2010 · 2:45 pm

Um, Yum: The Chocolate Bar at The Langham Hotel

It’s now a fall tradition. Julie Shamrock, Communications Manager at The Langham Hotel in downtown Boston, invited me to another round at the Chocolate Bar in Cafe Fleuri. It was as amazing as ever. Chocolate crepes with fresh raspberries and creme fraiche, chocolate croissant bread pudding, a chocolate fountain . . .  An upscale Willy Wonka experience. This year’s theme is The Five Elements, so there is sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and savory. Here are some photos of you need more temptation.

poached pears and bleu cheese tarte

chocolate stuffed soft pretzel

white chocolate strawberry parfait

milk chocolate pumpkin torte

dulce de leche

macaroons

cotton candy

truffle toppings

the truffle chefs

Chocolate Bar, Saturday (September 11 – June 25), 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., adults: $38, children 5-12 years old: $25.

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July 12, 2010 · 9:43 am

Storefront: Boston Cupcake News

Sweet, Newbury Street

Sweet is now open on Newbury, and it’s just as sweet as the Mass. Ave. and Harvard Square shops. Same pretty wallpaper (Studio Printworks Grille Modern in a custom pink) and fixings – design compliments of Annsley McAleer. My son and I popped in on the way home from a friend’s on Saturday night. Though I wasn’t splurging on an 8pm cupcake, we indulged in frosting shots (him vanilla, me cream cheese) for fifty cents each. Genius.

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Treat cupcakes

While we’re on a sugar high . . . there’s another new cupcakery in town. Well, not really in town, it’s out in Needham, but it sounds so amazing that I’m almost tempted to make the drive. (Almost, not actually. Hoping Sam at Marlo Communications, their PR agency, will import a cupcake to the Back Bay.)  It’s Treat Cupcake Bar and the concept is make-your-own cupcake.  I put in my order for a chocolate cupcake with buttercream frosting and a chocolate covered pretzel topping.

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