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Category Archives: Restaurants
NECN reviews Wellesley’s Bobby’s Grille
NECN awards Bobby’s Grille in Wellesley a Gold Plate for generally delicious food (they especially liked the Boston Cream Pie and other desserts) and a fun atmosphere. The reviewer felt a little rushed and said the service was pleasant but not super efficient. See the video.
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Wellesley’s Milestone restaurant set to open
Wellesley’s newest restaurant, the Milestone at 13 Central St., is opening for lunch on Dec. 27, according to its website (though we could swear we saw a sign in their window saying Dec. 28….so one or the other). They’re located in Vidalia’s old spot.
The restaurant, which will feature Southern European cooking, will be open for [...]
Wellesley's Milestone restaurant making progress
The Milestone restaurant, going into the spot previously occupied by Vidalia’s on Central St. in Wellesley, has added a spiffy new sign. It’s also hiring.
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Upper Crust Pizzeria, appropriately enough, coming to Wellesley
The Upper Crust Pizzeria is going to move into the old Score! location at 99 Central St., adding to more than a dozen locations across the state. Upper Crust actually hinted to us during the spring that it would love to find a spot in Wellesley. The goal is to open the restaurant in 2010. [...]
Wellesley's Bobby's Grille reviewed
The blog “The Passionate Foodie” feasts at Wellesley’s new Bobby’s Grille and comes away satisfied with a duck breast dish and a mac & cheese and lobster dish, among other things.
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Brigham's melting down, but Wellesley's store hangs in
(UPDATE: The store owner late in the week acknowledged Brigham’s in Wellesley is closing after all…)
The company that owns 13 Brigham’s ice cream shops/restaurants is expected to file for bankruptcy protection today according to the Boston Globe and other news outlets, and has already been closing its shops, but another dozen or so independently-owned Brigham’s [...]
Meals tax, new retaining wall rules a go in Wellesley
Town Meeting members approved both a .75% tax on restaurant bills starting in the new year and an amended zoning bylaw designed to make retaining walls safer, shorter and less ugly.
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New Wellesley restaurant: We've got your goat
Am embarrassed to say we initially overlooked this unique aspect of Wellesley’s new Singh’s Cafe: it is offering goat meat in several varieties, including Goat Biryani and Goat Curry. Reader LK poiints out their slogan should be “The Only Place in Wellesley for Goat.”
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Update on Bobby's in Wellesley
The word from the Walsh family is that Bobby’s American Grille in lower falls on the Wellesley/Newton line will be opening its doors in the next few weeks, with final inspection and permits expected next week. The restaurant initially was expected to open in late summer.
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Tart frozen yogurt — it's breaking news
So says fellow Wellesley blogger Abby Glassenberg. She wrote to us to let us know that Rosie’s on Central St. in Wellesley Square has swapped out gelato for Christina’s homemade ice cream of Inman Square fame as well as “Pinkberry-style” tangy frozen yogurt.
“If you are not familiar with this type of frozen yogurt it tastes [...]
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Wellesley restaurant revival: Milestone to replace Vidalia's
A sign in the window of what was Vidalia’s restaurant in Wellesley Square trumpets the coming of a new place called Milestone (does sound more upscale than the old diner).
Vidalia’s shut down in January of 2008, and owner Mitchell Maxwell said in interviews shortly afterward that he was working with investors to open a new [...]
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Wellesley's Maugus restaurant gets down to business
Little known/little cared about fact: The Swellesley Report sorta got its start at a business meeting at The Maugus restaurant on Washington Street. We had started the blog just to document some local sledding hills, but a breakfast conversation with a business contact at Maugus really got us thinking more about expanding the site to [...]
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Bobby on Bobby's, Wellesley's newest restaurant
The pizza joints crowding the Lower Falls end of Wellesley will be glad to hear this about Bobby’s American Grille, the restaurant slated to open in mid-August at 11 Washington Street: No pizza.
“I think that we will distinguish ourselves as the choice for local diners for our home-made recipes, beautiful decor, the fact that there [...]
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Blue Ginger’s Ming Tsai on Why Wellesley?