Tag: Bruce Newbury
Treating restaurant staff as family yields success
As prices come down, producers, purveyors and consumer-facing businesses in the local restaurant scene are adopting coping mechanisms, some of which may become mainstays...
Summer food getaways in Providence and Newport
Providence Restaurant Weeks is getting underway July 9-22. Enjoy two weeks of special dining offers brought to you by the Providence Warwick Convention &...
Weekly food block party launches in Warren
It sounds like the perfect summer evening. A Wednesday gathering with a craft cocktail or mocktail and a freshly fried falafel pocket, Korean corn...
Al fresco, food truck dining are back
The outdoor dining season has gotten underway in fine fashion. The Memorial Day weekend brought spectacular weather to Rhode Island, and terraces, sidewalks, decks...
This celebrity chef cooks for celebrities
Rhode Island has a never-ending variety and seemingly endless source of creators and innovators, or “makers,” who are cooking up something new on an...
Farm system for restaurants
While most of the staffing issues endured by the restaurant and food service industry in Rhode Island have improved, there continue to be labor...
Enhancing the experience
Navigating the twists, turns and cork-pulls of the state’s liquor regulations as they pertain to serving drinks by the glass to accompany food is...
Some menu items have a story to tell
What’s in a name? Quite a bit if that name is over the front door of your favorite restaurant or specialty dish.
Restaurants often are...
New chefs, menu offerings at Castle Hill Inn
Newporters debate about “the season” during this time of the year. Even lifelong residents reluctantly admit the busy period of the year no longer...
David Burke’s newest restaurant to feature steak and seafood at the...
It had been quite some time since I had attended a restaurant opening, so it was a pleasure to attend the grand opening of...
