New England Food Critic

Have not had a chance to check them out yet but let me know! http://www.jerichocafeandtavern.com/

The Village Cup located in Jericho, VT is the perfect vision of a Vermont breakfast place. The restaurant is a bit confusing; as you walk in you are greeter by a hostess (usually) and you can either be seated at one of the tables, or order from their extensive beverage list and get a pastry to go. My company and I opted to sit down at a table and try the menu. We were seated at a very small table near the small fireplace but the gorgeous picturesque window overlooking the backyard and the mountains.  As stated, the tables are small and very close together - something that we morning people are not very happy with before our first cup of coffee in the morning. The multiple times I have been here, the service has not been very good and this morning was no exception. Our waitress was a young girl who never told us the specials and barely paid attention as we ordered our beverages. A few minutes later she came back and told companion #1 that his beverage order could not be made because so

This restaurant has permanently closed showing once again that poor service, expensive food, and limited menus are not welcomed in any city!

The Holy Grail can be found in an unusual location of Epping, NH. Epping has always been a poorer part of NH (though some people will disagree, especially those that live there) and very few choices for places to eat. Enter the Holy Grail; this restaurant - and now adjacent function hall - is located inside a renovated church with amazing picturesque displays, paintings on the wall, and comfortable furniture.  The service from the hostess, to the waitstaff, to the bartenders is always pleasant and attentive. I recently stopped by here for a drink and a salad but have been here a number of times. They make the best Dark 'N Stormy around! Happy Hour has 1/2 priced appetizers, they serve Guinness on draft at $4 and even hold a pretty competitive game of Trivia on Tuesday nights. Their salads are enormous; I had the Cobb salad is definitely "piled high" as their menu reads and there is no lack of meat in it either.  Their french onion soup is never too salty and has

Chef Barbara Lynch and her vision never fail to impress me. My companion and I decided to pop into The Butcher Shop on Tremont Street in Boston one night for some steak and wine; we actually had a gift certificate and wanted to use it up :) and we are sure glad we did! I am a steak and potatoes kind of gal and this restaurant was right up my alley. My companion and I were seated immediately upon arrival on the high top bar stools facing the wall of windows that overlooks the streets around Tremont - perfect for people watching and ambiance. The restaurant is absolutely perfect - white linens, sparkling glasses, clean bar, and attentive servers that knew the menu through and through. Our waiter started us off with water poured AWAY from us (something all restaurants should do!!!) and made some comments on the weather and the beautiful night. He recommended a wine and explained his favorite starter. Once he was finished we had to have it -  the artisan cheeses and accoutrements. Th

Cremeland (as the name states) makes you think of ice cream but this place is a lot more. Yes, they have ice cream. Homemade in fact (none of that Blake's crap that some, no names mention GoldenRod, try to pass off like their own homemade ice cream) made by one of the owners himself; the recipe created and followed since the day they first opened more than four decades ago. The flavors change, sometimes based on customer or employee suggestions, and sometimes just with the freshest ingredients that are available when a new batch is ready to be made. And yes, this is the same Cremeland that you may have seen on TV when a show was done about the unbelievably delicious fried dough ice cream sundae. But this review is more than about their ice cream. This small drive-in restaurant is not in the best part of Manchester, NH. Yes, the outside is not always clean and easy to look at but the owners of Cremeland are constantly washing down the order windows, the outside eating tables, and e