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davis_squareIn the January issue of Boston Magazine, way in the back (on page 134), in a little section called "Table Talk," there's a three-paragraph blurb about Pho Republique's Jack Bardy and his newest venture, a "funky, hip authentic Asian restaurant" and bar which will be called the Kowtow Lounge. It will serve dim sum, Vietnamese appetizers, and "Asian beers and tropical cocktails including mai tais, Saigon slings and lychee martinis."
That in itself is cool enough. But it's opening later this winter in the Porter Exchange Mall! It's going into the space that's housed, since mid-2000, first a Cottonwood Grill, then Métro and, most recently, Giuseppe's, which closed sometime this summer. It's about time the Porter Exchange got an Asian-themed bar! Because that's what it really needed to go in that space. It's an Asian mall, more or less, it needed an Asian bar...not a French bistro.
I post this here (in slightly different form than in my journal), because I discovered Giuseppe's through this community, and I thought those of you who recommended that place would be interested in the latest incarnation.
That in itself is cool enough. But it's opening later this winter in the Porter Exchange Mall! It's going into the space that's housed, since mid-2000, first a Cottonwood Grill, then Métro and, most recently, Giuseppe's, which closed sometime this summer. It's about time the Porter Exchange got an Asian-themed bar! Because that's what it really needed to go in that space. It's an Asian mall, more or less, it needed an Asian bar...not a French bistro.
I post this here (in slightly different form than in my journal), because I discovered Giuseppe's through this community, and I thought those of you who recommended that place would be interested in the latest incarnation.
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Date: 2004-01-13 08:04 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-01-14 06:29 am (UTC)I fully agree. I actually went in the PEM for the first time a few weeks ago, and noticed the Asian theme...is there any reason anyone knows of for this?
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Date: 2004-01-14 06:46 am (UTC)I suspect that it may be owned by Japanese. There is a fair number of Japanese and Koreans in this area; there's a large Korean market in Union Square, another Japanese market and a Korean grocery in Central Square, and across from the Porter Exchange there's a large Japanese bookstore. And there are several Korean/Japanese restaurants in the Union/Central/POrter area.
Which, I suppose, is reason enough.
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Date: 2004-01-14 07:05 am (UTC)