1. 6/21/09 11:15 PMWe tell ourselves stories in order to live: Bostonist: Tupelo and Sip Cafe now open
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S A T U R D A Y , A P R I L 2 5 , 2 0 0 9
Bostonist: Tupelo and Sip Cafe now open
Two new spots opened this week. I wrote about both for Bostonist.
Tupelo is a new Southern
comfort food restaurant in
Inman Square. The reporting
process for this was very Web
2.0: the week before it opened, I
put a note about it on our go2
Twitter account,
@go2foodnews (which you
can follow by clicking on the
link to the right - hint hint). In
the tweet, I referenced their
Twitter account (@tupelo01239), which had a lot of good
information up already about the restaurant-in-progress.
Then, @Tupelo02139 hit me back, thanking me for the coverage with
an @ reply that referenced our feed. Impressed by the speed of their
reaction, I direct-messaged Tupelo for more information, and found
out that the voice behind Tupelo's Twitter feed is Jen Deaderick, the
wife of Tupelo's opening chef -- who happens to be Rembs Layman,
the chef who created the delicious menus I've been eating for years at
Matt Murphy's and Pomodoro, where my friend Aaron has been
bartending on and off for a long time. She passed along Layman's
email, and he passed along the new menu (now viewable on
Facebook), which looks, well, exactly the way a menu would look if
the chef of those two restaurants decided to open a Southern spot. It's
still rich, textured, crumbly, comforting, marinated, slow-cooked, and
seafood-savvy, with fried oysters and green tomatoes in place of
Pomodoro's delicate Italian calamari and Matt Murphy's hearty Irish
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2. 6/21/09 11:15 PMWe tell ourselves stories in order to live: Bostonist: Tupelo and Sip Cafe now open
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Pomodoro's delicate Italian calamari and Matt Murphy's hearty Irish
fish & chips.
Now thoroughly excited (albeit with a twinge of wistful regret, as the
menu's not terribly veggie-friendly), I wrote up a post on Bostonist
about the new place, which then made its way to Twitter via our RSS
feed, which was then re-tweeted by Deaderick, who then thanked me
for the coverage via Twitter direct message.
Moral of the story? We're getting great traffic from this, and so is
Tupelo. And traffic, my friends, means we both stay in business. It's a
win-win without any ethical compromises -- the only thing that's been
exchanged is friendly words and timely information. So, for those
writers among you who are still crowing, "Why should I use Twitter?
What's it good for? I am cantankerous and contrary and feel that
mocking this relatively innocuous bit of technology is far more
important than researching real and useful information for my
readers!" I say to you: this kind of thing is what makes Twitter useful.
But please, if you're still on the fence, I encourage you to stay there --
because food journalism is becoming very competitive in this town,
and if I can maintain an edge using this tool while you go on about its
inherent narcissism and pointlessness and degrading effect on the
English language, etc. etc., I can more easily scoop you.
--
Speaking of which, I am fairly
sure I scooped the Globe this
week (although Thrillist scooped
me first, sigh) when I wrote
about Sip Cafe, which just
opened in the old Z Square
space in Post Office Square. This
location has been my go-to
summer lunch spot since my
days as an intern at the Boston Business Journal. It has a nice little
patio and is located directly inside the beautiful grassy oasis that is
Post Office Square, where Financial District work-bots can pick up a
cushion to sit on the ground without mussing their suits and skirts, as
they listen to live jazz or flamenco under the shady trees and trellis-
covered walkways.
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3. 6/21/09 11:15 PMWe tell ourselves stories in order to live: Bostonist: Tupelo and Sip Cafe now open
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I was surprised when Milk Street Cafe vacated the space and again
when Z Square took off earlier this year. But I'm happy to see that
Jared Mancini, the new owner of Sip Cafe, has snapped up the space
and brought his sustainable/local take on the coffeeshop concept to
the Financial District. Service is still a little shaky -- we went as a
group on opening day and agreed we'd give it another month or two
before we returned for anything like a real meal. But the drinks are on
point (Mancini slung coffee on Newbury for a while before opening
this place) and the location, as I said, cannot be beat. I may return
next week, now that the weather in Boston is approaching the 80-
degree mark!
Photo of stove via Tupelo; photo of Sip Cafe by Kerry Skemp.
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