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The latest Rhode Island food and dining news.
Compiled by Brooke White
February 2012
Blount Fine Foods recently announced that they will be opening Blount Clam Shack and Soup Bar in Providence in early spring. The new restaurant, located at 371 Richmond St., will offer a wide range of sandwiches and salads to delight both seafood lovers and those who are not.
Rhode Island’s only rock and roll dueling piano bar, Point Street Dueling Pianos, recently opened where the jazz club, Hi-Hat, once operated in Providence. The new bar offers food, drinks and live entertainment for guests at least twenty-one years old. According to general manager Michael Mourachian, the show is very interactive and guests are encouraged to participate and request songs.
Mosaic Latin American Bar just announced that they will be closed for renovations until April. During the remodeling, they will continue to provide catering services to customers.
Leadership Rhode Island Executive Director Mike Ritz and Garrison Confections owner Andrew Shotts have teamed up to create the “Save Chocolateville” dark chocolate bar. Proceeds from the $5 candy bars will go to help Rhode Island’s smallest and most financially unstable city, Central Falls, which was once a hub for chocolate production. You can buy them at Whole Foods University Heights ,601 N. Main St. in Providence, through Easter. Find out more here.
Liquor and food licenses were recently granted to a new Italian restaurant, Venezia, which will be opening this spring on Jefferson Boulevard in Warwick in the old Bugaboo Creek Steakhouse building.
The British Beer Company is coming to Rhode Island! With a dozen restaurants open in Cape Cod and southeastern Massachusetts, the chain will be coming to Bristol sometime in February or March and moving into the property that was once the Anchor restaurant at 29 State St. They will be serving authentic British pub food with dishes such as Guinness stout onion soup and bangers and mash.
Flat Waves, a Hawaiian-style restaurant in Middletown, will be expanding and adding indoor seating for twenty-five to thirty people. They are expecting to reopen in April.
A liquor license was recently approved for the new Asian Gourmet that will be coming to Tiverton. Formerly Alchedo’s Pizza, the new restaurant will be located at 1715 Stafford Rd.
Simply Devine, a catering business owned by Janet and Peter Devine, recently expanded and opened a restaurant, also called Simply Devine, in the former Nathaniel Porter Inn in Warren.
Gracie’s pastry chef Melissa Denmark, a 2010 Johnson and Wales graduate, was recently nominated for Food and Wine magazine’s first-ever “People’s Best New Pastry Chef” award. The winner will be announced on foodandwine.com on Feb. 15 and will be featured in the May issue of the magazine. Vote for her now through Feb. 14 by clicking here.
Culinary Calendar
2/20
Kids are Cooking!
If your kids are interested in cooking, Hotel Providence has designed an event for children to learn about food. While they are cooking, they will sample food and learn about their own taste buds. At the end of the day, every child will take home a goodie bag and an apron that they will have decorated during the afternoon. Tickets $40. 193 Matthewson St., Providence. For more info, click here or call 490-8144.
2/21
Newport Cooks: Rhode Island’s Coastal Riches
Join Chef Richard Allaire as he teaches the class several ways to cook different kinds of Rhode Island fish using fog and steam. After taking the class, students should be able to take the skills home to their own kitchens. $55 per student. 796 Aquidneck Ave., Middletown. For more info, click here or call 293-0740.
2/22
Crash Course in Composting
Learn all about composting in the greenhouse at the Wintertime Farmers Market in Pawtucket. Master composter Rachel Chiartas of the Rhode Island Resource Recovery will show you how. Free. Wintertime Farmers Market, 1005 Main St., Pawtucket. For more info, click here.
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