If you want to know who was naughty or nice in the world of Boston food, you have to read MC Slim JB's end of the year "2009 Devil's Dining Awards." The photo above is of Speed's grilled pastrami which MC gave his "Best doubling of menu options" award.
To get the most flavor for your dining dollars you need his year-end summary of the best places he covered in his "On the Cheap" column for the Boston Phoenix.
Those who follow the local food scene in print and on the internet, have learned that the by-line MC Slim JB leads to wonderful places that they add to their regular dining rotation.
If you don't know MC, you're in for a treat. And, you can consider these links your holiday gift from BostonZest.
Here's MC Slim JB's "Official Intro"
"MC Slim JB is a food/drinks writer who has eaten and drunk his way through most of Boston’s restaurants and bars, from the hoity-toity to the humble, and written about them for travel website Gayot.com, Maxim Magazine, Boston Magazine, and Boston’s Weekly Dig. A world traveler (80+ countries so far), former server and bartender, and amateur cook, MC is notable for starting the world’s 10 billionth food blog, http://mcslimjb.blogspot.com/ .
His hobbies include collecting vintage barware, lampooning the Phantom Gourmet, and posting on Chowhound.com, where Stuff Magazine discovered him and gave him his first professional food-writing gig in 2005. He now writes Stuff's bi-weekly Food Coma column on fine-dining restaurants, occasional cover features, and its annual Dining Awards, as well as the weekly On the Cheap column for The Boston Phoenix on budget-priced restaurants. A New England native, he lives as he has most of his life in Boston."
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Photo: © 2009 Penny Cherubino
Here's the link to the Devil's Dining Award:
http://mcslimjb.blogspot.com/2009/12/2009-devils-dining-awards.html
Here's a link to his year-end summary of the best places he covered in his "On the Cheap" column for the Boston Phoenix.
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Food/94946-2009-The-year-in-cheap-eats/
