This year, Journeyman is starting to get cheesy. There’s 2 big pieces to this development: 1. Cheese service at Journeyman. As you may know, we’ve been running cheese boards over at backbar for a long while now, and we’ve very much enjoyed keeping several amazing cheeses on hand for the bar menu. We’ve been working [...]
What’s with your wine list? Part I, the philosophy
People often ask me “what’s with your wine list?” and I can see three easy ways to answer that: the first is about the philosophy that coheres each wine and the printed format into a perspective; the second and third are about each of those components, our unconventional layout, and the individual wines we source. [...]
Catherine Owens: Chalkboard Menus and Art
At Journeyman, we hire for some alchemy of personality and skill: people with a million passions and skill sets, the dilettantes of the world, usually thrive here. That means we have gathered a set of incredibly multi-talented staff. From semi-professional musicians and carpenters who also cook, to folks with graduate degrees like Masters of Public [...]
The Garden at Journeyman: A “Petite Histoire”
[Please welcome Andrea Hasselbacher, Journeyman's resident gardner & one of our servers, for a short visit to our gardens. -Meg] One of the first things people notice about Journeyman is often the vertical garden and large glass window standing out against the brick and the parking lot. The wooden wine crates and foliage add a [...]
Monday, January 30th: The Federal Wine & Journeyman Restaurant Wine Seminar; Bordeaux’s Left Bank
Bordeaux’s Left Bank Monday January 30, 2012 @ 6:00pm 9 Sanborn Court, Union Square Somerville, MA 02143 Reservations (617) 718-2333 or eat@journeymanrestaurant.com In the year 1154 Eleanor of Aquitaine married Henry II of England, bringing as her dowry much of southwest France. This led to several hundred years of war between England and France and [...]
Raising Full Glasses: A tribute dinner to Joe Dressner
Real wine. It’s what we pour every night at Journeyman, and it’s what we drink on our own time. Real wine is wine that tastes like the earth and grapes from which it comes and like the yeast and people who interact with it. Real wine is honest, beautiful, tasty, and – luck of luck! [...]
Journeyman’s First Birthday
Wednesday night, Diana, Tse Wei, and I sat around my dining table and toasted to Journeyman’s first birthday; Thursday marked one year since we opened our doors to the public. We talked about what our goals had been for year one (at its simplest: run a restaurant), and what we wanted for the following year [...]
OMGWTFBBQ
Journeyman’s become known for artful and eccentric tasting menus: a stream of small plates with food that is not just tasty but also challenging and beautiful. On Saturdays, alongside the Union Square Farmers Market, we’re going to change that. Last Saturday was the first of our Saturday BBQs, aimed at adding another layer of delicious [...]
Mother’s Day Brunch (at dinner time)
We know the traditional way to celebrate mom on Mother’s Day is to take her out to brunch. We also know that breakfast foods are more fun at night (as evidenced by the “breakfast all day” sign in so many of the best diners). In honor of these two truths and of mom, Journeyman is [...]
Employees Must Wash Hands
There is so much that must be said when running a restaurant, from the infinitely variable interchanges with guests to the more precise notifications legally required: “Please inform the waitstaff before ordering if you have a food allergy” “Warning: consuming raw or undercooked meat, poultry, seafood, shellfish or eggs increases your risk of foodborne illness” [...]