[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” [...]
Wine Stains 4/25/11: Highs + Lows with Mr. Hill
Please join Seth Hill of Alchemy Wine and the staff of Journeyman on Monday April 25 at our second installment of Wine Stains, a monthly wine dinner where the drinks get all the attention. Seating, at communal tables, is available at 6:00, 7:00, and 8:00pm. This time, we’ve paired the pairings; each course will be [...]
Wine Stains, March 7: Storied Wines
Our first dinner is upon us, and the menu has been settled. We are looking forward to a house full of friends tonight, not to mention delicious wines and foods. As promised, here’s the full menu: Rabbit Confit Tortellino with Eric Bordelet “Poiré Authentique†sparkling perry; Normandy, France Early Spring Salad with Ariana Occhipinti “SP68 [...]
Digesting the reviews
While restaurants thrive on the big newspaper reviews that get laminated and hung on walls and we’ve gotten our fair share (see our press page for a summary of them), we read all the reviews we can find, especially citizen reviews. We look for write-ups on personal blogs, micro-reviews on twitter and facebook, and of [...]