As evidenced by the strain on my elastic waistband, it is easy to get groceries or a restaurant meal delivered to your home during this pandemic. But, eventually, the waistband breaks and you wish someone would deliver you a belt — or, at least, window shades. Now, a new Lawrence company is open for that wide-ranging type of delivery.
Carried Out got its start in Albuquerque, N.M., earlier this year but ...
Chicken-or-egg questions have never been that difficult for me. The answer seems obvious: Both, fried, please. But downtown does have a slightly more difficult which-comes-first type of question. Does downtown need more residential development in order to get more office development, or does it need more office development to get more residential development?
“Will they live down here if they don’t have ...
Obviously, a perfect place to locate a carryout barbecue restaurant would be next to a U-Haul store. (There is only so much brisket you can fit in a trunk.) But a local businessman is betting that downtown Lawrence will be a great place too.
A barbecue joint with the very utilitarian name Wed-Sat BBQ is set to open at 733 New Hampshire St. in the next one to two weeks, owner Kevin Augustus told me.
Augustus ...
A time machine with a dial labeled “pre-pandemic” would be welcome about now. One that comes with tacos would be even better. That’s not quite what is set to happen on Massachusetts Street, but it is close. La Parrilla plans to reopen its Mexican and Latin American-style restaurant after about a three-year hiatus.
What’s more, the new La Parrilla will be much more similar to its original version — a ...
They call New Jersey the Garden State, and I now have reason to believe the produce comes out of the ground already battered and deep fried. At least I’m hopeful of it after learning more about a New Jersey-style sandwich shop that is coming to downtown Lawrence.
Fat Shack is scheduled to open in late September or early October at 1008 Massachusetts St., which is the spot that formerly housed the Ondori ...
