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Eater
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Eater
8 Must-Try Restaurant and Bar Openings Around Boston, June 2025
This monthly column highlights notable restaurant openings in and around Boston. Catch up on more news about Boston restaurant openings right here. Know of a new or soon-to-open restaurant that should be on Eater Boston's radar? Get in touch here . Brighton: Bar stars Will Isaza and Jen LaForge have opened a new spot for tacos at the Charles River Speedway. Salsa Shack is slinging 'New England-style' street tacos with options such as braised pork belly, Old Bay butter chicken, and mushroom al pastor, plus sides including corn chowder and guacamole served with Nantucket Crisps. 525 Western Avenue Cambridge: The cheekily named TooHot, a new Sichuan restaurant from the folks behind Noah's Kitchen in Brookline Village, has opened in Harvard Square. Don't miss the mapo stone pot tofu, which showcases the kitchen's skills with málà, the tingly, numbing spices quintessential to Sichuan cooking. 16-18 Eliot Street East Boston: Essential Boston restaurant Taqueria Jalisco has opened a gorgeous new outpost in Orient Heights with a full slate of cocktails, an expanded food menu, and a lot more seating for dine-in customers. 980 Saratoga Street Seaport: Waterfront date-night spot Wood's Hill Pier 4 has opened a more casual sibling next to the restaurant called the Block. Head here for plates of dry-aged meats and fish, pig's ear tots, salmon belly crudo, and more. 300 Pier 4 Boulevard Seaport: New England's premier oyster farm, Island Creek Oysters, opened an outdoor raw bar at the Seaport this month. Come to the Island Creek Raw Bar to slurp oysters and snack on caviar and tinned fish, or order a sushi roll featuring seafood from Boston fish market Red's Best. 99 Autumn Lane South Boston: Kristin Jenkins, the owner behind romantic Beacon Hill restaurant 1928, has opened her second restaurant, the Essex, inside the Cambria Hotel in South Boston. The new spot also includes a rooftop bar and restaurant, the Essex Rooftop, with plenty of picture-perfect views of the Boston skyline. 6 West Broadway South Boston: Crowds are already gathering at Park City, a 30,000 square-foot outdoor space with a restaurant, bar, and lots of family-friendly space to hang out. (Bring the pups, too!) It's all engineered by the team behind Broadway Restaurant Group, which also runs neighborhood hot spots like Lincoln Tavern and Loco Taqueria. 411 Dorchester Avenue Roxbury: New York City-based restaurant chain Xi'an Famous Foods, known for its bouncy hand-pulled noodles, has entered the Boston market with a ghost kitchen in Roxbury. A standalone Downtown Crossing location is coming later this year, the Boston Globe reports. 94 Shirley Street See More: Boston Restaurant Openings
7NEWS
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- 7NEWS
Chicago Mike killed in crash: Kool & the Gang pay tribute to onstage hype man Michael Sumler
Music legend and longtime member of iconic R&B band Kool & the Gang, Michael Sumler has died aged 71. He was killed in a highway car crash at Mableton, in the US state of Georgia, on Sunday, the city Mayor Michael Owens said. 'We are saddened by the death of musician Mike Sumler. 'Chicago Mike' contributed so much to the music and entertainment communities. His style and energy added flare and excitement to Kool & the Gang for decades,' Owen s said. 'I join his friends, family and fans in mourning his loss.' Sumler, also known as 'Chicago Mike', recalled his first meeting with members of Kool & the Gang in 1985, in an interview on the Kelly Talk Show in 2018. Sumler said had been in his own band, Power Pac, before he met one of the Kool & the Gang security guards who introduced him to members of Kool & the Gang who were eager to immediately bring him on board. This was about 20 years after the group first formed as a jazz band known as the Jazziacs — by the late 80s, Kool & the Gang had transformed into a funk, pop, and R&B group in the peak of its popularity. It was already famous for hit songs Emergency, Too Hot, Celebration, Ladies Night, and Get Down On It. Sumler was initially brought on as the band's stylist and hype man, opening their shows with the dance moves and energy he became known for, but he also contributed as a backup singer and choreographer. Robert 'Kool' Bell, is the only surviving founding member of Kool & the Gang, which was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2024 Kool & the Gang also paid tribute to Sumler on X: 'We're deeply saddened to hear about the passing of our longtime wardrobe valet, Mike Sumler.' 'Mike worked alongside Kool & the Gang from 2000-2015, making sure the guys looked their best on stage every night. He also hyped the crowd with his energy and dance moves at the shows.'
