This Is Framingham

Ryan’s Pizza 795 Concord St.

A picture says a thousand words so I’ll let the picture do the talking:

A new restaurant opened up late last year at 91 Hollis Street where Stage One (and the late “Mr. G’s”) used to be.
I gave Ethan a night off and took my friend Phil to try this place.  I’ve never had Brazilian food before.  I thought of trying this place because I was so impressed with the renovation of the space and how they cleaned up the outside alone made it very inviting to me so I thought I’d give it a try.  Inside is nicely decorated with bright, modern colors and tiles.

We were greeted by a Brazilian hostess and then when we sat down, one of the co-owners who is American asked us if we’ve ever been there before.  We said no and he explained how the menu works, you can either order from the menu or get the buffet and explained that meats were available cut-to-order at the buffet as well.
We were feeling like variety would be good so we both got the buffet.

The first part of the buffet offered cold and salad items, the second half was hot dishes including black bean stew, corn meal cakes (that were basically like polenta), okra, stuffing, fried cauliflower and more.
Then at the very end was a carver that cheerfully asked what we’d like from the rotisserie.
In addition to the fried cauliflower, cornmeal, black bean stew and stuffing, I got some (short) beef ribs, some sort of roast beef and chicken wrapped in bacon.

Phil got some different pork selections and requested chicken hearts.  Phil is more adventurous than I am but he said they were great.  They actually didn’t have any on the rotisserie but put some on just for him.

The co-owner came over again to check on us and asked if we had any problem with translation with the carver.  There were a couple of times I squinted and tried to piece together what I was just offered but Phil is good with figuring out broken English. Although, I’ve been known to not even be able understand Australians who are talking to me so I think I’m just accent impaired anyway.  The friendliness of the staff made up for any fear of not understanding but also it was nice to have the owner there caring about any translation problems.
For dessert we split some sort of chocolate/caramel thing that was so rich, even though it was a little bigger than a golf ball we both couldn’t finish it. 

The co-owner came over again during our dessert and we had a nice chat about downtown and how we hope it will move in a more fun direction.

The dinner buffet at $17.95 isn’t cheap but it is all you can eat and that includes meats as well. 

To my shock, yesterday I saw a “For Lease” sign and a note in the window of Hurwitz’s kosher butcher shop.  Yet another business walkable from our house that has closed. ????? ??? ???? ???????   Sometimes it’s so hard to be optimistic about the direction Framingham is going in, there are times where it’s ok, but places like this closing really bum me out. 
Last time I was in there, I was talking to the owner and asked him how business was, he said it’s hard but they manage mostly with orders from Worcester and other places west of Framingham.  It sounded like it was tough but I was hoping they would somehow manage. ?????   I just hope this will be turned into something useful but there was nothing like having a neighborhood butcher shop. 

I bought my first brisket here that I cooked myself (although I had my mom coaching me on the phone) and they were always good for a roast chicken on the way home when I didn’t feel like cooking and somehwere to quickly pick up a challah or a Dr. Brown’s soda.  I’ll miss having this place around. ???? ???
Shalom Hurwitz’s.

I’d like to thank to Karen for pointing out the work being done on the building that was the old Rainbow Buffet, Super Buffet, Scioletti’s, Tony Roma’s etc.. I looked up the work permits and it looks like it will be another restaurant called “Asia Buffet”.  I’m glad something is hapening with this place. agrilabs ivermectin 1.87% paste   I hope they really do some work on the exterior, this building has bothered me for a while. truvada compantible with ivermectin

Walking downtown yesterday, I noticed across from town hall was a freshly installed, promotional mailbox for the 30th anniversary “Star Wars” stamps out later this month.
This is one of 400 droid boxes that have been strategically placed around the country and the USPS has chosen our fair city town as one of the locations. Thanks USPS, nice to see a little treat downtown : )

Maybe R2 will use the “the force” and get downtown in better shape!

I went to check out Fun and Games this weekend.  I haven’t been there in a while since they were doing construction.  I had high hopes for the remodeling, maybe have a “retro” section with old school games for the parents or something.  I was disappointed they got rid of the cool spaceship entrance and just made it a plain, open space. 

Before:

After:

Pretty lame, they don’t even use all this new space for more games just a few vending machines and 3 chairs over to the right.

AND they took away the pinball machines and “Drumscape” the only things I even played there.  I just don’t know what to say. which heartworm preventatives do not contain ivermectin   I don’t understand any of these changes they made.  I will say there are still two machine that play two retro games. I think it’s Ms. Pac-Man with something else I don’t play and a Centipede with Millipede or something that I also don’t play. But, for anyone who likes Ms. Pac-Man and Centipede/Milipede this is a great place to go as I never see anyone on those games so you could have them all to yourself. ivermectina manipulação   All I need is a couple of pinball machines and a Donkey Kong and I could look past them getting rid of the spaceship entrance but there’s just nothing worth playing there (for me). ivermectin and how it affects the p-gp   I guess they are gearing it just to little kids.

I try to keep this blog all things framingham but on this note I’ll say that I hope what I read on Justin’s blog happens and the Good Time Emporium moves in down the street in Natick.  Framingham’s bowling alleys and pool halls have turned into juvenile courts and MRI scanning offices. Fun and Games was my last local amusement.  Unless anyone knows of another “fun” place in Framingham?

 In my internet travels I found an old ad for Rohm and Haas Plexiglas signs for sale on ebay.  The ad boasts that “Three-fourths of the stores at Shopper’s World use Plexiglas signs”.  I remember I did actually wonder what kind of factory could make those humungous letters for the “CINEMA” sign.

This ad was interesting because of what seems to be the presence of enclosed walkways, which were before my time and I think I remember being mentioned in great the documentary “Shopper’s World: A look back“.  I forget the reason they did away with these, maybe it got insanely hot in the summer.

I always liked the exposed walkways, even in the winter.  It’s no different than shopping in the city in the winter and it was kind of fun before leaving a store to make the game plan of what store to run to next.  I know it wasn’t fun for some people but I think it was a fair trade off to have such a unique shopping experience as S.W.

Any new readers can click on the Shopper’s World category to read my feelings about Shopper’s World.  I’ll save my usual rant…for now!