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Ever wanted to run a harborside restaurant?
By adamg on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 12:32pm
Adam Castiglioni reports the owners of Scup's in the Harbor in East Boston are looking for somebody to take over their operations due to a medical emergency - just as they were getting ready for their April 1 re-opening.
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It's more of a comfort food place than a seafood restautant
Scup's is a hidden gem that is not really a seafood place. It's a unique homemade comfort food place that everyone in the area loves. I really hope they find someone to run the place as it will be greatly missed.
Food by the sea, not seafood
Unless serving tuna salad makes you a seafood restaurant, Scups is not one. It is however, an intimate, fun restaurant in East Boston's working shipyard that is dearly loved by the community. I'd agree that comfort food is a good way to describe it.
I hope everything turns out
I hope everything turns out OK for the owners. Very nice people and they took pride in their food.
I wouldn't have to run it
I wouldn't have to run it well, would I?
It'd be hard to screw it up
Have you seen the menu? It's not exactly pushing for a Michelin star. That's not to say that people don't enjoy it for what it is or that they don't do it well. It's just that it's fairly simple fare so it'd be pretty hard to screw it up.
I hope they do reopen. I hadn't known they were there and they sound like a great place to visit as the days get warmer. (Plus the owners used to own Emma's in Kendall and that place has always been pretty awesome)
Fairly simple to list, not to make
...when you have eggs with a homemade homegrown tomato jam, potato chips, unbelievable deliciously seasoned food.
I feel bad for them
...but honestly, the one time I went to Scups after hearing months over over-the-top praise for the place on Chowhound and elsewhere, I thought the food absolutely sucked. The much-vaunted breakfast BLT was a haphazardly-constructed sandwich of middling-quality ingredients that didn't meld into a satisfying whole, and the raved-about millionaire's bacon was average-quality bacon with brown sugar and black pepper heaped on top of it. Boring as shit.
But on the other hand, we did discover a really lovely park we hadn't known about on our way there, so that was nice.
Piers Park
Piers Park, with Jeffries Point, right?
Beautiful park, nicely maintained, and they've fixed it up pretty over the years.
Exactly
It's really lovely -- we were not surprised to see at least two different wedding parties shooting photos there -- and has a gorgeous view. Might be the nicest park I know of in the entire city.