Max Falkowitz journeys up from Queens in pursuit of the perfect bowl of pho on Dorchester "Boulevard:"
On a mission to find the bowl of pho most likely to send you wandering naked through the desert, I downed a one at every Dorchester Vietnamese restaurant that put it on their menu. I was principally in pursuit of balance: the pho that nailed lipsmacking stock without tasting cloying ...
H/t Wecome to Dot.
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Dorchester Boulevard?
By John Costello
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 10:01am
This is the compromise name which will come about after the real estate plunder, I mean Olympics, has Dot Ave renamed in order to sanitize the heathens as it approaches "Midtown".
John Henry's B24 Press Release Vehicle's story last week on the blight that is Dot Ave, you know the street with all the privately originated, privately funded real estate going up, near Broadway, showed a lowly propane facility as an indicator that the area should be carpet bombed into smithereens to allow a new Olympic Boulevard to flow south.
Boston.com has a story on billboards today that had two locational errors in roughly 30 photos.
What happened to simple editing, fact checking, and journalistic integrity in this town, let alone by some blogger from Queens? Brian McGrory, you are not Tom Winship.
What happened to simple
By anon
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 10:19am
It never existed.
The internet has allowed people other sources of information to the point people now notice the press is full of it.
In the Queens street naming
By anon
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 12:41pm
In the Queens street naming system, a road that predates and cuts across the grid is called a Boulevard, since a Street, Avenue, Road, etc would have to be a north-south or east-west street in the grid.
Boulevard?
By Steeve
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 10:55am
Is that where "Wecome to Dot" is located? ;)
What? No protesters?
By Sock_Puppet
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 11:10am
No interpretive guidance?
Pretty good roundup, though I wonder why he skipped
By MC Slim JB
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 11:17am
Pho 2000, my second-favorite after Pho So 1. Interesting to see that Thao Ngoc's is apparently good, as under the previous ownership, most of the rather long menu was superb (I reviewed it for the Improper) but the pho was weak.
"Cloying" seems like an odd term
By Sally
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 12:39pm
to apply to pho, or soup of any kind.
Anh Hong
By JPNative617
Fri, 07/10/2015 - 6:39am
Still the best, IMO
bloop
By tape
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 12:50pm
It's already been edited to Dorchester Avenue.
Oh, what a shame
By lbb
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 3:15pm
That'll ruin a few people's day.
"That's why, when we took a
By anon
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 1:53pm
"That's why, when we took a 35-stop trip to Boston to eat everything in sight, we devoted a whole day to crawling down Dorchester Avenue, the main artery of the neighborhood's Vietnamese community"
...where does it say Dorchester Boulevard?
Clever pun headline might be
By gotdatwmd
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 4:29pm
Clever pun headline might be inaccurate. "Pho" is pronounced "fuh."
Well I guess it could go either way.
It sounds more Boston-y
By Sally
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 5:40pm
Though I've never understood why it was translated/spelled "pho" and not "pha" or something more accurate.
Because that's how it is
By Anon
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 11:13pm
Because that's how it is spelled in Vietnamese
Pho
By Kntmssnr
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 4:56pm
Sunrise Restaurant. Best beef broth bar none.
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