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April 24, 2025 1 min
WBZ's Jordan Rich talks with Matt Robinson of matts-meals.com about this hospitality group in Boston, MA. 

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hello and welcome. This is Connoisseur's Corner. I'm Jordan Rich.
Today I'm with Matt Robinson, my good buddy who's a
food reporter and has the scoop on all kinds of
important things on his website match Meals mattsdash meals dot com.
Let's do a little restaurant business update. A lot going on,
I mean, you know, with.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
So many people still working from home, a lot of
businesses downtown in Boston have been suffering. But fortunately some
of the heavyweights of our hospitality industry have gotten together
to lure people back down. BCB three Hospitality is a
combination of the team behind Bena Family Hospitality, including family
head Babak Bina and his partner Andy Carton, and super

(00:39):
chef Jamie Bissonette, who's known for places like Kappa and
Toro and Little Donkey. He's a James Beard Award winner.
So the new group's restaurant includes Somaiyak, which has already
been named a finalist for this year's James Beard Awards.
It's an Asian eatery inspired by Bisinet's Korean mother in
law and already named one of the best news spots
in the Country by The New York Times, and there

(00:59):
are other Two new places which are also in the
downtown crossing area are Temple Records and Sushi at Temple Records,
which is helmed by Japanese native and longtime sushi student
and master Kensa Katagai. They're already super popular, winning awards
left and right, and hopefully they will help draw people
back downtown, even if you're no longer working there, even
if you don't ever say you want to go there,

(01:19):
fight the traffic, find the parking, go check it out,
and while you're there, help out some of the other
restaurants in the neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Thank you so much. He's Matt Robinson. I'm Jordan rich
Conno SURS Corner WBZ, Boston's news radio
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