Food

Punch Junk Love

Elevated Junk Food. Come and Get It.

Junk food. It’s as American as summertime pyrotechnics and movies starring Abe Lincoln. And turns out, some of Boston’s culinary bastions are out there making elevated versions of it as we speak. Crafting handmade Twinkies. Making fancy Egg McMuffins. Throwing Doritos in a blender because that’s great. Proceed without caution...

FRESH TWINKIES AT WHISK AT WINK & NOD

Just a Small-Batch Twinkie Operation

You Require: Twinkies.
You’ll Receive: A set of cushiony, yellow sponge cakes made to order and filled with a brown-butter cream by the Whisk guys. It’s like having a Twinkie factory that only turns on when you tell it to. The American dream. You found it.

EGG SANDWICH AT WARD 8

An Egg McMuffin for Grown-Ups

You Require: An Egg McMuffin.
You’ll Receive: Something that looks and feels a hell of a lot like the real deal. Down to the American cheese. Only this comes on a soft Portuguese sweet muffin with a housemade sausage patty spiked with sriracha and sage. And it’s available after 10:30am.

CHOCOLATE PEANUT CANDY BAR AT ROW 34

A Pastry Chef Who Makes Candy Bars

You Require: A Snickers bar.
You’ll Receive: An asymmetrical stack composed of chocolate-peanut-butter ganache, house nougat and salted toffee chunks by Row 34’s pastry chef. Served with a decorative swizzle of caramel. Possible copyright infringement never tasted so good.

FONTINA TATER TOTS AT TREMONT647

The 1% of the Tater Tot World

You Require: Tater tots.
You’ll Receive: Exactly two of them. Which might seem underwhelming. Until you realize that someone stuffed them with fontina cheese and that they’re served in a tiny, delicate dish over a saucer. Yep. They broke out their finest tater tot china for this one.

COOL RANCH DORITOS “RANCH” AT JM CURLEY

Cool Ranch Doritos + Blender = This

You Require: Cool Ranch Doritos.
You’ll Receive: A little cup of magic produced by throwing a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos into a blender with buttermilk. And it comes with a delicate kale salad. Just kidding, it’s served in a box of fried chicken. It’s probably great on kale, too.