Don’t go down without a weekend.
Your Perks: 1) Three bottles of wine, tailored to your tastes and delivered to your door. 2) A high-tech scale that measures your weight and body fat, and sends the data to your phone. 3) A pair of wireless Swedish-made speakers. In the Swedes you trust.
If “giving up coffee” was one of your resolutions: move along. Because there’s a new Barrington Coffee on the loose now, this time on Newbury Street. You’ll find espresso, pastries and coffee made from an advanced brewing machine called “The Steampunk.” It’s a different kind of steampunk.
Close your eyes and imagine the perfect Italian deli. There’d be an infinite supply of salami and housemade red sauce. There’d be a couple little tables to decamp to with braised-beef arancini and sheep’s cheese pizza. There’d be constant banter in Italian. Now open your eyes. You’re at Pepe Bocca.
If this were last month, we probably would’ve opened with an eggnog joke. But we’re just going to cut to the chase and tell you that a swanky new fitness club called Republic Fitness has opened in the Financial District. Is what we’re going to do instead of open with an eggnog joke.
Don’t: Think about how cold it is.
Do: Think about how there’s a new counter-service Indian spot in Back Bay willing to fix
you tomato-and-mozzarella naan sandwiches and family-style tandoori chicken.
Do: Wear gloves.
Your field guide to post-holiday sales greatness:
Ball and Buck: 25% off fall and winter gear like knit hats and hand-sewn leather
boots.
Mr. Sid: 40% to 70% off the likes of Alden shoes, Zegna suits and Gitman shirts.
Louis Boston: Belvest, Massimo Bizzocchi and more reduced by a flat 40%.
Godspeed.
