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JM Curley is serious about fun in Boston’s Downtown Crossing

By Devra First

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 04, 2012

At JM Curley, you’ll find bubble hockey, sugar cereal, and fresh-baked cookies for dessert. Embracing childhood nostalgia, this Downtown Crossing spot is a playroom for adults. Its humorous mission statement concludes: “It’s food and drink, not life and death. Don’t take yourself too seriously, we don’t.” In fact, JM Curley takes itself just seriously enough. The bar and restaurant turns out well-prepared, fun-to-eat, cleverly conceptualized comfort food, influenced by locations from the South to Southeast Asia.

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