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The Globe launches Project Takeout, an effort to help restaurants make it to the other side of this pandemic.

Get takeout. It’s your civic duty.

Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.

More about Project Takeout

The Globe is asking readers, if they can, to get takeout and help our local restaurants get through this dark winter.

Tell us your favorite restaurants

Explore a map of some local restaurants and submit your hometown favorites

This map shows the top cities for BBQ in America, according to a Chef's Pencil analysis of TripAdvisor data.
This food magazine analyzed America’s best and worst cities for BBQ. People disagreed
The results raised some eyebrows among readers, as the top of the list featured several cities not exactly known for their barbecue.

The patio at Mare in the North End.
RESTAURANT HIBERNATIONS

These patios are open for springtime gatherings

If the warm weather has you longing for an al fresco meal, rejoice: Plenty of restaurants have maintained patios all year long or are reintroducing them for springtime.

LATEST FOOD & DINING HEADLINES

TABLES
Mussels in cream sauce at Colette Wine Bistro in Porter Square in Cambridge.
Shore Leave renounces tiki concept, Dorchester gets a new seafood spot, and the Union Square Farmers Market returns
Restaurant news you can use.

Port City pretzels.
Port City Pretzels have less salt but all the flavor
They’re neither fat and doughy and bursting-at-the-seams, nor are they hard and stick-like.

Chapter 1: The exquisite normalcy of chopping an onion

Welcome to the apocalypse. It’s going to be delicious.

Chapter 2: Soooo. I hear you bought some beans.

Beans have always been a punch line, an insult, unfairly maligned. The musical fruit. Something you’re full of. A whole hill of them? Not worth much.

Chapter 3: Herbs might save us

Don’t forget to celebrate spring.

Chapter 4: Let a nation of bread bakers arise

Often seen as the final, intimidating frontier of baking, bread is now becoming our national project.

Chapter 5: The freezer is a time capsule

Today I took out a tub of soup from the freezer. Turkey barley. My mother brought it the last time she visited. Once it’s gone, I don’t know when I’ll taste my mother’s cooking again.

Chapter 6: Cabbage, a love story

During the Great Potato Famine, cabbage was there for Ireland. And during the Great Sequestration of 2020, cabbage is here for you. For an uncannily long time.

Chapter 7: The Ghosts of Quarantine Future

Weeks ahead of us, what have the people in Italy learned about life in quarantine that we, now, might learn from them?

MORE FOOD & DINING HEADLINES

Cashew shakes.

Rich, creamy, and healthy cashew shakes

You can use the vanilla as a coffee creamer, or pour the shakes into molds and freeze them into popsicles.

BOTTLES
Michael Fairbrother.

Finding sweet success in the mead-making business

There's an art to making good honey wine, says Michael Fairbrother of Moonlight Meadery in New Hampshire.

GETTING SALTY
Alexis Cervasio runs East Boston Oysters and plans to open a grocery store in the neighborhood soon.

East Boston Oysters founder Alexis Cervasio muscles into the grocery game, championing working moms

The pop-up impresario opens a storefront later this year with a mission to give employees better work-life balance.

WHAT SHE'S HAVING
When you and your friends are fully vaxed, and you're reading to entertain again, start with drinks outdoors and a hearty cheese hors d’oeuvre such as (clockwise from top): Roasted Pecorino with Honey and Walnuts; Baked Feta with Tomatoes; Ricotta with Fig Jam.

When it’s time to have friends over again, don’t get too ambitious

Start with drinks on your patio or balcony and a hearty cheese hors d’oeuvre to ease back into entertaining.

DEVRA FIRST
Newbury Street has been a mix of outdoor dining oases among several permanently shuttered Back Bay restaurants.

Amid restaurant closures in Boston, there is an opportunity to reshape the city’s dining scene for years to come

Statewide, 3,400 establishments — 23 percent of the total — closed permanently during the pandemic, according to the Massachusetts Restaurant Association. But alongside all of this loss, the vacancies in Boston now present an opportunity.

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Mussels in cream sauce at Colette Wine Bistro in Porter Square in Cambridge.

Shore Leave renounces tiki concept, Dorchester gets a new seafood spot, and the Union Square Farmers Market returns

Owner Yahya Noor jokes with customers at Tawakal Halal Cafe in East Boston.

Why a Somali nook in East Boston is one of the country’s best new restaurants

Black cod wrapped in hoba leaf at Zuma.

The 29 best new restaurants in Boston and the suburbs

TABLES
The spread at the South End's Brasserie.

Venice Pizza returns to Dorchester, Comfort Kitchen pops up in Jamaica Plain, and Brasserie says bonjour to Harrison Avenue

Restaurant news you can use.

QUICK BITE
Torta Victoria at La Victoria taqueria in Belmont.

Belmont Center gets a tasty, efficient taqueria

La Victoria opens a third location, serving tacos and tortas.

Chef Daniel Humm stands for a portrait inside his restaurant Eleven Madison Park in 2017. The highly acclaimed Manhattan restaurant Eleven Madison Park announced on Monday that it would no longer serve meat or seafood when it reopens next month.

One of the world’s best restaurants — NYC’s Eleven Madison Park — is going meatless

“The way we eat meat, it is not sustainable,” chef Daniel Humm said of the decision to take meat and seafood off the menu when the restaurant reopens post-pandemic.

TRAVEL
A visitor walks along the Main Street USA at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., on April 30.

What it’s like to work where the magic happens

Nothing can emotionally prepare you for seeing Goofy holding his own head, taking a smoke break.

DEVRA FIRST
Crispy shrimp tacos and a prickly pear margarita at Barra in Somerville.

This Cinco de Mayo, indulge in some tacos

Cinco de Mayo drives traffic to restaurants that need it more this year than ever. Here are several Mexican eateries that opened locally just before or during the pandemic where you can get your fix.

FOOD
Jasper HIll's May box.

Cheese and more, in a box to your door

Jasper Hill Farm in Vermont offers subscribers a monthly delivery of three cheeses and three other items, such as cured meats, crackers, special vinegars or syrups, and barware.

Flourish flour

Bay State Milling brings us Flourish, a healthier all-purpose flour

It has five times more fiber than unbleached white flour.

FOOD
This outstanding Spanish red earns a thumbs up.

This outstanding Spanish red earns a thumbs up

The wine “Vara y Pulgar” is as distinctive as the traditional pruning method for which it’s named.