Newton is seeing a bit of movement on the restaurant front. The most recent entry is the Farmacy, which opened in Newton Four Corners. It’s in the same small strip mall as The Dumpling House (a personal favorite).
It’s interesting since Four Corners is often a “forgotten village”, but it is the home of a Whole Foods, a decent wine shop, and the city’s major seasonal farmer’s market, among other restaurants.
The Farmacy menu focuses on locally sourced and organic ingredients, mostly grain bowls and smoothies. The Newton location is one of three for the startup, which will soon include the High Street Place Food Hall in Boston’s financial district.
Another restaurant with a similar bent is Pressed, which is currently building out a space on Needham Street. Pressed currently has locations in Burlington and Nashua, NH.
Last month Patzcurao Taqueria opened in Nonantum, which is emerging as wonderful restaurant destination. With a couple of standby bars (West St. Grill and Tommy Doyle’s) and some gems like Shaking Crab, Olivia’s Bistro Moldova, and The Landing — L’Approdo Pizza & Kitchen all within a couple of blocks. I even saw a sign for kebabs on Adams Street, which I need to check out.
Correction: vino di vino is a *great* wine shop.
Four Corners is also home of the legendary dentist, Harvey Cohen, as well as the inveterate Trap Dor unisex salon.
It seems like Newton is getting more and more variety these days. Nonantum has great choices. Also sort of in Nonantum is Hearty Teriyaki which I think is excellent.
Looking at West Newton, I’m wondering what will go into the La Tate/Shing Yee space and the Coney Island space and possibly L’Aroma’s building. Plus the new development that is going to start. I have a feeling that West Newton is going to end up with some interesting new choices. Hopefully more long-lived than La Tate!
What happened to Coney island?
Coney island is in New York
Coney Island: they retired, and are already sorely missed. The building permit in the window says the space will be a wine bar.
Seriously miss Coney island! Great opportunity for a quick ice cream after a movie 🙁
Since everyone is so nostalgic, When I was a kid I’d always go to Wayne Drug Store to buy comic books in that same four corners strip mall that now includes the dumpling house.