

Leo Keka of Alba Restaurant (plans to remodel and expand his sprawling Mediterranean steakhouse, beloved for its dry-aged beef, expansive wine list and sun-splashed roof deck (Alba chef David Hutton’s resume includes stints at upscale Boston eateries Mistral and Mooo). Other hopeful restaurateurs are re-investing in their businesses. “There’s a lot of energy in Quincy right now,” said Adams. Lynch-Delaney’s father, Paul “Lynchie” Lynch, owned the working-class pub that sat above the Broadway T station.ĭevin Adams, who worked for Lynch at Drink in Fort Point, brought much-needed serious cocktail cred to Quincy Center when he opened The Townshend in May (He and his partners plan to open a second downtown spot next year: a contemporary but casual chef-driven “Beacon Hill-style” tavern with scratch kitchen offering international flavors. They’ll also re-create the famous steak tips served at former South Boston landmark The Quiet Man. “We’ve already perfected the pizza dough,” Lynch boasted last month. The new full-service restaurant will specialize in seasonal sheet-pan pizzas baked in a state-of-the-art Rational oven. Lynch-Delaney owns the popular Babycakes bakery in the Wollaston neighborhood ().
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The first Quincy Food Truck Festival rolls into Pageant Field overlooking Wollaston Beach on Saturday, featuring two dozen of Greater Boston’s most popular food trucks, plus a Samuel Adams beer garden (Culinary rock star Lynch, meanwhile, is working with her niece, Kerri Lynch-Delaney, to open a yet-unnamed upscale-casual Italian-themed eatery on Cottage Avenue in Quincy Center. The Boston food community, meanwhile, is looking at Liang’s hometown with new interest. They signed a lease Monday to build a 10th restaurant at the Ink Block in the South End. He and schoolmate-turned-business-partner Peter Tse operate six Japanese-inspired Quincy eateries (plus two in Cambridge’s Kendall Square and another at Assembly Row in Somerville. A leader of the city’s dynamic Asian food scene, Liang, 37, was born in China, educated in Quincy schools and speaks with a classic Boston accent. “We believe in Quincy and want it to become Boston’s next big dining destination,” said restaurateur Jimmy Liang. The rapidly changing dining scene in this diverse community of 93,000 is propelled by the city’s proximity to Boston, a hot real estate market, 26 miles of scenic waterfront, a proud history as the City of Presidents and a wave of downtown retail and residential development.


9 Park, B&G Oysters, Menton) leads the list of restaurateurs about to reshape hospitality in “The Mighty Q.” Nationally acclaimed chef Barbara Lynch (No. Big, brash and bustling, Quincy is starting to flex its culinary muscles.
