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Five Seasons
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tower@gnu.ai.mit.edu)
Tue Jan 31 15:12:44 1995
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 95 15:11:02 est
From: tower@gnu.ai.mit.edu
To: sgw@bronze.lcs.mit.edu, vsg@MIT.EDU
The Five Seasons started out years ago as a macrobiotic restaurant
much like Masao's Kitchen, but has become increasingly a natural foods
style restaurant. The food has been consistently good over the years.
Not quite up to the standards of San Diego's Kung Food, San Rapheals
CA's Millys, or Bridgeport CT's Bloodroot. But well worth the trip.
It and Masao's Kitchen are my two favorite restaurants in Boston right
now.
They occasionally have fish and other marine animal life on the menu.
Almost all the seatings is booths, so a large group can't all sit at
one table.
My major complaint is that they aren't here in Cambridge. They are 15
to 20 minutes by car and over an hour by T from MIT. Take the
Orange line to the Green Street stop. Walk west to the end of Green
Street, which is Centre Street. Five Seasons is on the other side of
the Centre Street, a few blocks to the left(?).
The center of Jamaica Plain has a lot of interesting shops and a few
good bookstores. I have gone to the Five Seasons for lunch, and then
enjoyed the rest of the JP business district. One can also take a
walk around Jamaica Pond, which is only 2 blocks from Five Seasons.
Here is what Ellis S. Cohen's has in the The Whole Boston Restaurant List:
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Five Seasons ($$) [Macriobotic] -- Jamaica Plain
669A Centre St, 524-9016
T: Arborway Bus (E Green Line extension) / Orange Line @ Green St
Tasty, fresh, well prepared fish & veggie dishes. They also serve
poultry, but the focus is on vegan & macrobiotic fare. The desserts
are really good, enough to recommend the place by itself, especially
considering how low in fat and sugar they are. Go for the
mocha-hazelnut tort, it was fantastic. Large portions, too. Pleasant
service, but the place can be quite crowded. No smoking, wheelchair
accessible, very child-friendly. About $15/dinner.
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best -len
