• Hannah Sheinberg scopes out the best places to dine on the water, because summer is all about “eating outside, scarfing down fried finger food, drenching yourself in the juice of fresh watermelon and your own saliva.” [Weekly Dig]
• Robert Nadeau has four stars for Stoddard’s Fine Food and Ale, serving “cheffed-up comfort food,” like the obligatory charcuterie plate, which includes “quail-egg sausage — each lean slice like a face, with two embedded quail-egg eyes.” [Phoenix]
• Cheap Eats visits Kowloon in Saugus, where guilty pleasures abound. [Globe]
• MC Slim JB tries the new Mix Flavor Brazilian Grill in Somerville, where “even a single, carefully laden plateful at Mix will still be one of more flavorful, diversely composed, budget-friendly meals you will find in Boston.” [Phoenix]
• Devra First dines at Basho Japanese Brasserie, where the food is a bit uneven. Sushi and sashimi “take top billing,” but the robatayaki is lacking, like “robata robbed of its essence.” [Globe]
