Douglas native lands a dream job in Boston restaurant
By Linda Laban
Then he landed a dream job.
As 2020 ended, the Douglas native who lives in Worcester took up his new position as executive chef at Grill 23 and Bar in Boston’s Back Bay.
“I said to my wife, what are the odds that I go from no job to my dream job in the middle of a pandemic,” he said in mid-January, still sounding incredulous. And also grateful: “I say I am really lucky, but my wife said, you have the chops and the experience; it’s not just luck.”
Way, way, way up, just below the Mount Rosebrook summit opposite New Hampshire’s mighty Presidential Mountains, a new building is now visible, glinting in the fall sunlight.
This, the Rosebrook Lodge, is the venerable Omni Mount Washington Resort’s brand-new 16,000-square-foot on-mountain, up-mountain dining and event space. It opened at the beginning of fall, tentatively, though, with limited service due to the pandemic restrictions.
Still, Rosebrook Lodge had at least a couple of weddings under its belt by Columbus Day Weekend, a very popular time for leaf peepers and pre-ski season travelers in this remote northeastern New Hampshire region.
By Linda Laban
Correspondent
The year 2019 was a big one in Daniel Roughan’s 20-year career in the restaurant business. He was project manager for two of Boston’s biggest nightlife venues: the glamorous North End meets North Shore Italian eatery Fratelli in the Encore Boston Harbor Casino; and the Big Night Entertainment triple-venue complex in the Hub on Causeway that includes (celebrity chef Guy Fieri’s) Guy’s Tequila Cochina, studio B, and the Big Night Live music venue.
It was also the year the Shrewsbury native decided to go it alone and open his own restaurant.
Last December, he signed the lease for his very own restaurant, to be called Source, a farm-to-table pizza restaurant housed in the charming historic building in Harvard Square that was Cambridge’s first firehouse, Cambridge One.
Shrewsbury native moves from stage to kitchen, opening Source in Cambridge
By Linda Laban
The year 2019 was a big one in Daniel Roughan’s 20-year career in the restaurant business. He was project manager for two of Boston’s biggest nightlife venues: the glamorous North End meets North Shore Italian eatery Fratelli in the Encore Boston Harbor Casino; and the Big Night Entertainment triple-venue complex in the Hub on Causeway that includes (celebrity chef Guy Fieri’s) Guy’s Tequila Cochina, studio B, and the Big Night Live music venue.
It was also the year the Shrewsbury native decided to go it alone and open his own restaurant.