Drew Barrymore, Ross Mathews taste test Boston clam chowders from Legal Sea Foods, Boston Sail Loft, Yankee Lobster Co. to declare a Battle of the Bites winner
Updated Jan 14, 2021;
In a close race, Legal Sea Foods was the favorite clam chowder on the “Drew Barrymore Show” on Thursday.
Drew Barrymore, Ross Mathews and three guest judges taste tested three clam chowders from Boston during the talk show. The chowders were from Legal Sea Foods, Boston Sail Loft and Yankee Lobster Co.
“I’ve been sleeping on chowder,” Mathews said after trying the first option, Legal Sea Foods.
We have a winner! Find out who has the tastiest clam chowder in Boston (with a little help from Drew and @helloross): https://t.co/T04si7QnYQpic.twitter.com/SCM05SqKlS The Drew Barrymore Show (@DrewBarrymoreTV) January 14, 2021
In honor of National Soup Month, Legal Sea Foods Restaurant Group, with the support of new owners PPX Hospitality Brands, is declaring Chowda Day on January 15 to be a “Legal” holiday in Massachusetts. Continuing Legal Sea Foods’ long-standing tradition, guests can once again savor a cup of their signature New England Clam Chowder for $1 in restaurant or order online to enjoy at home with the purchase of any entree. A steaming cup of Chowda is the perfect antidote to January’s winter chill with all proceeds benefiting Boston Children’s Hospital, in an effort to support the local community that Legal has been privileged to be a part of and serve over the past 70+ years.
It’s not surprising to find a rich, buttery, stuffed quahog studded with spicy sausage on Yankee Magazine s 2020 Yankee Food Awards list of New England’s best and most iconic foods.
But the magazine’s senior food editor Amy Traverso was a little surprised that this year’s winning “stuffie” is from Massachusetts.
“For stuffies, I assumed the winner would come from Rhode Island,” she said. “But Massachusetts is the big winner this year with six out of the 10 winners.”
The other four winners are from Maine, Connecticut and Vermont.
The stellar stuffie is the Cape’s contribution, made by Brian and Gina Robinson at the Cape Cod Stuffed Quahog Company in Monument Beach, a village in the town of Bourne on Cape Cod.
Insurance Journal’s Most Noteworthy Topics of 2020: East Region
From questions over business interruption policy coverage spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic to property damage due to civil unrest, as well as significant court cases and state regulatory actions, it was a busy year for East region insurers.
Here’s a look back on the most noteworthy topics covered in Insurance Journal’s East region this year:
Business Interruption Insurance
As the COVID-19 pandemic claimed much of East region readers’ attention this year, a perhaps lesser known type of insurance moved into the spotlight, becoming familiar to many: business interruption (BI) insurance.
The restaurant industry has lost 110,000 restaurants, according to the National Restaurant Association. And, based on a Cowen analysis of the past three recessions, 90% of closures have occurred among independent operators who were ill-prepared for a prolonged pandemic that required full-service establishments to depend on off-premise sales to survive.
But it hasn t been bad news for all of the industry.
The purging of restaurants is expected to leave $39 billion in sales up for grabs, according to Cowen. That s created an opportunity for well-financed multi-unit operators and private-equity backed restaurant companies to strike.
These big restaurant players are seizing a moment in a crisis to increase market share by buying solid brands found flatfooted during the pandemic.