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The Globe launches Project Takeout, an effort to help restaurants make it to the other side of this pandemic.

Get takeout. It’s your civic duty.

Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.

More about Project Takeout

The Globe is asking readers, if they can, to get takeout and help our local restaurants get through this dark winter.

Tell us your favorite restaurants

Explore a map of some local restaurants and submit your hometown favorites

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The spread at the South End's Brasserie.
Venice Pizza returns to Dorchester, Comfort Kitchen pops up in Jamaica Plain, and Brasserie says bonjour to Harrison Avenue
Restaurant news you can use.

The patio at Mare in the North End.
RESTAURANT HIBERNATIONS

These patios are open for springtime gatherings

If the warm weather has you longing for an al fresco meal, rejoice: Plenty of restaurants have maintained patios all year long or are reintroducing them for springtime.

LATEST FOOD & DINING HEADLINES

QUICK BITE
Torta Victoria at La Victoria taqueria in Belmont.
Belmont Center gets a tasty, efficient taqueria
La Victoria opens a third location, serving tacos and tortas.

Chef Daniel Humm stands for a portrait inside his restaurant Eleven Madison Park in 2017. The highly acclaimed Manhattan restaurant Eleven Madison Park announced on Monday that it would no longer serve meat or seafood when it reopens next month.
One of the world’s best restaurants — NYC’s Eleven Madison Park — is going meatless
“The way we eat meat, it is not sustainable,” chef Daniel Humm said of the decision to take meat and seafood off the menu when the restaurant reopens post-pandemic.

Chapter 1: The exquisite normalcy of chopping an onion

Welcome to the apocalypse. It’s going to be delicious.

Chapter 2: Soooo. I hear you bought some beans.

Beans have always been a punch line, an insult, unfairly maligned. The musical fruit. Something you’re full of. A whole hill of them? Not worth much.

Chapter 3: Herbs might save us

Don’t forget to celebrate spring.

Chapter 4: Let a nation of bread bakers arise

Often seen as the final, intimidating frontier of baking, bread is now becoming our national project.

Chapter 5: The freezer is a time capsule

Today I took out a tub of soup from the freezer. Turkey barley. My mother brought it the last time she visited. Once it’s gone, I don’t know when I’ll taste my mother’s cooking again.

Chapter 6: Cabbage, a love story

During the Great Potato Famine, cabbage was there for Ireland. And during the Great Sequestration of 2020, cabbage is here for you. For an uncannily long time.

Chapter 7: The Ghosts of Quarantine Future

Weeks ahead of us, what have the people in Italy learned about life in quarantine that we, now, might learn from them?

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Crispy shrimp tacos and a prickly pear margarita at Barra in Somerville.

This Cinco de Mayo, indulge in some tacos

Cinco de Mayo drives traffic to restaurants that need it more this year than ever. Here are several Mexican eateries that opened locally just before or during the pandemic where you can get your fix.

FOOD
Jasper HIll's May box.

Cheese and more, in a box to your door

Jasper Hill Farm in Vermont offers subscribers a monthly delivery of three cheeses and three other items, such as cured meats, crackers, special vinegars or syrups, and barware.

Flourish flour

Bay State Milling brings us Flourish, a healthier all-purpose flour

It has five times more fiber than unbleached white flour.

FOOD
This outstanding Spanish red earns a thumbs up.

This outstanding Spanish red earns a thumbs up

The wine “Vara y Pulgar” is as distinctive as the traditional pruning method for which it’s named.

FOOD
Products from 88 Acres

88 Acres makes allergy safe snacks and dressings

‘Focusing on seeds allows us to celebrate what’s in the foods and not what’s not.’

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The spread at the South End's Brasserie.

Venice Pizza returns to Dorchester, Comfort Kitchen pops up in Jamaica Plain, and Brasserie says bonjour to Harrison Avenue

Containers of takeout food

100 top restaurants for takeout in Boston and beyond

Does eating a majority of one’s daily calories earlier in the day help with weight loss? Research seems to agree.

Why you should eat breakfast like a king and dinner like a pauper

FOOD
Alexinah Nyaigoti, 3, uses a heavy shovel to help her family at The Flats Mentor Farm.

How a farmer’s sales strategy turned her parents’ garden into a family business

When the Nyaigoti family came to Massachusetts from Kenya, they brought the seeds they would need to keep growing their favorite vegetables. Those seeds also grew a business.

Ally Buitenhuys bartends at Fenway's Bleacher Bar, which has stayed busy through the pandemic.

Bleacher Bar bartender Ally Buitenhuys gives loyal customers a home base near Fenway’s home plate

Through it all, two of life’s consistencies are baseball and beer.

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Contessa will open in June atop the Newbury Boston.

We now know the name of the restaurant that’s opening atop the Newbury

Restaurant news you can use.

QUICK BITE
A flatbread at the Punch Bowl restaurant in the new Hilton Garden Inn in Brookline Village.

A modern tavern inspired by a historical one

From the team behind La Morra and Heritage of Sherborn, Punch Bowl opens in Brookline.

Organic mushrooms from Fat Moon Farm.

Mushroom growing kits are the new sourdough starter

Westford company Fat Moon Farm sells its organic mushrooms, and offers kits and classes on how to grow them at home.

Vermont Bean Crafters products.

If you’ve been a big bean fan, try a subscription box

The Bean Box from Vermont Bean Crafters brings 6 pounds of different varieties to your door every few months.

Around the World in Ten Spice Blends.

Soluna Garden Farm’s herb, spice, and tea blends will kick you out of a flavor rut

Cofounders Amy Hirschfeld and Tatiana Brainerd source ingredients from small organic farms worldwide.

WHAT SHE'S HAVING
Iverson Guo, owner of Karma in Burlington.

Good food and good Karma in Burlington

Find upscale sushi in an unlikely location.