Jason Bond has finally opened Bondir on Broadway.  Although you might not be able to tell from the facade, which is, as I understand it, is to a large extent, unintentional.  The restaurant is very pretty inside with a fireplace that was just in time for the last week of November.  Up to now Area 4 has been a phantom arrondisement of Cambridge, but Bond features the address.   There was a time when the only organization in the neighborhood was the Area 4 Crime Task Force.  There are rumors of another new restaurant on Main Street to be called Area 4, although I’m not sure if that stretch of Main Street is formally part of the neighborhood, or considered to be part of the neighborhood.

Life Alive at the other end of Central Square, in the former location of Hollywood Express is now open. Former Mayor Ken Reeves endorses it.  And people continue to await the arrival of Floating Rock, which has broken off the Revere landmass and is being nudged up the Charles to the middle of Central Square

Bondir has a good website
www.bondircambridge.com

The menu for November 27 was

Bread
Bronze Fennel Seed, Sour Chery-Walnut, 9-Grain Crackling

Fish fume and Chatham Oyster
Crisp pancetta, skate, cod, potatoes and Radish
9

Long Island Cheese Pumpkin Soup
Ras el Hanout Marshmallow, Crisp Shallot, Bee Pollen
9

Bloody Butcher Grits
Vegetable Mignardes, Collard Greens
12/23

Roasted Beef
Mole Sauce Celeriac, and Mustard Greens
15/28

Laying Hen and Noodle Stew
Roasted Onion, Confit Yolk
13/24

Tamworth Pork Belly Roast
Bronze Fennel Braised Bolero Carrots and Radish, Apple Glaze
13/24

Line-Caught Scituate Cod
Celeriac and Kohlrabi, Pickled Mushroom, Tumeric Broth
15/28

Chestnut Agnolotti alla Macellaria
Coeur de Boeuf Cabbage, Mozzarella Salata
13/24

In a conversation earlier this month  the chef had discussed raising his own pig, while a friend smiled about the Laying Hen Stew arising from the decision of local farmers to take a sabbatical from farm life, during this winter.  And forcing the slaughter of all their birds.