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I doubt there are as many under roadways as there are railroad tracks, but I visited this one in Tokyo. Sanagi Shinjuku. It's under a pretty big elevated highway.

Maybe, but there are plenty of very successful non-chains/national brands in touristy areas. I'd wager that between the liquor license and the rent in such a prime location, the number of potential tenants was pretty limited and Ramsay won out. It is pretty important (vitally so, in many...

It doesn't sound like it was the original plan. There's talk of this specific example in a recent Globe article. They originally hoped to get an East Boston restricted license. But now that's apparently not happening and they can't justify the $500k (or more) for a standard license. My guess is...

I love the space (and the fact that it's open), but am not thrilled with the tenant. It's such a unique space and location that it somehow feels cheapened by a Gordon Ramsay branded concept. Maybe the food/beverages are incredible, but I would have loved to have seen something more uniquely...

I had a rookie moment last week - was heading to CX from Maverick Thursday evening and without thinking tried to transfer from Blue to Green at Gov't Center where I got the bad news that GL service wasn't running between Gov't Center and N. Station. I knew this, but forgot. Anyway, a whole host...

Agreed - as a shopper I prefer Natick to Chestnut Hill too (by a good margin). But Wegmans Chestnut Hill is not competing with Wegmans Natick. They’re both competing with other nearby supermarkets. And the difference is that the logistics are similar at any other supermarket in the Chestnut Hill...

Poorly worded on my end - I meant navigating deep into the mall property. Not the mall itself. Not the end of the world, but probably enough of a deterrent for some shoppers. Others passing by may not even know it exists. I still think the idea of simply having to park in a garage (even a free...

Having been to this particular Wegmans a few times, it was a PITA to access relative to most suburban grocery stores. It required navigating fairly deep into the mall (and even getting to the mall isn't fun), parking in a garage across a 3 lane road and either crossing that at the street level...

I'm a big fan of bold colored liveries - Air Greenland, Air New Zealand (the All Black), Play Airlines, the new Condor liveries, etc. are among my favorites. And I think this looks pretty nice. But it's not a drastic departure from the SWA liveries which are already extremely prevalent across...

I would assume that UA was probably banking almost entirely on O&D passengers. They probably figured that the premium-heavy configuration and the fact that they were the only SA flight available was enough to pull passengers away from the other carriers. Apparently it hasn't paid off. I don't...

A couple from the past few weeks:

Self storage is a great suggestion and an amenity that exists in many apartment and condo buildings. It's not a great departure, nor is a problematic noise or safety issue. In the city where square footage is limited, storage space is at a premium. During our hunt for a condo, we turned down...

I did a short stay in London this past weekend (leave Thurs, return Sun) and tried B6 on the BOS-LHR route for the first time. Great service (better hard and soft economy product than competitors), but flights were only about ~60% full to my eye. I had a row to myself each way. MINT looked...

We did BOS-LIS on TAP in November and both of our flights were very full. I'm thrilled to see Delta on the route. I've flown TAP several times out of convenience and necessity, but I really don't like it. It's a low cost carrier in disguise. The boarding process is clunky and while 8kg for a...

I'm all for it if they could do it properly. I just don't believe they would. Masonry is a big part of it, but it's not the only thing that needs to be done well for this not to look like a cheap replica more at home in Vegas or a theme park than center of one of the country's most historic...

I'd love it in theory, but I just don't see how something like that gets built in a way that doesn't scream "Disney knockoff!" The lower levels would almost certainly be concrete instead of granite. I don't think we'd see real masonry instead of precast panels on the brick segments, and the...

This is a great way to describe it. I happen to really like CX because it is urban and connected to the city around it. Lazy is fair, and praising the architecture is borderline silly. But there's ground level retail, a street wall that hugs the sidewalk and creates a decent pedestrian...

The timings sucked, I think. And while it may not have been an issue for you, the Aeromexico nonstop was priced something like 2-3x higher than DL (connecting at JFK) or on UA (connecting at IAH). So on the handful of occasions I flew between BOS-MEX, I opted for the connecting flights even when...

If they coordinated the downgrading of Route 18 with the commuter rail project, I guess they theoretically could have extended it another 1,500 feet or so to the edge of downtown without disrupting too much. That would have been nice. But I don't think the current location is a killer.

Oh yeah, definitely. I'd rather commute 90 minutes on the train than in a car or bus. But 90 minutes commuting each way is still 3 hours per day spent commuting. It's certainly more palatable than driving, but I don't think it's appealing enough to have an outsized impact on the the city in...