Guides

1. Café Pastel

This European-style café by chef George Mendes (Amar at Raffles Boston) is the next best thing to a morning espresso in Lisbon. Snag one of his famed egg-custard tarts for a perfect pick-me-up to the day.

40 Trinity Place, Boston, raffles.com/boston.

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2. Day & Night Cereal Bar

Go ahead and indulge those Saturday-morning cravings for sugary cereal at this new dessert bar: The concoctions of ice cream topped with Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Froot Loops, and more are sure to be a hit with kids of all ages.

6 Tremont St., Brighton, dayandnightcereal.com.

Folio’s sumac-roasted carrots with carrot hummus, carrot radish ribbons, and tahini verde. / Photo by Samantha Barracca Photography

3. Folio

This long-awaited restaurant within the Boston Athenaeum is guaranteed to be a bestseller, thanks to elevated café fare from the Catered Affair, the team behind Boston Public Library’s Map Room Lounge.

14A Beacon St., Boston, thecateredaffair.com.

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4. Island Creek Oysters Farm Tours

It’s just not summer without oysters. For the bivalve curious, two-hour summer tours of Island Creek include a jaunt around the hatchery, a boat ride through Duxbury Bay, and a reserved table at the raw bar.

Tours run every Wednesday-Sunday, through September 29. 403-9, Washington St., Duxbury, islandcreekoysters.com.

5. The Layover

This oasis on the roof of Cunard Tavern is sure to be Eastie’s new launch pad for carefree weekends. Take flight with chef Nate Carr’s duck spring rolls and crab rangoons, plus first-class tropical cocktails.

24 Orleans St., Boston, cunardtavern.com.

Photo by Alyssa Blumstein

6. Le Mari

What’s better than a restaurant with a patio? A restaurant with two patios. That’s what you’ll find at Fox & the Knife alum Leigh Whittaker’s new restaurant, which means “the husband” in French.

259 Newbury St., Boston, lemarirestaurantboston.com.

Cocktails at Monteverdi, a new restaurant in the Royal Sonesta Boston hotel. / Courtesy

7. Monteverdi

The newest venture from Seth Greenberg, the Boston restaurateur behind Mistral and Serafina, is an “elevated Italian” restaurant that sits along the Charles River. The seven-section menu features flatbread pizzas, fresh pasta and “fun and bouncy” bucatini, in Chef Christian Ellis’s words, but one specialty is the roasted chicken—a tribute to the chicken served at the iconic South End French restaurant Hamersley’s Bistro.

40 Edwin H Land Blvd., Cambridge, 617-806-4100, monteverdirestaurant.com

Handrolled pasta at the Red Fox Restaurant. / Photo by Chris McIntosh

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8. The Red Fox Restaurant & Lounge

Summer-vacation hangouts in friends’ basements when you were a kid have nothing on the glammed-out subterranean spot from the crew behind Tony & Elaine’s. Burrow into plates of handrolled pasta and slip into the back bar for a sneaky martini, too.

326 Commercial St., Boston, redfoxnorthend.com.

9. Strega After Dark

Sleek Strega is fueling late summer nights with a new “after-dark” menu, served Wednesday to Saturday from 8 p.m. to midnight. The espresso martinis, in particular, promise to keep the party going.

1 Marina Park Dr., Boston and 64 Arlington St. at Park Plaza, Boston, stregaitaliano.com.

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers made Beanie Bishop the first man with an opportunity to replace suspended Cam Sutton in the slot cornerback role. But unlike most years, they haven’t moved him from that spot, and with plenty of chances to shine, the undrafted rookie has taken on the challenge and ran.

Bishop has been the team’s biggest standout heading into the seventh practice of training camp. The West Virginia star didn’t have a single team believe in him during the NFL Draft, but has quickly made everyone think twice, and for the Steelers, they’re feeling like they found a diamond in the rough.

Bishop has now completed and won his biggest challenge of camp to this point. During 1-on-1 drills, Pittsburgh coaches could be heard yelling, “I want Beanie,” signaling for the rookie to step in. Against who? Both times, it was to face the team’s top receiver, George Pickens.

Both times, Bishop won.

Bishop’s first try came with a pass breakup where he ran with Pickens into the corner of the endzone and was able to stick his hand between the receiver and the ball. The second time was a bit more challenging, as Pickens went up for a jump ball and clearly had the size over Bishop. Coming down, however, Bishop was able to create enough contact with Pickens that it forced the ball out for an incompletion.

The Steelers are looking at Bishop as their Week 1 starter in the slot. Unless Grayland Arnold can surpass him, it’s hard to imagine something changing, and right now, it’s starting to feel like maybe we should shift from “can Bishop make the roster” to “how good can Bishop be?”

Right now, the Steelers have to be thinking Bishop is the next “little angry man” who’s going to turn into a star in Pittsburgh.

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NORWALK, CT — It would be hard to imagine an amateur golfer, particularly one still in college, experiencing a better 10-day stretch than Jackson Roman of Berlin.

In a U.S. Amateur Championship qualifier on July 22, the rising senior at Loyola University Maryland shot a 5-under-par 65 at Concord Country Club in Massachusetts to forge a three-way tie for medalist honors. That win puts Roman in the field for the 124th national championship for non-professionals, slated for Aug. 12-18 at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota.

From Bob Jones, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus to Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods and Bryson DeChambeau, some of the greatest players in the game’s history launched their careers with U.S. Amateur victories. Hazeltine has hosted two U.S. Opens, two U.S. Women’s Opens, both the men’s and women’s PGA Championship, a U.S. Senior Open and the 2016 Ryder Cup matches. Notable champions include World Golf Hall of Fame inductees Tony Jacklin, Hollis Stacy, Billy Caspet and Payne Stewart.

Before heading to Minnesota in a quest to add his name to those legendary lists, Roman entered the 90th Connecticut Open, conducted by the Connecticut State Golf Association at Shorehaven Golf Club. He hoped to continue his steady progress in the state championship, having tied for 14th last year at his home course, Shuttle Meadow, and tying for 20th at New Haven Country Club in 2022.

After an opening-round 70 Monday, Roman fired a 7-under 64 on Tuesday, leaving him alone in second place at 8-under, two strokes behind Chris Fosdick of Middlefield. The two were paired in the final group of the day Wednesday, along with Anthony Guerrera of Watertown Golf Club, and a drastic change took place just minutes after the threesome teed off.

Fosdick pulled his drive out of bounds on the par-5 opening hole, then missed a 10-foot par putt to wind up with bogey. Meanwhile, Roman knocked his second shot about 15 feet from the pin, and rolled in his eagle putt to turn a two-shot deficit into a one-shot lead.

“I don’t even think it really resonated with me that I had the lead at that point,” Roman said following the round. “I was still a little bit nervous, because I’ve had trouble coming out the gates in final rounds.”

The turn of fortune continued on the par-3 second hole, as a Roman birdie and Fosdick bogey upped the margin to three strokes. Fosdick recovered with three straight birdies, moving back into a share of the lead at 11-under through five holes, then assumed the outright lead when Roman bogeyed No. 10.

On the par-5 12th, Roman hit a wayward tee shot, but managed to reach the green in two with a seemingly-impossible iron shot. His two-putt birdie moved him back into a tie for first, setting up the shot of the week at the par-3 13th.

From 213 yards away, Roman smashed a 6-iron four feet from the cup for an easy birdie. When Fosdick bogeyed the hole, Roman had regained a two-shot advantage and all but secured the title.

He closed with a flourish, making birdie on the par-4 18th to finish 12-under, three shots clear of Fosdick, who was playing his first tournament as a professional. Mike Ballo Jr. of Tamarack Country Club in Greenwich tied for third with Danny Balin of White Plains, N.Y.

Roman became the first amateur to win the event since Jeff Hedden in 2008.

“It means so much to me,” he said. “There are so many good players who have come through Connecticut. I mean, I probably don’t even know half of them. This is such a tough golf course and the field is amazing. I couldn’t be happier right now.”

Complete results may be found here.