Chances are the Little Dipper is the only restaurant in Jamaica Plain with model rockets on the ceiling. But it’s the menu that will ultimately draw customers back in to the restaurant, not the decor.
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Last December, Jamaica Plain restaurants Tres Gatos and Centre Street Cafe added a 3 percent “hospitality administrative fee” to diners’ checks, which would be used to fund raises, benefits and more sustainable work hours for the restaurants’ back-of-house kitchen staff. When sister restaurant Casa Verde opened this May, it adopted the rule as well.
Ah, the internet — it’s an idiot’s playground, but sometimes love trumps stupidity. That was the case when a bunch of internet trolls bombarded Centre Street Cafe’s Facebook page with untruthful, negative reviews, after a restaurant employee posted a video on his personal Facebook page calling out hateful language at a local rally for a certain GOP presidential nominee.
Boston Magazine’s annual “Best of Boston” issue has hit stands, and 2015 marks the 42nd anniversary of the awards! For the past 12 months, Boston magazine’s team of expert judges ate, drank, and shopped their way across the city, the ‘burbs, and the Cape and the Islands to find the very best the area has to offer.
This year, 10 Jamaica Plain businesses won “Best of Boston” awards in the “Arts & Entertainment,” “Dining,” and “Neighborhood Best” categories.

A new Mexican restaurant from the team that runs Tres Gatos and Centre Street Cafe is planned for the longtime Ghazal space.
You’d expect the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to be against raising the minimum wage. And you’d be right. But what about business owners right here in JP?