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Old 09-21-2017, 05:05 PM
 
Location: Massachusetts & Hilton Head, SC
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Old 09-22-2017, 08:40 AM
 
Location: Columbia SC
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In the late 60's there was a Pewter Pot in the heart of Harvard Square.
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Old 11-11-2017, 10:59 PM
 
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What was the IHOP/Friendlys copycat chain, had one on Route 1 sohth in Saugus?
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Old 11-12-2017, 09:17 AM
 
Location: Columbia SC
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What was the IHOP/Friendlys copycat chain, had one on Route 1 sohth in Saugus?
Bickfords??????
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Old 11-12-2017, 10:01 AM
 
Location: Needham, MA
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Anyone remember a restaurant in Dedham that was behind the midway cafe that closed awhile ago
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^Maybe the White Dove, that was across Washington St.?
I remember the White Dove. My grandmother used to like to eat there because they had a cheap twin lobster special. IIRC it was sandwiched between the rotary and East Street. They tore down the building not too many years ago (restaurant sat empty for years) and there's a mixed use building there now with apartments upstairs and a liquor store on the 1st floor.

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Do you mean the Applebees that became an IHOP? That was no great loss.
Where was there an Applebees that became an IHOP in Dedham? The only IHOPs I can think of along RT1/VFW are the one in front of Super Stop & Shop in Dedham but they built that brand new when they built the shopping plaza around 10 years ago and the other one is way up in the far end of Norwood near the Walpole line.

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While it was not technically a restaurant, this one goes way back.

Does anyone remember the blueberry muffins from Jordan Marsh in Downtown Crossing
in Boston. It was just beyond entrance to Jordan Marsh from the MBTA.

Those blueberry muffins were amazing.
Those muffins are legendary in the Boston area. After JM closed the head baker there opened his own shop and sold them for years. He retired a while back and he agreed to publish the recipe in the Boston Herald. My mom has a copy at her house and makes the muffins from time-to-time. They also sell them at Jordan's Furniture around the holidays. They must have made some kind of licensing deal with the company that bought JM (was it Macy's maybe?). Many area bakeries claim to sell "Jordan Marsh" style blueberry muffins as well. I even was on the Cape this year and walked into a bakery in Osterville Center that sold them.

If you do some Googling, you can find the recipe all over the internet. Here's a discussion about it over on Chowhound:

https://www.chowhound.com/post/john-...-recipe-662061

This is one place I found the recipe:

https://newengland.com/today/food/br...berry-muffins/

This site felt like the typically circulated recipe didn't seem quite right and made some interesting tweaks:

https://www.afamilyfeast.com/real-jo...uffins-recipe/

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What was the IHOP/Friendlys copycat chain, had one on Route 1 sohth in Saugus?
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Bickfords??????
I don't know anything about Saugus (not sure I've ever even gotten out of the car there). However, that must have been Bickfords.
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Old 11-12-2017, 10:26 AM
 
Location: Massachusetts & Hilton Head, SC
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Those muffins are legendary in the Boston area. After JM closed the head baker there opened his own shop and sold them for years. He retired a while back and he agreed to publish the recipe in the Boston Herald. My mom has a copy at her house and makes the muffins from time-to-time. They also sell them at Jordan's Furniture around the holidays. They must have made some kind of licensing deal with the company that bought JM (was it Macy's maybe?). Many area bakeries claim to sell "Jordan Marsh" style blueberry muffins as well. I even was on the Cape this year and walked into a bakery in Osterville Center that sold them.

If you do some Googling, you can find the recipe all over the internet. Here's a discussion about it over on Chowhound:

https://www.chowhound.com/post/john-...-recipe-662061

This is one place I found the recipe:

https://newengland.com/today/food/br...berry-muffins/

This site felt like the typically circulated recipe didn't seem quite right and made some interesting tweaks:

https://www.afamilyfeast.com/real-jo...uffins-recipe/




Supposedly, the Muffin House Café in Medway makes them.

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Old 11-12-2017, 05:02 PM
 
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Bickfords??????
Yes, thank you! Three beers aren't good for my memory.
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Old 11-12-2017, 07:36 PM
 
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The Hill Top Steak House in Saugus, was a fabulios place
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Old 11-13-2017, 05:34 AM
 
Location: Quincy, Mass. (near Boston)
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I remember the White Dove. My grandmother used to like to eat there because they had a cheap twin lobster special. IIRC it was sandwiched between the rotary and East Street. They tore down the building not too many years ago (restaurant sat empty for years) and there's a mixed use building there now with apartments upstairs and a liquor store on the 1st floor.



Where was there an Applebees that became an IHOP in Dedham? The only IHOPs I can think of along RT1/VFW are the one in front of Super Stop & Shop in Dedham but they built that brand new when they built the shopping plaza around 10 years ago and the other one is way up in the far end of Norwood near the Walpole line.



Those muffins are legendary in the Boston area. After JM closed the head baker there opened his own shop and sold them for years. He retired a while back and he agreed to publish the recipe in the Boston Herald. My mom has a copy at her house and makes the muffins from time-to-time. They also sell them at Jordan's Furniture around the holidays. They must have made some kind of licensing deal with the company that bought JM (was it Macy's maybe?). Many area bakeries claim to sell "Jordan Marsh" style blueberry muffins as well. I even was on the Cape this year and walked into a bakery in Osterville Center that sold them.

If you do some Googling, you can find the recipe all over the internet. Here's a discussion about it over on Chowhound:

https://www.chowhound.com/post/john-...-recipe-662061

This is one place I found the recipe:

https://newengland.com/today/food/br...berry-muffins/

This site felt like the typically circulated recipe didn't seem quite right and made some interesting tweaks:

https://www.afamilyfeast.com/real-jo...uffins-recipe/





I don't know anything about Saugus (not sure I've ever even gotten out of the car there). However, that must have been Bickfords.
The Wholly Grain on Shawmut Ave. in the South End claims to have Jordan Marsh blueberry muffins for years now. Haven't dropped in in awhile but I assume they're baked, hopefully on premisis, daily?

Never had one of the JM blueberry muffins, so can't compare. I think Wholly Grain makes them with a hard sugar coating, which I so hate in muffins. Did JM drop sugar on their blueberry muffins?
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Old 11-13-2017, 06:40 AM
 
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The Hill Top Steak House in Saugus, was a fabulios place
That's what I thought as well until I went a few years back hoping to catch some nostalgia. The food was okay but the atmosphere was sad. No wait, dining rooms 75% empty, felt dated.
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