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“Lunch: You Deserve It”
Wonder why you hit a wall every mid-afternoon? It probably has to do what you had for lunch. Studies have shown how much more productive we are when we eat good food, and the importance getting away from your office and recollect your thoughts.
Lunch is an important part of your day. Lunch is a chance to regroup, and recharge your mind and body. Unfortunately, the typical workday lunch has turned into poor quality foods, mass-produced to provide volume not flavor. Pre-cooked foods set up in an assembly line, waiting for you to take an unhealthy lunch break, bolting down your food at your desk or on the run.
The chefs at Marliave cook all items when you place your order. Our house-prepared pastas, soups, salads, and sauces are stored cold and not preheated. We use the best local ingredients and we treat those ingredients with care. Marliave serves good food…not fast food. When you come to Marliave, sit down and relax, allow us to prepare your food to order, and take in some fresh air as you walk back to the rest of your day. May your day be a productive one.
Lunch is a meal not a snack. Treat yourself right: You deserve it.
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Holiday Parties
Marliave has a great deal of space options for private events such as holiday parties, weddings, rehearsal dinners, and birthday parties. The upstairs bar can hold up to fifty persons and offers the group its own private bar. The main dining room can hold up to sixty persons and the room is enclosed in a wall of glass windows overlooking downtown. Additionally, a group could use the entire upstairs for a party of 100 or more persons with their own private bar. The entire restaurant from oyster bar, downstairs bar, upstairs dining room, and upstairs bar, can accommodate parties well over 200 persons. The Marliave can also host business meetings, corporate lunches, and private dining events. The Marliave is very eager to work with you in planning your next event.
To book a gathering, please call 617.422.0004.
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Have your pie…and eat it too
Marliave will bake it for you. Marliave bakes pumpkin, apple,
blueberry, and Boston crème pies daily. Pies are $5 a slice,
or call 617.422.0004 to pre-order a whole pie to take home for Thanksgiving
or any occasion for $25.
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White truffles are back
This year promises to be a great year for the prized Alba treat. The opening price is significantly lower than previous years, and they are available earlier than years past. The Marliave offers shaved Alba white truffles to any dish as a 30 dollar supplement. We recommend the truffles on our new egg dishes and they are heavenly on the wild mushroom risotto as well.
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$1 oysters and clams
Served Daily 4:00 to 6:00pm
Marliave offers 4 different types of oysters nightly. We source all these oysters from the New England shores. Island Creek's Duxbury, Wellfleet, Castle Hill, and Cranberry Ledge are a few of the different oysters we have recently served on the half shell. Our oysters are presented simply with lemon, cocktail sauce, and mignonette to highlight the distinct flavor of each oyster. Beginning Friday the 8th, Marliave will feature all our oysters for $1 each from 4:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m.
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The CafÉ at the Marliave
The Marliave will be opening our downstairs coffee shop this Thursday, May 14th. The Café is located at 51 Province Street, and will be serving house baked goods, ice cream, and imported Italian fresh prepared coffees Monday - Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The Marliave invites you to come in this Thursday or Friday and have one free baked good with the purchase of a coffee. The Café prepares items to go or relax at the counter and enjoy your beverage with our head barista, Emma Underhill. Emma has worked at many fine cafés in New York City. Additionally, she has been an integral part in helping us develop a coffee shop that adds personal touch to your morning coffee, which sadly has been lost in Boston. Please identify yourself as a member of our email list to receive your complimentary coffee accompaniment, whether it is a blueberry muffin, sticky bun, cupcake, or cinnamon coffee cake.
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Go Ahead: Just Call Us Old Fashioned
A Cocktail: Ice and Mixers
Ice is a key ingredient in any cocktail, and that is why, at Marliave,
we invested in a Kold-Draft® ice machine. Unlike the ice machines
that nearly every restaurant in Boston uses, the Kold-Draft® machine
makes very large ice cubes with distilled water. These ice cubes don't
melt at nearly the rate that small ice pellets do, which insures a colder
and less watered-down drink. Additionally, we also custom freeze even
larger ice cubes for drinks like Plymouth Rock (Plymouth gin and one large
ice cube) to ensure even less melting and more gin-enjoying!
The use of soda guns is one of the great tragedies to the restaurant
and cocktail industries, and that is why we just don't use them. Like
most shortcut preparations, it produces an inferior product which in turn
ruins the quality of the top shelf liquors. Sour mix from a soda gun
is a lazy way to imitate simple sugar syrup with fresh lemon and lime juice. The
tonic, soda, and juices from a soda gun are no substitute for the real McCoy. At
Marliave, when you order a gin and tonic, you receive gin of your choice
with our Kold-Draft® ice cubes and a freshly opened bottle of Stirring
tonic on the side to add to your liking cheers.
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