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Sibling non-rivalries: Family food without the family feud

Family food doesn’t necessarily lead to family feuds

Many veterans of the restaurant industry liken working in the kitchen, serving tables, and spending hours with the same people every day to being part of a family. But for those who own and operate restaurants with their brothers and sisters, their restaurants are tru extensions of their homes and families. Sibling-run restaurants are places where the ties of brother- and sisterhood can sometimes be tested, and the line between professional and personal relationships is blurred to near-invisibility.

When we set out to write a story about these restaurants, we were expecting to hear salacious tales of sibling rivalry and middle-child syndrome. But for the restaurateurs we spoke with, working with a brother or sister (and sometimes
By Erin Souza | November 17, 2008

Bin 26 Enoteca’s grilled Mediterranean sea bass

Where else in the city can you get haute Iranian cuisine served in a modestly elegant setting?

Simple’s the new fancy

By KENJI ALT | April 02, 2008

Bin 26 Enoteca

The little space that used to be Torch has been taken over by Babak Bina and Azita Bina-Seibel of Lala Rokh.
Whine and whimsy in Beacon Hill
By ROBERT NADEAU | November 14, 2006