Author: Lucia

This is where our Japanese Sweet Potato Sandwich starts

The Japanese Sweet Potato sandwich is coming back onto the menu. Enzo created this super-addictive sandwich after Farmer Ray had an extra good “bumper crop” of sweet potatoes and no outlet for them. Several years ago, I went with a group of staff members to watch Next Barn Over crew harvest our sweet potatoes, and I can still hear the sounds. Roots ripping, farmers laughing, boots squishing mud, iPhone cameras snapping. Quiet fields with the occasional pickup truck driving past. Some of the sweet potatoes were so big that year that the farmers were taking the kind of photos you’d take if you caught a big trout.

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Last day for the Heirloom Tomato Pesto Sandwich

If you’ve been by the restaurants lately you may have noticed these big flats of heirloom tomatoes on the counter. We decided to bring back an old favorite: the Heirloom Tomato! It’s super simple, designed to celebrate Kitchen Garden heirloom tomatoes in all their glory.

This time we added Pesto to the mix: mayo, pesto, sharp cheddar, a thick slice of heirloom dusted with salt and pepper, all folded into our house-made pita.

The Heirloom is going away tomorrow (Weds 9.3) to make way for a brand new…

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The Zucchini Sandwich has returned!

We’ve been fielding so many sweet emails and DMs asking if the Zucchini is back. And finally we can say it is! This sandwich is one of my favorites we do all year. There’s a thick slice of glazed tofu from Heiwa in Maine. Basil mayo. Fresh raw zucchini (from Kitchen Garden Farm and Red Fire Farm) that we cut into half-moons. Snappingly fresh corn. And shiso, which is a Japanese herb that tastes like a cross between mint and basil with slight licorice-y notes. It’s sweet/salty/fresh and (I think) super addictive.

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When it feels like an oven outside, why turn yours on? 

I’m particularly affected by the heat – ask anyone who knows me. As a Texan, I do not understand when people “don’t use their AC.” So I tend to cook less during the summer, which is sad, because I love summer produce. So a few months ago, I started asking the kitchen team if we could invent a No Cook Meal Box. Chris worked his magic and…

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Nashville hot: now playing at Clover!

It’s finally back! The Nashville Hot Mushroom comes around once a year. It’s our homage to the hot chicken at Prince’s in Nashville. Our version gives you a little relief from the spice with a cooling corn mayo made from freeze-dried corn (customers have requested to buy vats of this stuff), fresh lettuce, and dill pickle coins. Then come the mushrooms. We get Blue Oysters from Rhode Island. We batter and fry them in Plimoth cornmeal…

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In testing: The Mediterranean Smash Burger

Last year, a particularly creative Clover employee named Sasha had an idea. What if we turn our Impossible kofta into a burger and crisp it up? Our Middle Eastern kofta had never graced a sandwich (it was a side for our bowls and a catering menu item.) Sometimes the best ideas are right around us! Jasper shepherded “The Smasher” from secret employee dream to reality and now…

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Summer 2025 Farmshares Signups are live!

Clover dedicates a portion of our restaurants to CSA (farm box) pickups from 4 local farms. CSA stands for community-supported agriculture, and it’s the best economic model to support small farmers and get the most delicious produce all summer and fall. Here’s how it works. You pay up front during the spring (aka now), and in exchange for your initial investment, you get a box of produce weekly during the summer. Each farm drops off…

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The Pushpir Paneer Sandwich is back, and it has a brother now

Many of you have been asking when Pushpir will be back, and now it is! Cilantro mint chutney, squeaky paneer cheese (a fresh cheese similar to halloumi), pickled red cabbage, chickpeas, jalapeños, tamarind sauce, and yogurt sauce. This year it has a Bowl version — all the same joy of the sandwich plus warm turmeric rice, lentil date curry salad, and Parsnip Pakoras (shredded veggie fritters) made with spring-dug parsnips and other root veggies! They’re kind of chewy, deeply spiced, and intensely satisfying.

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Chris is famous

On Wednesday, our head of food Chris was in The Boston Globe! Check out Kara Baskin’s interview with Chris as part of her Getting Salty column, where she interviews people making waves in the food scene. I heard tell of Chris before I met him. My first manager, Leah, said with reverence, “One day, you will meet CHRIS!” this shadowy culinary persona who would help us out on the truck on Fridays. Finally I met him, and he was a calm Midwesterner with a knack for…

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