26 September, 2019: The other day, a farmer told me that it’s now illegal for farmers to eat food straight from the field. It’s a new law. I have no idea why, but I suspect it’s because so many farms are now dangerous. Pesticides stronger than anything we’ve ever used in history, nasty antibiotic resistant bugs that are evolving on… Read More
14 September, 2019: There was a big article recently about Sweetgreen, Chipotle, Dig (formerly Dig Inn) calling out their bowls as containing “forever chemicals” and cancer causing agents. Scary stuff. And it has me thinking twice when I eat out. Naturally questions came our way about our packaging. I didn’t know the answer so we reached out to our packaging… Read More
12 September, 2019: JSP has launched. And yum. I had one today. So we got that right. And Just Mayo is back. Rejoice! Clover had nothing to do with it going away nor did we make it come back but vegans and friends of vegans are very happy. Want to know something we’ve been screwing up? Coffee!!!! Turns out in… Read More
5 September, 2019: Pictured: Stacia. My favorite vegan. Happy about the Just Mayo. Just Mayo is back. Yes. It’s back. We moved to Just Mayo years ago. And when we did a bunch of our food turned vegan overnight. We think it tastes better than Hellmans. The company that makes Just Mayo (“Just” that’s their name) yanked it from distribution earlier… Read More
5 September, 2019: CloverFIN customers have seen a little kiosk at that location (160 Federal St.). We’re testing it out. And I have to admit I’m pretty ambivalent about the whole idea. I feel like a special part of Clover is making fewer people strangers. I love this part of working at Clover. I think many of our staff love… Read More
23 August, 2019: I think we’ve totally failed in explaining why our menu is always changing. What makes me think this? Daily requests for the Brussels Sprout Sandwich. And the looks on faces when we say we don’t have it. Like we’re pulling one over on them. I love this sandwich. I made it as a resistance to all the… Read More
15 August, 2019: Yesterday I was sitting in Acton with George Howell at his roasting facility. I told him about my new idea: ALT-MILK BAR. Clover will get a bunch of milk-drinks: chai, hot chocolate, pourover lattes, shaken iced lattes. All estate coffee (of course). And all non-dairy milk (we’ve been making our own in-house and it’s killer but we… Read More
9 August, 2019: We’ve turned on tipping. The bottom line: our staff are taking home a lot more money each week. That’s great. And it’s why we’re taking tips now. I’d held off on this for a long time. There is so much about tipping that is nasty. But I think technology has allowed us to avoid most of the… Read More
6 August, 2019: I’m really excited to announce that we’re opening our next restaurant at 565 Boylston St., directly across from Copley Square. I’ve wanted to be in the Back Bay for a long long time. We were counting the other day and I think we have more than 1,200 requests from Back Bay folks over the years. Forgive us… Read More
31 July, 2019: I just got back from a 3 week road trip with my family. I promised more than once to send pictures along the way but I didn’t. I’m not sure why. I think I was just enjoying being off grid. Just wanted to keep those experiences to myself at the moment. Now I’m back in Boston. Man… Read More