4 February, 2016: Day 2 here at CloverDTX. I walked in this morning at 6:10am. Jasper and team were already well into the pre-open routine. They are moving quickly, laughing here and there. There is still a light smell of new paint. Not offensive, sort of nice. And the popovers are just going in the oven, you melt the butter just to the edge… Read More
6 January, 2016: I took my mom to CloverDTX over Christmas weekend to do something that’s become a Clover pre-open tradition since we opened CloverKND. We ask the contractors to paint over the windows with white paint. Then we use a blade to scrape out little windows, and I write messages in the windows. If you want to see for yourself, head… Read More
17 December, 2015: Julia is the reason that Boston is going to be eating more Clover in 2016. Here she is turning the key for our newest location on School Street in downtown Boston. Julia is our first-ever Construction Manager. She supervises the dance between architects, inspectors, landlords, engineers, and city officials. Before Julia came into our lives, Ayr was doing all of… Read More
15 December, 2015: If you’re near 27 School Street, go and peek in the windows of CloverDTX. If you’re not, here’s the Week 3 video. I was at the site yesterday. Steve, a man walking by, told me he’s worked in the area for 30 years. He said before this was a Boloco, it was a Kabloom. Before it was that, he can’t… Read More
19 November, 2015: Boston, we’re crossing the river. VIDEO TOUR CLOVERDTX We think of ourselves as a Boston company, but Clover has never had a restaurant in Boston. We started out of a shared facility over in Jamaica Plain, and that was the closest we’ve come. Of course we’ve done lots of truck time, ours was the first new food truck… Read More