8 November, 2018: If you received a survey card in line today, please click on this post to get to the survey link. A huge thanks for helping us improve!! Don’t forget to save the end-of-survey page to redeem for your thank-you treat from us. Click here for the Customer Survey November 2018 We’ll be closing this survey at the… Read More
29 October, 2018: I’m not too proud to admit I feel burnt. It feels sort of like post-exams from when I was in school, sort of like post-race or game. Physical and mental. And I think everybody who worked at Clover today is feeling this way. But I’m the one responsible for what was a pretty rough day. A few… Read More
29 October, 2018: Travel back in time with us to 2008. We’re rolling back prices to celebrate 10 years. Come by. Be sure you have the app downloaded, that’s where all the vintage prices will be living! Happy birthday Clover! Read More
23 June, 2010: This is Antony. He was our last dinner customer of the night last night. And as far as I know, he is our most shining example of a successful pre-order. Nearly every day, Antony comes by for breakfast, and while he’s at the truck, he pre-pays for his lunch order – one chickpea fritter and rosemary fries.… Read More
23 October, 2018: October 2005 I ate at L’As Du Fallafel. I didn’t know it at the time but this experience became the prototype for Clover’s most successful sandwich. This past weekend I took a trip to Paris with my father and my son (Blue, above). We’re approaching Clover’s 10th birthday (10/29/18) and I thought it would be fun to… Read More
18 October, 2018: For years I kept this little secret to myself. When I quit my job I didn’t think my idea that became Clover would work. I thought I’d fail. I’d been dreaming about a company that would help meat lovers become vegetable lovers. But I couldn’t find any examples of people who had pulled this off. I didn’t… Read More
16 October, 2018: The past 3 Sunday evenings I’ve gotten a knock on the door. It’s Paw Paw for Clover! I get bushels of paw paw delivered at my house. I put them in the back of my car and bring them into Clover. And we’ve been sampling them at the restaurants. Look for them today. Paw what? If you… Read More
12 October, 2018: Setting up our own pita oven was sooooo painful. But we knew we could serve better tasting pita than what we were buying from Brooklyn and NJ. Why did we think we could do a better job? I’m starting to understand flavor as nutrition. And we can make more flavorful bread by using more nutritious ingredients. We can… Read More
29 July, 2017: I closed the trucks today. Actually, I started this post yesterday, Friday. It’s now Saturday. So I closed the trucks yesterday. I wasn’t ready to post it until today. I’ll write on this more in the future. But for now I wanted to let you all know the basics. CloverDWY (parking at Dewey Square) will remain open… Read More
10 October, 2018: Enjoy this time-traveling post, from October 2008, when Ayr was first developing the logo for the “Clover Food Lab.” As you may have noticed, the logo strayed quite far from this original idea, although you might notice the descendants of this logo appearing here and there at Clover. Read on, and be sure to join us on 10/29/18 for birthday… Read More
5 October, 2018: On our order system each item has a short acronym. So if you work at Clover and take a lot of orders you start to get to know the Chickpea Fritter as CHK and the Japanese Sweetpotato Sandwich as JSP. This past week the Japanese Sweetpotato crushed the Chickpea Fritter Sandwich in sales. And even the poor… Read More
1 October, 2018: All year people ask me when we will launch the Brussels Sprout Sandwich. But right now it’s different. People are getting emails from our competitors telling them that Brussels are on the menu. They are hitting instagram feeds. Brussels aren’t in season yet, not in New England. It’s really confusing when we’re approaching autumn and you get… Read More
1 October, 2018: I’m talking at Harvard tonight as part of the Food and Science class lecture series. I’m super excited. I’ve been in the audience for these lectures for years. They started in the early days of Clover and Rolando, our chef at the start, turned me onto them. If you’re interested in joining the lecture is open to… Read More
29 May, 2009: T shirts arrived Friday. Here are our first t shirt customers. We’ll be selling these on a first serve basis. We made an edition of 50, and will retire this design after those are sold. Right now we have 18 left for sale. $30 each. Organic cotton, soy inks, made in America. Read More
27 September, 2018: Jane, Jenny and I went to Next Barn Over last week to watch the sweet potato harvest. It sounds like 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 this year that the farmers were taking the kind of… Read More