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Juliet, a casual café in Union Square for breakfast and lunch, Wednesday through Friday and weekend brunch, transforms into a full service dining experience, serving themed tasting menus accompanied by poems, essay, illustration and other dynamic design and service elements by owners and Somerville residents Joshua Lewin and Katrina Jazayeri.

Dinner at Juliet is an immersive performance, like being invited to a dinner party thrown by a couple of very talented and hardworking craftspeople who really just want to treat you as friends. The menu and details of the service are planned and choreographed as a show, where the diner sits center stage and enjoys the story that Josh and Katrina have to tell.

The following poem accompanied Juliet’s spring celebration of the cuisine and culture of the French Riviera and is evocative of the couple’s formative trip to Nice and Cannes just after signing the lease for their Somerville restaurant.

on a pebbled beach

on a pebbled beach

where the sun sometimes slides

out from under

a ceaseless shallow ocean

now the only things

are sounds

of shells on stones

and smells

of salt and flowers

carried by anonymous breezes

a moonless night,

stretches black and tight

like theater curtains over the sea,

obscuring the difference

between here

and home

— Joshua Lewin, Chef/Owner, Juliet

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Doug Holder, 25 School St.; Somerville, MA 02143
dougholder@post.harvard.edu