The upcoming tasting menu-only Back Bay restaurant Asta by chef-owner Alex Crabb is slated to open as soon as January 16, and Toscanini's owner Gus Rancatore already has good things to say. He tells Eater that a preview meal was "altogether spectacular" and writes "At the end of service all the customers applauded. And I don't think it was because most of them knew the principals." [EaterWire]
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