East Coast Grill & Raw Bar, commonly known as East Coast Grill, was a seafood and barbecue restaurant
in the
Inman Square neighborhood of
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is a suburb in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, located directly across the Charles River from Boston. The city's population as of the 2020 United States census, ...
. It was opened by
Chris Schlesinger in 1985. The restaurant was famous for their annual Hell Night which focused on super-spicy foods.
The restaurant was sold in 2012 to James Lozano, executive chef Jason Herd, and general manager Robin Greenspan. It closed permanently in 2016.
Legacy
The Boston dining scene, before they opened, was “ fancy, pricey and …a tad stodgy … (but East Coast Grill) managed to change the course of Boston’s dining future.”
Staff included Andy Husbands
and
Tony Maws
Tony Maws (born 1970) is an American chef and restaurateur. Maws was the chef/owner of the former Craigie on Main (once called Craigie Street Bistrot) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Early years
Raised in Newton, Massachusetts, Tony Maws attended t ...
Television
The restaurant was featured on
Season 1, episode 8 of ''
Man v. Food''.
It was also featured in his show ''
Amazing Eats'' and on season 12 of ''
Food Paradise
''Food Paradise'' is a television series narrated by Jesse Blaze Snider (formerly by Mason Pettit) that features the best places to find various cuisines at food locations across America. Episodes were originally shown on the Travel Channel. O ...
''.
Hell Night
Schlesinger called Hell Night a “Boston institution.”.
In 2011, an ambulance had to be called for a diner who passed out from the food.
People who participated had to sign a Liability waiver.
See also
*
List of defunct restaurants of the United States
*
List of seafood restaurants
References
{{Restaurants in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Restaurants in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Inman Square