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“Where to Find the Most Romantic Restaurants in Boston Right Now” by Boston Magazine

January 2022

A meal at this innovative BYOB Brookline dining concept will feel uncannily similar to a dinner party at your stylish co-worker’s place. With just four tables and one seating per night, you, your date, and 10 other lucky diners get to enjoy an unpretentious five-course, vegetable-centric menu prepared and served by chef Emily Vena. Plus, you can show off your very sophisticated mixology skills by pouring a mini bottle of Tito’s into one of Cobble’s house-made cocktail mixers—they’ll provide a shaker and garnish to complete the experience.

“This new Brookline restaurant wants to throw you a BYOB dinner party” by Boston.com

September 2020

“If you had a restaurant that was like a dinner party, what would that look like?” Trudel asked. “If there was no kitchen, what would it look like? If it’s only you running it, what would that look like?”

The answer, it turns out, looks like Cobble, a pop-up restaurant of sorts that, starting this weekend, will operate twice a week on the second floor of the Coolidge Corner Arcade building in Brookline. Designed to function like an intimate dinner party, Cobble’s seating capacity maxes out at a mere 12 people, inviting diners to make reservations for either small groups of two to four, or to reserve a private dining experience in one of its two dining rooms for five to six people. To give the 500-square-foot space a homey dinner-party vibe, Trudel and Vena added personal touches, like dinnerware from Trudel’s grandmother.

“The Best Boston Restaurant for Every Zodiac Sign” by Boston Magazine

April 2022

Hard-shelled on the outside, soft and vulnerable on the inside, the Cancer is a nurturing homebody type at heart. Sure, they like to crawl outside once in a while to share their (surprisingly, kind of goofy) sense of humor. But even still, they’re drawn to comforting spaces run by similarly devoted caretakers. Spaces like Cobble, tucked away in Brookline’s Coolidge Corner Arcade building. The restaurant is four generously spaced-out tables inside what looks like a very nice apartment, and chef Emily Vena is the host in the kitchen, whipping up multi-course meals of elegant but unfussy Italian-inspired cuisine (mostly, not exclusively, veggies). She serves it at a single ticketed time each night. (Yay, routine!) You can bring-your-own bottle, then make use of her mixers. Cancer, feeling quite at home, will breathe a sigh and take sip.

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