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Two years after shuttering his iconic neighborhood ice cream parlor, the dude behind the Harvard Sqr Herrell's has painstakingly overhauled the spot into a casual, something-for-everyone "boots & suits" eatery specializing in regional seafood and new American sustenance with a Southern flair, all on a historic site that purportedly once housed British America's first printing press, or as they called it, "the thing we use to anonymously talk ish about John Adams' height".

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The Digs: An 18-seat handmade mahogany/ maple horseshoe bar anchors the expanded, wood-heavy 31-table space that's maintained its popular in-vault dining (NOTE: you do not need to go to the FiDi pick-up bar to eat here) while losing the ice cream coolers and colorful murals, and adding industrial filament lighting and exposed brick/ cayenne-red walls hung with varnished letterpress type cases and framed antique newspapers/ maps/ political cartoons.

Burly Fare: All-day ocean-to-farm eats range from wild boar carbonara with smoked Gouda, to bourbon-ale-braised pork shank w/ smashed potatoes, to a "holy crap, I'm in the Everglades" Swamp Bowl chock-full of fried gator, frog legs & steamed mudbugs (crawfish, son!) that's sided with seasoned pork belly chips, which surely won't help rid you of that Ponch.

Libations: Sip on 10 drafts (Rapscallion Blessing, Cisco Whale's Tale, Brooklyn Lager), 20 bottles (Kronenbourg 1664, Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale, Full Sail, 22oz of JK's Scrumpy), small-batch wines, and cocktails like their take on the Charleston-born Planter's (or Printer's) Punch mixed with fresh-squeezed citrus/ spiced rum/ Bulleit and a float of Vinho Verde -- though take it down too fast and your stay at FP will, like Adams, be much shorter than anyone really imagined.

_{Photo Credit: William Horne}

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