Word: wursthauser
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...inside walls and rickety wooden stairways lead to doors that go nowhere, curves around the apex of Harvard Square at Mass Ave and Boylston Street. It's three stories high, and the bottom story holds stores and restaurants--Elkins, Varsity Liquor, the Tasty, the Grist Mill, the Wursthaus, all in a blur. The top floors--this is a story about them--are white and austere from the outside, bits and pieces, actually, of three small tacked-toegether buildings. A big sign that says J. HENRY QUINN REAL ESTATE stretches across the space between the second and third stories...
DeGuiglielmo, now a Boston Municipal Court judge, says he can't talk about his role in Cambridge politics, but he can still be seen sipping coffee every morning with his brethren over at Wursthaus, as he has for the last 20 years. Although Frank Cardullo, proprietor of Wursthaus and klatch-master of the Rinky Dinks, a club consisting of several Middlesex and Suffolk County judges and a handful of registrars, insists that the conversation is lighthearted political fun, it is widely held that DeGuiglielmo plotted the coup that would overthrew John Curry in 1966 and place himself in as city...
...show up at Cardullo's Gourmet Shop at an off-hour, a sign in the door will advise you to try out the Wursthaus instead, which is a dumpling's-throw away. What this means is a racket on European foods for Frank Cardullo who just happens to own both places, but the Wursthaus...
Just north of the hi-fi jungle on Boylston St., the Wursthaus building sits in commercial effulgence, noisily crowing its own merits with pretentious signs, ornate flags and a smorgasbord-style window that is chock-full of brand-names. The decor is pretty much the same inside, and if you sit facing the wrong way, your meal will be highlighted by a neon ticker that tells you what you will want to masticate. The specialties at the Wursthaus are eastern European food and exotic beers from the world over, which all Harvard freshmen buy so they can have pretty rows...
Despite the commercialism, the "atmosphere" at the Wursthaus is very warm if masculine. The main dining room is a handsome exercise in dark old wood and stone flooring, and an occasional Germanic waitress gives the place some authenticity. The upstairs is somewhat more cheery and airy, and there's sometimes a guitar player in the corner. The Wursthaus gets quite crowded and service gets quite slow, but it's a fine place to go for a filling meal with drinks, late in the afternoon or evening...