Daily Briefing: RI's summer tastes so good

ALSO: 🖋️ Sound familiar? Mass. lawmakers hear support for banning billboard advertisements for marijuana Advertisement [eNewspaper]( | [Crosswords]( | [Horoscopes]( [Read in browser]( [Read in browser]( The Daily Briefing YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP Thu Sep 21 2023 Will Richmond | Managing Editor Communities & R.I. [@Will_Richmond]( Good morning, I'm Will Richmond at The Providence Journal and this is the Daily Briefing. When we get the chance to dine out, especially without the kids, there's almost always that dance that I'm sure my wife and I aren't the only ones to perform. Where do you want to go eat? I don't know...how about (insert restaurant)? While on occasion we have our eyes on going somewhere new, when we don't have a reservation or are going spur of the moment we tend to end up at one of our favorites. But both favorites and new spots have provided memorable bites. Recently our executive editor Lynne Sullivan asked everyone here at The Providence Journal what the best thing they ate this summer was. [Old Green Eyes.jpg] Old Green Eyes from Mother Pizzeria in Newport has gin (or vodka), pistachio, Cocchi Americano and lemon. Provided Photo/Eryn Dion For me, one of the most memorable came during a family dinner at Spain of Narragansett and a Pork Osso Bucco special they offered in mid-July. (It's not in the story since it wasn't in Rhode Island, but the spinach, ricotta, garlic pizza from Brickyard Hallow in Portland, Maine, may have been the best bite I had anywhere this summer.) But some of the others that participated in this informal poll left me with some mouth-watering options I haven't tried yet – I've been thinking about the garlic knots cacio e pepe at the new Mother Pizziria in Newport since reading the story. If you're looking for the next must-try dish, [check out what The Journal staff had this summer and give it a try.]( Subscribe to The Providence Journal and gobble up savings with [our latest subscription offer](. WORTH A READ 🏛️ [Time is running out for Speaker Kevin McCarthy]( as government shutdown looms: 5 takeaways 🖋️ Sound familiar? Mass. lawmakers hear support for [banning billboard advertisements for marijuana]( 📰 Reader's Digest named this RI spot [one of the 'Nicest in America']( in annual kindness search [Today's Weather]( ☀️ Sunny and nice; great day to be outside. Highs in the mid-70s. TOP STORIES [Why a judge just tossed a lawsuit challenging RI's new beach access law]( [The Pacific Legal Foundation, which is fighting Rhode Island's new shoreline access law, hired a plane to fly a banner saying "RI TAKES PRIVATE PROPERTY" in July.]( Judge Smith dismissed the suit after ruling that the coastal taxpayers group failed to prove that the defendants enacted the new law. 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