Providence packed plenty into its few square miles over the past year, turning Station Park into a home base for summer soccer, welcoming music and comedy back to the restored Uptown Theater, and watching Loma, a tiny Federal Hill cocktail bar, take home the James Beard Award for Best New Bar. New restaurants settled into mills, hotels, and neighborhood storefronts along the way, while familiar blocks found fresh ways to keep us lingering. All of which makes our namesake city as difficult as ever to fit neatly between two covers. What follows is our latest way through Providence, from morning coffee to last call, with shops, galleries, stages, green spaces, and a few detours worth taking along the way.
Not that we need validation, but these international affirmations feel good. Over the summer, the Creative Capital was ranked number five on Food and Wine’s list of “Emerging Cities” in the US and was featured on Today as one of the top places to celebrate Independence Day. Gift Horse’s Sky Hanuel Kim was awarded Best Chef Northeast by the James Beard Foundation, and we landed on the UK-based The Times’ 10 Best Cities to Visit in the US. We love our namesake city and are pleased to devote this issue to exploring its streets, shops, eateries, and more!
