Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

Featuring Gerald Charles Dickensperforming a one man show of his great-greatgrandfather’s classic tale “A Christmas Carol”.

LUNCHEON SHOW seating begins at 2 p.m.DINNER SHOW seating begins at 6p.m.

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Hudson - Checkerboards Restaurant & Bar can make life easier during the hectic holiday season, whether it’s stopping in for dinner after a day of shopping or providing hot or cold hors d’oeuvres for parties or furnishing the pizza when the kids are at your house. And, as the restaurant celebrates its 21st year in 2012, it is off er-ing customers a chance to win a vacation trip for two to Aruba. Chris Tsiros can be found in the kitchen of the restaurant he opened 20 years ago. “We’re a family-owned business, and the owner is always here,” he said. “We start at 6 a.m. making the soups and sauces and make everything from scratch.” Checkerboards is a full-service restaurant that can seat 200 peo-ple, and Tsiros targets families as his main customers. Th e origi-nal section, with its checkerboard fl oor, is a great spot for a quick lunch or afternoon snack. Th ere’s a bar and lounge area with fl at-screen televisions if you want to watch a game, and a spacious dining room beyond. After a day running errands, the family can enjoy dinner togeth-er here. Th e menu features both comfort food - meatloaf, maca-roni and cheese, baked chicken, and baked haddock - and some more unusual entrees like lobster ravioli, pineapple sesame salmon, and grilled steak and portabella salad. Italian and Greek dishes are mainstays. Be sure to check the long list of the day’s specials. Th e seafood, usually a dozen or more choices, is always fresh, never frozen. “We’re happy to fi x fi sh the way you’d like it,” Tsiros said.

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Tsiros works hard to keep the prices reasonable in the face of rising ingredient costs. Most dinner entrees are $11.95 to $18.95, and the same entrees in slightly smaller portions are available at lunch, most $9.95 to $11.95. Th e children’s menu features meals from $4.95 to $7.95. Checkerboards’ menu also includes a wide variety of hot and cold sandwiches, burgers, calzones and, of course, pizza. Checkerboards has gift cards available if you want to treat someone on your shopping list. Th e restau-rant also has an extensive catering menu. “We can deliver and set up meals, or you can order and pick up what you need,” Tsiros said. “Everything is homemade, and we can make what you need, even if it isn’t on the catering menu.” On that catering menu are cold cut platters and hot hors d’oeuvres such as stuff ed quahogs, beef teriyaki sticks, mini spinach pies, scallops in bacon, stuff ed mushrooms and other choices. If you’re looking for entrees, you can order fresh salads, Ital-ian specialties such as lasagna, rigatoni or pasta with meatballs or sausage, calzones, and pizza and the house specialties, includ-ing marinated steak tips, chicken piccata, penne a la vodka with grilled chicken or baked stuff ed chicken. To thank customers for their support over the past 20 years, Tsiros will be holding a drawing for a trip to Aruba. Starting Super

Bowl Sunday in January, customers dining in the restaurant can write their name and email address on the back of their check. One lucky winner will be chosen a year later, on Super Bowl Sun-day 2013, from all the checks collected this coming year for the trip for two with airfare and accommodations. Checkerboards, at 10 Technology Drive in Hudson in the shop-ping center at the intersection of Route 85 and the connector to I-290, is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mondays through Th urs-days, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and noon to 10 p.m. Sundays. For more information, call 978-562-4400 or visit the website www.checkerboardsrestaurant.com.

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