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Book Your Holiday Party Today! Visit us on 30 Main Street • Marlboro (508) 480-0414 Restaurant & Coffee Shop Hours: Tues.-Sat. 6am-2pm • Sun 7am-1pm Luncheon Black Luncheon Black Board Specials Board Specials Changing Daily Gourmet Salads & Breakfast Served ALL DAY EVERY DAY WE DELIVER TO LOCAL BUSINESSES Catering Available for all occasions Homecookin’ Is Always The Best By Nancy Brumback Contributing Writer 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 offer- 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. e origi- nal section, with its checkerboard floor, is a great spot for a quick lunch or afternoon snack. ere’s a bar and lounge area with flat- 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. 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. e seafood, usually a dozen or more choices, is always fresh, never frozen. “We’re happy to fix fish the way you’d like it,” Tsiros said. Help for the holidays from neighborhood landmark 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. 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. 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 stuffed quahogs, beef teriyaki sticks, mini spinach pies, scallops in bacon, stuffed 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 stuffed 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 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. 10 East Main Street Westboro Phone: 508-870-3125 Fax: 508-870-3210 www.westboro-deli.com Hours: Mon - Fri: 6am-10pm Sat & Sun: 8am-10pm Find Us on… Located off the rotary in Westboro Center Order Now and Receive… 10% Off H l i Order Now and Receive Order Now and Receive H H C a t e r i n g C a t e r i n g • Platters • Platters • Cold Cuts • Cold Cuts • Paninis • Paninis • Wraps and More • Wraps and More • Breakfast Served All Day • Breakfast Served All Day Offer good on your Holiday Platters. Offer good on your Holiday Platters. Dorothy Clark, the bartender who has been working at Checker- boards for 10 of its 20 years. Photo/Nancy Brumback checkerboards restaurant & bar