Home Cook To Food Truck, Beautiful MA Restaurant: MA Food Week

MASSACHUSETTS — Welcome to Patch's weekly round up of food and restaurant news in Massachusetts, where we review openings, closings and more in the state's dining scene.

This week, Massachusetts has a new food truck that's the result of a passion project turned business.

Westborough resident Eric Woodman recently made the leap from cooking for friends and family to a custom-made food truck that hit the streets in March. Woodman has since brought his Simmer & Spice truck to venues like Flying Dreams Brewing in Marlborough, Rushford & Sons Brewhouse in Upton, and the Westborough Golf Club — now going on close to two years without food and drinks after the closure of Civic Kitchen.

Plus, a Cambridge restaurant was recognized for not just its food, but it's aesthetics in a recent report.

Here's what was cooking this week in Massachusetts:

• This Is MA's 'Most Beautiful' Restaurant, New Ranking Says
• Card Skimmer Found At Natick Roche Bros. Store
• New Westborough Food Truck Simmer & Spice Marks Leap For Home Cook
• Donation Callout For Beverly Bootstraps Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive
• New Rooftop Bar The Layover Opens In East Boston