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Get Food & Dining Headlines The Globe's most recent food stories, delivered to your inbox every Wednesday. Jujubee, of "RuPaul's Drag Race" fame, in a look inspired by an image of Buddha from her childhood living room.Eric Richard Magnussen But before Inthyrath was Jujubee, he was a Lao kid coming of age in Lowell — which is how we find ourselves together at this restaurant table, as AAPI Heritage Month gives way to LGBTQ+ Pride month and Inthyrath’s identities intersect.

What will take over the Kenmore Square restaurant space that was formerly Blue Ribbon Brasserie (and before that the long-lived, relocated Eastern Standard)? We now have an answer. Tuscan Brands — the group behind the Tuscan Kitchen restaurants in the Seaport and Salem, N.H.; Sorella Cucina Toscana in Burlington; the Buitoni pasta company; and more — is moving in, Boston Magazine reports.

The first time I visited Nine, the Beacon Hill restaurant that was formerly, famously No. 9 Park, it was late August 2025, a week and a half after the restaurant opened. I would return four more times over the next nine months, the amount of time it takes to gestate a full human, and possibly a restaurant. During that period, I unwittingly became an actor in this review. I won’t say unwillingly, because that wouldn’t be entirely true. Sometimes life happens and one goes along for the ride.