Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A couple’s toast, the clicking of the utensils, fire crackles around a pan of sizzling oil: These are some of the sounds cascading ...

BROOKLINE — No one thought about the noise. Instead, the team that opened Ribelle last summer in Washington Square focused on the restaurant’s decor and inventive dishes that would soon win raves.

Whatever else readers say in article comments, on social media or in their emails to me, two responses are far and away the most common when I write about restaurants. The first is a rejection of the ...