{"id":73,"date":"2022-12-28T12:02:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T12:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/bedford-takeout-and-the-mystery-of-love-energy-food\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T15:30:00","slug":"bedford-takeout-and-the-mystery-of-love-energy-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/bedford-takeout-and-the-mystery-of-love-energy-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedford Takeout and the Mystery of &#8220;Love Energy Food&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_8184.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<p>Grilled or blackened wings with an herb garnish and a hot sauce drizzle, packed in a plain pizza-style takeout box &mdash; and stuck to the bag, a sticker reading <strong>LOVE ENERGY FOOD<\/strong> in yellow text I could not fully make out. Is that the restaurant&#8217;s name? A delivery service&#8217;s branding? A koan I&#8217;m meant to sit with? I genuinely don&#8217;t know, and at this point I&#8217;ve decided I don&#8217;t want to, because &#8220;Love Energy Food&#8221; might be the single best unexplained detail in this entire archive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you&#8217;re in the area anyway:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/refuge\/great-meadows\">Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge<\/a> is a beautiful, easy walk if you need to think about &#8220;Love Energy Food&#8221; some more in a peaceful setting.<\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Update: Solved \u2014 Craft Food Halls, Revolution Hall<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Love Energy Food&#8221; isn&#8217;t a mystery brand \u2014 it&#8217;s the tagline of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.craftfoodhalls.com\/revolution-hall-lexington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Craft Food Halls\u2019 Revolution Hall<\/a>, 3 Maguire Rd (right on the Bedford\/Lexington line, which explains the &#8220;Bedford&#8221; label). The coordinates land exactly on the building, and the Sousviderie vendor there serves Maple Smoked Wings that match the grilled, herb-garnished plate in the photo. This one&#8217;s about as solved as these get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"220\" style=\"border:1px solid #f0d9b8;border-radius:10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/export\/embed.html?bbox=-71.26671%2C42.4692%2C-71.25471%2C42.476200000000006&#038;layer=mapnik&#038;marker=42.4727%2C-71.26071\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Map\"><\/iframe>\n<p style=\"font-size:0.8rem;margin-top:0.3em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/?mlat=42.4727&#038;mlon=-71.26071#map=17\/42.4727\/-71.26071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View on OpenStreetMap<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grilled or blackened wings with an herb garnish and a hot sauce drizzle, packed in a plain pizza-style takeout box &mdash; and stuck to the bag, a sticker reading LOVE ENERGY FOOD in yellow text I could not fully make out. Is that the restaurant&#8217;s name? A delivery service&#8217;s branding? A koan I&#8217;m meant to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wingblog_latitude":42.4727,"wingblog_longitude":-71.26071,"wingblog_city":"Bedford","wingblog_state":"Massachusetts","wingblog_photo_date":"2022-12-28","wingblog_venue_type":"restaurant","wingblog_venue_name":"Craft Food Halls \u2013 Revolution Hall","wingblog_venue_url":"https:\/\/www.craftfoodhalls.com\/revolution-hall-lexington","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[63,14,13,19,16],"wing_location":[62],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wings","tag-bedford","tag-massachusetts","tag-restaurant","tag-takeout","tag-unidentified-venue","wing_location-bedford-massachusetts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"wing_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wing_location?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}