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Groton becomes a destination, and you don’t have to leave the city to chill in the ski lodge

Publico Street Bistro transforms into a pop-up ski lodge for the winter months.
Publico Street Bistro & Garden
Publico Street Bistro transforms into a pop-up ski lodge for the winter months.

Openings: Road trip, anyone? Forge & Vine has opened at the cozy new Groton Inn in Groton (128 Main St. at Lowell Road), complete with an all-season patio and fireplace. Enjoy dishes from a wood-fired grill: rotisserie chicken for two, eggplant, flatbreads. There’s also a to-go market. It’s open for dinner nightly.

Mortadella Head (20 College Ave. at Winter Street) has opened in Davis Square, serving a truly astonishing array of husky sandwiches, pizzas, and other diet-busting delights, new from the team behind the Boston Burger Company. Its website promises that it will be the “best pizza and sandwich concept to hit the Boston restaurant scene.” Judge for yourself, with an Italian “pu-pu platter” of mozzarella sticks, meatballs, sausages, lasagna sticks, and calamari; wings; chicken parmesan and carbonara fries (topped with a fried egg); a “yinzer” sandwich stuffed with mortadella, salami, capicola, and fries; and pizzas. There are a few salads, too.

Elsewhere in the neighborhood, Genki Ya sushi has opened a Somerville location (246 Elm St. at Chester Street), joining branches in Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, and Dedham.

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Reopenings: Coolidge Corner’s Gen Sou En (299 Harvard St. at Green Street) reopens this month after renovations as a full-service restaurant and bar, with tea-inspired entrees, plus cocktails and sake. Nibble grilled whole branzino with green tea quinoa salad and Wagyu ribeye with togarashi spiced purple potatoes and black-tea-scented mushrooms. For dessert: chamomile crème brûlée.

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Temporary closings: The Museum of Fine Arts’ Bravo restaurant (465 Huntington Ave. at Museum Road) has closed for renovations. It is slated to reopen later this winter.

Diversions: South Boston’s Publico Street Bistro (11 Dorchester St. at West First Street) transforms into a pop-up ski lodge for the winter months. Friday through Sunday beginning in late November, lounge on flannel blankets among faux moose and deer heads, toasted by fire pits, while sipping hot cocktails — some of which are served out of custom skis. Kara Baskin

Kara Baskin can be reached at kara.baskin@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @kcbaskin.