Category: Partners

Just over the Charles River in Cambridge, Curio Spice Co. specializes in directly sourced, sustainably produced spices from around the world. By forging relationships personally with farmers, Curio is able to highlight incredible flavor and quality in their blends & spices. Highlighting local, their supeq spice features 100% New England sourced ingredients loaded with umami flavor! “Supec” comes from a local Algonquian dialect meaning “ocean”.

Curio Spice Co. is a Boston-based company specializing in sustainably sourced, freshly ground spices from around the world. Founded in 2015 by Claire Cheney, the company is dedicated to supporting small farms and promoting fair trade practices. Curio Spice Co. is known for its high-quality, unique spice blends that are crafted in-house, often inspired by global culinary traditions.

Their shop offers a wide range of whole spices, blends, and limited-edition collections, with a focus on organic and wild-harvested ingredients. They also provide educational resources such as spice workshops and recipes to help customers explore the vibrant world of flavors. Curio’s mission revolves around environmental stewardship, culinary creativity, and community engagement, making it a go-to destination for chefs and home cooks alike!

Back Bay Watch Company is a Boston-based luxury watch brand known for its elegant, minimalist designs inspired by the city’s rich history and timeless style. Founded by David Wakin, a local entrepreneur, the company focuses on creating high-quality, affordable timepieces that blend classic craftsmanship with modern aesthetics. The brand takes its name from Boston’s iconic Back Bay neighborhood, reflecting its commitment to sophistication and tradition.

Each watch is designed with meticulous attention to detail, featuring premium materials such as stainless steel, sapphire crystal, and genuine leather straps. Back Bay Watch Company is proud of its local roots and aims to deliver an accessible luxury experience to customers who appreciate both style and substance. The company often emphasizes its dedication to quality, ensuring that their watches are durable and versatile, suitable for both casual and formal wear.

Located inside the Island Creek Oyster campus, the Saltery headquarters looks out over the Duxbury Bay, the very waters that they slowly turn into perfectly crystalized fleur de sel. Fleur de sel is French for flower of salt and is more typically known for its origins in Brittany. Saltery takes highly filtered saltwater, reduces it, then sets it into heated pans, allowing a salt crust to slowly form. As this crust forms, it is scraped off by hand and further dried, producing the quintessentially flaky and pyramid shaped salt crystals that is fleur de sel.

Lily, founder of Saltery, used to harvest the seawater by hand, carrying buckets up from the shore to then laboriously be filtered before being turned into pure salt. Things have gotten a little fancier since, with a pipe literally connecting their salt production facility to the Duxbury Bay itself so both transport and filtering are automatic.

Unlike almost all salts you’ll find in your local grocery store, the fleur de sel from SalterieOne is simply pure sea salt and minerals, right from the sea, with no additives like anticaking agents or other chemicals you might wish to avoid. That purity of ingredients comes through in the taste as well, with a saltier tasting punch per pinch than regular table salt! Saltery also makes delicious salty seasoning blends, with four blends inspired by the seasons.

Next time you’re in our lobby, be sure to check out their salt jars – perfect for gifting to a loved one (or yourself)!

As with many good stories, the history of Q’s Nuts starts with a love story, this one between Beth & Brian (a.k.a Q) Quinn, a pair of high school sweethearts. Q, who was working in a custom motorcycle shop, started roasting nuts at events and outdoor markets out of a mobile nut roaster. A side business and hobby more than anything at this point, when the motorcycle shop Q was working at shut down, Beth & Q decided to turn their side hustle into their full-time work. They soon became known for their incredibly delicious and wholesome snacks and haven’t stopped growing since, now with two retail locations and found in specialty shops throughout the country, including our very own Mercantile.

Hand-roasted in small batches, Q’s Nuts focuses on wholesome ingredients, extremely locally sourced whenever possible with many of their spices coming from Christina’s Spice in Cambridge and their chocolate coming from Taza in Somerville, both barely a two mile walk from their kitchen.

Unlike many roasters, Q’s savory nuts are slow roasted instead of deep fried to bring out the very best flavor as well as preserve the wholesomeness of their nuts.

Q’s sweet nuts, meanwhile, are hand-roasted at a higher temperature and a bit faster in one of two German-built nut roasters, spinning inside a rotating copper bowl which transforms the simple ingredients of raw nuts, organic sugar, and fresh flavors into perfectly-candied snacks.

Whether it’s sweet or savory, Q’s Nuts has you covered with a wholesome & delicious snack! You can pick some up right in our lobby or our online Mercantile, but they’re certainly worth a visit if you’re headed to the Boston Public Market, or if you’re exploring Somerville & Cambridge, check out their main location where they are always roasting up fresh batches of nuts, as well as serving up other local treats (including ice cream!).

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Seacoast Sweets is a family-owned and operated small-batch candy maker just south of us in Rhode Island. Originally founded in Newburyport, MA, they moved to Rhode Island in 2018 to expand their delicious candy making operation.

And it really is a family operation at Seacoast! Run by wife & husband team, Danielle & Kevin, their three kids can often be found helping cut ribbons for the chocolate boxes in breaks between weekend Nerf gun fights. Other family members also chip in, especially during the lead up to the busy holiday season, to ensure their delicious candies make their way from Pawtucket to your snack time!

Seacoast Sweets likes to keep it simple. All of their chocolates are handmade in small batches with quality ingredients. From the peanut butter filled patties made with Teddy’s peanut butter, made in Everett, MA, to throwback classics like peppermint patties to the more whimsical S’mores patties made with real Fluff, made in Lynn, MA, and part of our Fireside Experience package.

Available in our Mercantile both online and in the lobby as well as the “s’mores” in our Fireside Experience package, be sure to have an extra-sweet taste of New England with Seacoast Sweets’ beautiful and delicious handmade chocolate patties!

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We know that while finding a great local something at our Mercantile to bring back to a friend or family member (or for yourself!) might be high on your list, finding something special for your favorite four legged friend might be even more important! And that’s why we partnered with Jack’s Snacks, a local doggie bakery focused on creating high quality, preservative-free dog treats since 2004.

Located just south of The Lenox in Warwick, RI, Jack’s Snacks was founded by Marni MacLean Karro when she saw a lack in the market for dog treats made with real, whole foods. The ingredient list for all of Jack’s Snacks treats reads like a recipe you’d make right in your own kitchen – whole wheat, oats, peanut butter, whole egg, and more. Everything is pronounceable and something you’d want to eat yourself!

All of Marni’s treats are named after special dogs in her and her family’s lives. Jack’s Snacks itself & their signature Jack’s Nuts About Squirrels treats are both named after the dog love of Marni’s life, Jack, a black lab pitbull rescue who, unsurprisingly, loved both peanut butter and chasing squirrels!

Looking for something a little extra special? Check out Jack’s Snacks doggie cakes made with their signature peanut butter-cream cheese frosting and available for delivery to Boston for that special celebration at The Lenox with your pup!

Next time you’re in our lobby, don’t forget to pick up something special for your favorite canine family member or order right from our online Mercantile!

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It’s a bit of a funny thing for us to say as a hotel, that we have a potter, but we’re always looking for local partners to feature in our hotel to connect our guests with the amazing communities and people that surround us. It felt like a perfect match when we stumbled upon Tiffany Hilton Pottery in Florence MA – a six mile drive through the bucolic countryside of the Pioneer Valley from our coffee roasters, Share Coffee in Hadley MA.

Today, the custom mug that Tiffany created for us can be found both in our Mercantile as well as part of our Fireside Experience package where you can enjoy mugs of COOP’s hot cocoa and Seaside Sweets’ S’mores patties besides a roaring wood fire in one of our Executive Fireplace rooms. Forgot to pick up a mug when you were here? Order one today from our online Mercantile!

Tiffany’s light-filled studio inside the historic Florence Brush Factory, makers of the Pro-Brush toothbrush in the 1870s, is where she throws each and every piece of pottery she makes before mixing and applying her own custom glazes and firing in one of her kilns. She even hand-carved the porcelain lion head stamp from our logo that she uses to emboss the base of our custom mugs.

She originally studied fine arts at SUNY New Paltz where she was first exposed to pottery making and eventually started apprenticing for a potter in New Hampshire. Today, she continues that legacy of teaching through both her apprentice, Lucas, as well as 8 week classes she teaches out of her studio.

While her pieces could simply stand unused on a shelf as individual works of art, Tiffany’s intention behind her pottery is for them to be used, shared, and a part of your life, infusing them with deeper meaning each time they are taken out of the cupboard or filled with your morning coffee. So, next time you’re with us, consider picking up one of her beautifully hand-thrown mugs to take a piece of The Lenox & Massachusetts home with you!

You can also view and purchase Tiffany’s work right on her website.