Spotlight :: tattooS
samueL monsour
Executive chef at jm Curley “Your first tattoo is always something more traditional. You get, like, a fucking cross, or a Sailor Jerry, just something that’s kind of common, and you get it somewhere safe. And then, one day, you get the balls to get a fucking cheeseburger on your forearm that you can’t hide. That’s your breakthrough tattoo. After that, you realize you can express yourself however the fuck you want.”
WiLL GiLson
Chef-owner at Puritan & Co. “ ‘Eat’ [see cover] was my gateway drug. I knew I wanted to do the dogwood on my arm, and if I didn’t do this one, there was no way I was going to commit to the big one. I got this done in the kitchen of my former GM. . . . If all else fails, and I’m not a chef anymore, it could be ‘meat’ and I could be a butcher, ‘beat’ and I could be in a band! But after that, I got the dogwoods on my arm. The dogwoods were the two trees that were growing in front of my family’s farm and restaurant; it’s the name of my dad’s landscaping company, and when two of my relatives passed away, I put dogwood branches right on their caskets. This was really the only thing that meant enough to me to do on such a large scale.”
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ParLor PICkS Chef Samuel Monsour of jm Curley gave us an inside look as he got his latest tattoo: a monocleclad hot dog. He got the little guy inked at Fat Ram’s Pumpkin Tattoo, one of several go-tos our chefs mentioned. Here are their favorite spots for adding to their art.
Coastline Tattoo 290A Commercial St, Provincetown :: 508.487.2012 :: coastlinetattoo.com Fat Ram’s Pumpkin Tattoo 374 Centre St, Jamaica Plain :: 617.522.6444 :: pumpkintattoo.com The Gallery Tattoo Studio 1139 Main St, Concord :: 978.610.6861 :: thegallerytattoostudio. com Pino Bros Ink 1100 Cambridge St, Cambridge :: 617.250.9903 :: pinobrosink.com Redemption Tattoo 2094 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 617.576.0097 :: redemptiontattoo.com Regeneration Tattoo 155 Harvard Ave, Allston :: 617.782.1313 :: regenerationtattoo.com Stingray Body Art 1 Harvard Ave, Allston :: 617.254.0666 :: stingraybodyart.com