Winning bidder will receive a $25 gift card to be used at any of the Grafton Group's family of restaurants, including Park, Russell House Tavern, Temple Bar or Grafton Street in Cambridge.  The gift certificate is redeemable anytime Sunday - Wednesday for food and drink.  It cannot be used to cover tax and gratuity.  Certificate expires on April 1, 2016.

About Grafton Group Restaurants:

The Grafton Group, one of Harvard Square’s largest locally-owned families of restaurants, has been around since 1996. In the nearly twenty years since the group’s founding, it has been a witness to a Square in flux. And the Grafton Group’s polished menus and tasteful decor themselves are part of a longer Square trend away from greasy-spoon diners and toward the upscale.

“The initial vision…was to have that pub atmosphere combined with a full service restaurant,” says Patrick Lee, the group’s owner, who co-founded Grafton Street Pub and Grill in 1996 with partners Peter Lee, Sean Kennedy, and Gerry Sheerin. In true Harvard Square fashion, he has a Boston accent.

“Back then there weren’t a lot of places that had that comfort factor that a neighborhood pub would give you and combine that with really great food,” Patrick Lee says.

The Group’s initial creation is Grafton Street Pub and Grill, a grown-up spot on Bow Street whose slick leather seats and sidewalk dining are a siren call to the over-21 crowd. Its drink menu and short walk from Adams House may be equally appealing.

Since the founding of Grafton Street, the Group has opened three other locations: Temple Bar in 1998, Russell House Tavern in 2010, and PARK Restaurant and Bar in 2012, which replaced Redline Food + Drink after a nine-year stint. The three newer locations make the Grafton Group a Square force to reckon with, comparable to the Crema-Flat Patties-Felipe’s trifecta (owned by daughter, father, and father-with-business-partner, respectively). According to Lee, his restaurants’ various locations cater to different markets, or micro “neighborhoods” within the Square: the Business and Kennedy School students on JFK street, the lawyers on Mass. Ave., and the tourists by the T.

Link is www.graftongroup.com