The Book of Job Award

A mere nine months after opening, Union Square restaurant Journeyman (9 Sanborn Court, Somerville, 617.718.2333) nearly suffered a roof collapse due to a freak accident. If you've walked down the narrow alley to its front door, you can envision how hard it must have been for a neighboring restaurant employee to accidentally speed his car into Journeyman's exterior. Fortunately, indoor floor-to-ceiling greenhouse shelving held up the ceiling, narrowly averting disaster. After a two-month hiatus for repairs, Journeyman is once again humming along with its menu of highly creative, modernist-influenced cuisine, and it's proceeding with plans to add a new bar/lounge in the back named - go figure - backbar, helmed by former Drink bar-star Sam Treadway.