Fenway Thai place to make way for jazz bar
Drew Starr reports the owners of the Burren want to move into the Pad Thai Cafe space at 1116 Boylston St. and turn it into a jazz club and restaurant.
View ArticleBarrier broken: South Boston Starbucks drought east of Dorchester Street to end
Caught in Southie reports the Boston Licensing Board today approved a Starbucks at L Street and Broadway, which will either make City Point great again or result in the heat death of the universe,...
View ArticleBlast from the past in Brookline: Vittorio's kosher pizza to return
Vittorio Hassan, who ran an eponymous kosher pizza place on Beacon Street until 2003, is returning to the same location to open an eponymous kosher pizza place.Vittorio Hassan hopes to open Vittorio's...
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Newton restaurant lets you fill in another country on your culinary map
The instant she heard there was Moldovan food in the Boston area, the kidlet began campaigning to check it out. Moldova's just not a place that comes up often.So on a recent Saturday, we trekked over...
View ArticleButcherie cleared to re-open on Wednesday
The kosher market on Harvard Street in Brookline, shut since a two-alarm fire in July, reports it's passed all its inspections and will re-open at 10 a.m. on Sept. 7.We cannot wait to greet you all at...
View ArticleFenway dinner-date spots
Chris asks:Where to go for date night dinner in Fenway area?Topics:Â DiningRelationshipsNeighborhoods:Â Fenway
View ArticleFire + Ice soon to be cold and dead
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the Harvard Square restaurant is closing its doors on Monday.
View ArticleHyde Park cafe shut barely eight months after it opened
See it larger.Dave Goodrich shows us the court order and other documents testifying to the end of Salamander's on River Street - which only opened in January.
View ArticleDeep-dish pizza place didn't have deep enough pockets to pay Harvard Square...
The Crimson reports Uno has shut its doors because the rent is too damn high.
View ArticleUndercaffeinated to lose Refuge in Allston
Dave Goodrich shows us the sign that Refuge Cafe at Harvard and Brighton avenues is closing forever at the end of the month.Jennifer Lee, owner of Myong Dong, snapped up the closed Allston Cafe in 2011...
View ArticleChinese takeout in Dudley Square shut on account of yecch
A health inspector shut China Bo, 49 Warren St. this week partly due to its lack of hot water for washing dishes and hands, partly due to the rodent droppings found atop the heat lamp used to keep food...
View ArticleRaw sewage in basement shuts Kenmore Square McDonald's
A Boston health inspector yesterday shut the McDonald's at 540 Commonwealth Ave. because of a broken sewage drain that left the restaurant's basement covered in the sort of liquid that would pour out...
View ArticleIncoming Roslindale bagel maker needs dough; turns to crowdsourcing to help...
UPDATE, 12:38 p.m. Goal met.Adam Hirsh, known for the bagels he sells at the Egleston Square farmers' market, hopes to raise $60,000 to turn the bagel bakery he's building off Belgrade Avenue in...
View ArticlePru to get Cambodian sandwich shop
Boston Restaurant Talk reports a Cambodian sandwich chain based in New York is planning an outlet in the Prudential Center.
View ArticleNorth End corner gets its vegetable stand back
NorthEndWaterfront.com reports the small vegetable stand at Salem and Cooper streets has returned following a brief code-enforced absence after some 45 years in business.
View ArticleRestaurants rush to apply for five new liquor licenses that could be worth...
On Wednesday, the Boston Licensing Board hears the first 14 requests it has for the five "unrestricted" liquor licenses that became available Sept. 1 and which holders can borrow against and then...
View ArticleSubstation restaurant in Roslindale would serve up wood-fired pizza, small...
Douglass talks up Third Rail plans. See it larger.The Boston Licensing Board could decide in a couple weeks whether Chris Douglass gets a liquor license for the Third Rail restaurant he's planning for...
View ArticleCity officials have talked up East Boston ferry service for years; owner of...
Charles Larner, who owns Pier 6 in the Charlestown Navy Yard, said today he'd hire a "launch boat" to offer free shuttle service between the that restaurant and the one he wants to build on the East...
View ArticleBoard has more than two dozen applications for just five unrestricted liquor...
Board Chairwoman Christine Pulgini and today's applications.The Boston Licensing Board today held 14 hearings on requests from restaurants that want one of the five all-alcohol licenses that state...
View ArticleCity councilor objects to liquor license for Dorchester Wahlburgers nowhere...
Oh, don't worry, it's not that Councilor Frank Baker doesn't love Wahlburgers as much as everybody else - how could he not? - it's just that given how scarce liquor licenses are in this town, he...
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