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Lower Allston to get pizza place that serves beer, wine
By adamg on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 8:09am
The Crimson reports the Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved Stone Hearth Pizza's plan to buy a beer and wine license for its planned outlet on Western Avenue.
The vote clears the way for the small local chain to turn a shuttered gas station owned by Harvard into a pizza place. Stone Hearth needed board approval to buy the license from a defunct Roxbury restaurant.
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Mmm mmm!
As soon as they open I plan to go there, get rip-roaring drunk, and then throw up on Paul Berkeley's front steps.
What I want
I am gonna suggest that for the first week they run a "Homer Simpson" special. Beer and pizza for only $10 or something like that.
Brilliant
I think that should be an official UHub meetup.
Sounds great!
I rarely venture to Allston unless I need sneakers for the narrow-footed of my clan, but this is a Must Do.
Good idea
Will follow their progress (I imagine it'll take a bit of time to change a gas station into a pizza place); once they open ...
Getting close...
Looks like opening day is imminent... time to start planning that UHub meetup.
YES - let's make this an official UHub meetup!
Can we agree on this right now? Meet-up at Stone Hearth Pizza in Allston on opening day, whatever that is, at 7 pm? Adam, what do you think?
I live in the North End and
I live in the North End and have no connection with Paul Berkeley. However, I am aware that he is an advocate for the quality of life concerns of long-time residents. I am also aware of what it is like to live in a neighborhood where many liquor licenses were brought in from other parts of the city. It is interesting that "throwing up" was mentioned because this is the type of behavior we are dealing with on a daily basis. It is easy to be short-term in your outlook when you have no intention of sticking around and are only interested in what will entertain you for the few years you are in the neighborhood. I suspect that Paul Berkeley will still be living in Allston long after "Crispino" has moved to the suburbs.
Unlike you, I live in Allston
In fact, my family has lived in this house since 1957, so I daresay we count as long-term residents of Allston.
Paul Berkeley does not speak for me.
More to the point, the students who throw up on my lawn did not get that drunk at restaurants. They got that drunk at the dozens of unregulated, unlicensed basement house parties that take place on a weekly basis around our neighborhood, which Berkeley and the Boston police don't care about.
So why don't you come back when you live in Allston and know what the hell you're talking about, okay?
Allston's kind of a big place
This isn't Harvard Avenue, where there are plenty of restaurants and liquor licenses.
It's a dismal intersection that features a 7-Eleven. Once Harvard tears down the housing project there, it'll feel even more like the middle of nowhere than it does now.
At the licensing-board hearings, Berkeley made it pretty clear his issues were as much with (legitimate) anger at Harvard for screwing the neighborhood as with the specter of drunken, out-of-control pizza lovers raising hell and careening into nearby houses. And in any case, this particular license proposal had overwhelming support from neighboring residents (aside from two people who brought up the threat of drunks) and even the city councilor (who had to listen to one of those people accuse him of being bought off by Stone Hearth because he was curious what it was like and had dinner at one of their existing restaurants).
And many of those people are parents of young children who are looking for a place in the neighborhood where they can take their kids. You know, the kinds of people you want to encourage to try to put down roots.
@ Therese (not verified)
Actually, I've been an Allston resident for 15-plus years. More important, though, is how spectacularly you missed the point of my first post.