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Allston breakfast boite seek beer and wine license
By adamg on Mon, 12/08/2014 - 12:32pm
UPDATE: License, extra time granted.
@Union, which replaced the burned out Grecian Yearning as a Harvard Avenue breakfast spot, goes before the Boston Licensing Board on Wednesday to seek a license to serve beer and wine - and to stay open until 10 p.m.
Because @Union sits within the Allston Village Main Street district, it would be eligible for one of the new licenses intended to encourage dining start-ups in areas outside Boston Proper and the waterfront.
Hearings of the all-new licensing board start at 10 a.m. in the board's eighth-floor hearing room in City Hall.
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YES
Hope they get what they are asking for! Sometimes I want pancakes for dinner!
hooray
@Union could benefit by trying to have cheaper & better bloody marys than its local competition.
No liquor on the table
They are only asking for a beer and wine license.
This would mean mimosas,
Right??
Absolutely!
Just no bloody marys.
you mean they're different?!
The depths of head-up-assery concerning alcohol regulation in this state are infinite.
Yep
There's malt-and-wine, which is what @union is going for and there's all-alcohol, which is where you get serious drinks.
Where it gets fun: Places with malt and wine licenses can ask to have those extended to liqueurs, which used to be fairly obvious, but the state says certain hard liquors that have been infused with essences of stuff can also be treated as liqueurs, which leads to fun police raids and hearings to determine whether that bottle of, oh, I dunno, tapioca-infused vodka (not a thing, I think) is really hard liquor or a liqueur. Then there's the difference between rice-based sake (a malt, since it's made via fermentation) and rice-based shoju (a hard liquor, since after it's fermented, it's distilled).
Cordial licenses are super
Cordial licenses are super fun cause you can have a glass of 110 proof Chartruese but not 80 proof gin or vodka.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
One day we'll be treated as adults, until then there are palms to grease!
Of course , someone that had
Of course , someone that had a beer and wine license would never think of having a jug stashed under the counter , especially near ( fill in the blank ,not spilling the beans !) .
Beer and wine licenses?
Hey Adam,
Slightly off-topic, but this seems like as good a place as any to ask if you've heard about other similar venues looking for beer and wine licenses. I signed a petition at Cafe Ula in the Brewery complex in JP last weekend, in support of their application for a license. Is this Suddenly A Thing, where city businesses that have stayed out of the liquor license fray for years or decades are going to try to make it work now that the board has shown that it's willing to issue new permits? If so, is there any listing (other than reading articles here, obvi) of who's applying, so that I can sign petitions or write letters or something? Because I'd say this is unequivocally a good thing.
Mmmmmm.... Greasy Burning!
Where else could you get "2 lare eggs with sausgae"?