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Jamaica Plain bakery seeks beer and wine license
By adamg on Wed, 12/31/2014 - 12:03pm
Ula Cafe, in the same complex as Sam Adams at 284 Amory St., goes before the Boston Licensing Board next week to seek a license to add beer and wine to its offerings, which currently include baked goods, sandwiches, coffee and tea.
The board's hearings begin at 10 a.m. on Wednesday in its eighth-floor hearing room in City Hall.
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Strange request
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of café Ula. But unless they plan on completely changing their menu and style, it doesn't seem to me a beer and wine kind of place. It's a coffee shop w/ baked goods and sandwiches, self-bussing for clean-up, etc.
Is this the type of place that the new licenses were intended to support? Or am I misunderstanding? When there's so much competition for licenses, I wonder if this is the best use for one.
Is that a Main Street district?
Otherwise, they're going to have to hope the board just happens to have a spare "old" license hanging around, which I'm kind of doubting it will.
The Brewery Complex on Amory
The Brewery Complex on Amory St. where Ula is is outside any of the Main Streets Districts. It's kind of in the middle of an empty triangle with Centre/South, Egleston, and Hyde/Jackson Main Streets on the end points.
Milky Way
The Milky Way/Bella Luna is in that complex, too, and they have a variety of taps and drinks, as well as food.
One of the best places around
One of the best places around!
Quick! Alert the JPNC!
This is terrible! This neighborhood is going all the wrong way, this must somehow be gentrification and the fault of chain corporations! We must use our magic tin foil hats to determine how to shut down any change in JP!
Bring back the Haffenreffer
Bring back the Haffenreffer brewery !
I know that full liquor
I know that full liquor licenses are basically impossible to get, but this is just a beer and wine license. Are those just as hard or does the Licensing Board have plenty of those?
Yep, they're just as hard to get
That's why Seven Star Bistro couldn't get a beer and wine license. The one, tiny consolation: When they do come on the market, they tend to sell for a lot less than a full-liquor license. The board does, however, seem to have available licenses for liquor stores.
I don't know what the criteria are but...
I can't think of anyplace more deserving than Ula. Love these guys--they are such a great fixture in the neighborhood (I love that they always seem to stay open on huge snow days so that when you go, the entire neighborhood is already there on sleds, xc skis etc drinking cocoa.) They seem to be expanding their repertoire--more funky little events, readings, etc--so expanding to dinner seems like a natural. I'm eager to see more nighttime options on this side of the tracks in JP.
What about the Old Stag ?
What about the Old Stag ?
A Beer and Wine License for a Bakery??
That is utterly ridiculous! What does a bakery need a beer and wine license for? Bakeries are generally not places where people sit down to eat/drink, or whatever.
Ah, so you've never been there
They also have events, such as artists' receptions and the like. And people keep telling them they'd love to have a glass of wine instead of a cappuccino.
Okay, well...
This:
changes everything. I admit to not ever having been to this particular bakery, and I stand corrected.