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Babushka wants to sell booze
By adamg on Thu, 01/07/2016 - 7:53am
Babuskha Deli, a Russian-oriented convenience store at 62 Washington St. in Brighton, goes before the Boston Licensing Board next week to request an all-alcohol package-store license.
The board's hearings start at 10 a.m. on Wednesday in its eighth-floor hearing room in City Hall.
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How does one operate a Russian store
without selling booze?
Yes, please!
You can get all sorts off beer and wine right around here, but fund yourself hankering for some rum in your eggnog and you're SOL... (And that's a fun place to wander around and find something new to try to go along with your booze!)
Doesnt Melvin around the
Doesnt Melvin around the corner sell vodka and such? Surely rum, maybe this?
Been a while
It was quite a while since I went in there. Only thing I remember seeing on the walls was Manischewitz.
Think you got to ask at the
Think you got to ask at the counter,,,,,,,,,,
How close?
If you go down Washington, there's Dorr's and Walsh's. Neither are great prices, but selection can be okay between the two. In the other direction about the same distance is Gimbel's. Never been there but it seems to do decent business.
Then a short walk/T down Comm Ave is Hurley's and then Brookline Liquor. Brookline Liquor has probably the best selection of all the choices when it comes to booze.
But yeah, Comm/Washington or even a little bit towards Chestnut Hill Ave could do with a good craft beer/spirits store (like that stretch of stores near Sutherland).
Walk *how* far?
Yes, yes, I'm aware of all those places. I'm looking for spirits within two blocks of home however. That's why we live in the city, right? ;) :)
Good luck
Good luck to them. The old curmudgeons that make the most noise and have the most influence in Brighton (the BAIA) will be against this proposal with everything they have. They'll parrot the usual argument that we can't have this because students exist.
About a year ago a guy wanted to open a craft beer/wine store on that corner at Comm and Washington near Whole Foods. The BAIA ran him out of the room. They said that people that want that stuff can go to Brookline Liquors and that (and this really happened) "people who shop at Whole Food have made a decision in their life that does not involve alcohol". And of course, students. These are the people deciding who can and cannot open stores and get liquor licenses in town.
Just last month they opposed a craft beer/wine store on Chestnut Hill Ave run by Wine Gallery because... students.