The Boston Licensing Board yesterday ordered a Meridian Street Chinese restaurant to shut for seven days after police once again found it serving food after it was supposed to be closed for the night.
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By adamg - 7/27/12 - 11:58 am
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday ordered a two-day suspension for the Haven, 2 Perkins St., because of an incident last month in which a police sergeant on routine patrol found the place open at 3:10 a.m. with the owner and a friend with a glass of beer inside.
By adamg - 7/27/12 - 11:34 am
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved a food-serving license for a Dunkin' Donuts opposite the Roxbury Crossing T stop, over the opposition of the local neighborhood association, the mayor's office and City Councilor Mike Ross, who argued Tremont Street already had enough places to get coffee.
Joel and Janel Silveira, who will own the franchise, already operate another Dunkin' Donuts on the other side of the hill, in Brigham Circle.
By adamg - 7/26/12 - 5:45 pm
BosGuy dishes on the progress of construction in the South End's newest restaurant, which could open up in the old Pho Republique space next month.
By adamg - 7/26/12 - 3:48 pm
The Herald catches up with Hizzona, who acknowledges he can't legally stop Chick-fil-A from opening up, say, in the space to be vacated by the Purple Shamrock:
"I can't do that. That would be interference to his rights to go there," Menino said, referring to company president Dan Cathy, who drew the mayor's wrath by going public with his views against same-sex marriage.
The mayor added: "I make mistakes all the time. That's a Menino-ism."
By adamg - 7/25/12 - 5:39 pm
A Fort Point resident is seeking liquor and food-serving licenses to open a wine bar in the Channel Center Street building where he lives.
Brian Bresnahan's lawyer, Diane Modica, told the Boston Licensing Board today his proposed Internal Matter, 35 Channel Center Street, would give the area's burgeoning population of residents and workers a place to hang out after work and "have a glass of wine and eat something special." Bresnahan, a photographer, hopes to eventually add unspecified performances to the space, Modica said.
By adamg - 7/25/12 - 3:41 pm
The Boston Business Journal reports the chain has signed a lease for the development going in where the Herald used to be.
Jason Schwartz says:
The South End getting a Whole Foods is sort of like its own version of achieving manifest destiny.
By adamg - 7/25/12 - 11:53 am
A Colombian national who got bounced from oyster shucking jobs at two well known eateries was arrested last week on charges of being a coke dealer, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Wilmer Fernandez, a.k.a. Weimar Foronda, was arrested July 16 at the Irish Famine Memorial in Downtown Crossing by BPD detectives who had been tracking his activities for several months, the DA's office says.
By adamg - 7/25/12 - 11:34 am
A group of Mission Hill residents traveled to City Hall this morning to support a Dunkin' Donuts proposed for a long-vacant storefront across from the Roxbury Crossing T stop. But a neighborhood association and city officials oppose the shop because, they say, there are already enough places along Tremont Street to grab a cup of coffee.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let Joel and Janel Silveira open a new Dunkin' Donuts at 1447 Tremont St., in a space that has been vacant for ten years. The couple already own a Dunkin' Donuts franchise at the other end of the hill, at 1631 Tremont St. in Brigham Circle.
By adamg - 7/23/12 - 11:09 pm
Boston Restaurant Talk gets some details on Ming Tsai's proposed Blue Dragon restaurant.
By Will Forest - 7/23/12 - 6:36 am
“Farmers To You” Announces Roslindale Service Starting August 1
For Immediate Release
Calais, Vermont. July 23, 2012
Farmers To You, a partnership between Boston area families and Vermont farmers, is pleased to announce the addition of Roslindale to their served communities starting August 1.
The Roslindale Congregational Church will be the pick up site. Located on Cummins Highway just a few yards from the village center, it is well suited for a community centered site.
“We have been looking for a Roslindale site for a while” says Will Forest, Director of Outreach and Communications. “What is essential in making a successful community partnership is a committed site host and a location that sees the benefits of what Farmers To You can bring to Roslindale. We are very grateful to Branwen Cook and the Chruch trustees Committee for allowing us to use their site”.
The local site hosts for Roslindale will be Holly Carmen and Christine Wenc.
Roslindale residents who order online by Sunday can pick up their orders at the Congregational Church lot between 5:15 and 6:30pm on Wednesdays starting August1st.
With weekly delivery to hundreds of families in Cambridge, Somerville, Newburport,
By adamg - 7/20/12 - 11:41 am
Driving down the Route Formerly Known as 1 this morning, I noticed there's a new Dunkin' Donuts in the rear of the Vitamin Shoppe across from the Dedham Plaza - so basically on the same site where Krispy Kreme klosed the last of its Massachusetts shops in 2007. The new Dunk's provides welcome relief to people who missed the Dunkin' Donuts a mile back in Westwood, and who can't wait for the next Dunkin' Donuts 1 1/2 miles up at the rotary with Washington Street.
By adamg - 7/20/12 - 7:59 am
The mayor is vowing to block the chicken chain from opening a location on the Freedom Trail after its president said gay marriage could bring God's wrath down on America, the Herald reports. The chain is looking at replacing the Purple Shamrock near Faneuil Hall.
By adamg - 7/17/12 - 1:42 pm
The Boylston Street restaurant had to send a manager and a lawyer to the Boston Licensing Board today to explain why police on a routine inspection on June 9 found its various licenses in a binder at the hostess station, rather than prominently posted on a wall as required by law.
By adamg - 7/17/12 - 1:26 pm
McDonald's plans to seek permission to open the dining room at its Soldiers Field Road location around the clock - after learning it couldn't do so just because a franchisee felt like it.
The outlet at 1750 Soldiers Field Rd. already has permission for a 24-hour drive-thru, but was cited by police last month after a detective found the dining room open at 11:45 p.m., customers munching away inside and a large sign advertising all-night food behind the counter, even though the dining room is only licensed to stay open until 11 p.m. In addition to issuing a citation, he ordered the immediate halt to food sales inside.
By adamg - 7/16/12 - 7:58 pm
Boston Restaurant Talk reports Presto Pizza has shut its doors forever.
By adamg - 7/16/12 - 12:25 am
The Boston Fire Department reports a one-alarm fire that broke out around 3 a.m., Sunday did an estimated $350,000 in damage to the building that houses Prezza, 24 Fleet St.
The fire, which started in some restaurant ducts, spread to the second-floor ceiling of the three-story building in which the restaurant sits. Seven residents were displaced, four firefighters required medical attention for minor injuries.
NorthEndWaterfront.com has some photos.
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