Updated after today's council meeting.
Cambridge officials will take a look at emulating former Medford resident and current New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's edict against soda drinks larger than 16 oz., Saul Tannenbaum reports.
The Boston Foodie reports people stood in line for two hours on Saturday for the opening of a new cupcake joint on Newbury Street:
A Dunkin' Donuts franchisee goes before the Boston Licensing Board next week for permission to open a new Dunk's at 895 Morton St., near the commuter-rail stop - and just down the road from Regal Donuts.
The proposed donuterie would be open 5 a.m. to midnight and have a drive-thru.
Cissy Huang is left feeling unpleasantly stuffed after consuming an entire oyster burger at Grass Fed in Jamaica Plain:
I mostly blame the remoulade.
Mark Levy at Cambridge Day noticed that three of the winners in a Boston Magazine "Best New England Craft Beers" article are based in Cambridge and Somerville, so he called them up to talk about local brewing:
There seems to be a lot of Cambridge and Somerville in the package. Is there a reason?
Todd English goes before the Boston Licensing Board next week to explain why it shouldn't strip him of the liquor license for Kingfish Hall, the Faneuil Hall Marketplace restaurant he recently closed in a nasty rent dispute with marketplace management.
By law, holders of liquor licenses - which in Boston now typically go for $300,000 or so on the open market - are not allowed to sit on them after their restaurants close.
The grocery store goes before the Boston Licensing Board next Wednesday for permission to sell prepared food for consumption on the premises - including on a 16-seat outdoor patio it wants to operate in nice weather between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m.
Licensing board hearings start at 10 a.m. in the board's 8th floor hearing room at City Hall.
Wicked Local Allston/Brighton reports on an incident at the Allston Domino's early on May 28.
Almost everything else there has closed, Bertucci's joins the club, forcing fans of pizzas with an olive in the middle to make the long, long journey over to West Roxbury.
Pop Bop Shop finds both good and meh at Patricia Yeo's Moksa in Cambridge:
Overall, I found Moksa to be confusing. Does it want to be an Asian restaurant or a night club? How can it have dishes that are incredible as well as dishes that taste like nothing? Why was our waiter attentive for the first hour and then he vanished?
The Boston Licensing Board today gave the Avenue Bar and Grill on Comm. Ave. permission to extend its closing time from 1 to 2 a.m.
Some residents of a neighboring condo building objected, as did the offices of the mayor and City Councilor Mark Ciommo, but the board agreed with owner Douglas Bacon that he's run a fine operation with no problems since he bought the place a year ago and that he deserves to offer service as late as other nearby establishments for customers getting off late shifts. Bacon told the board he would serve food right until closing.
Sooner or later, every single New Yorker who moves up here does what Tara Vuono did and ask:
Best bagels in/around Boston? (from an ex-NYer, and yes I know it's cliche to miss the bagels and pizza)
Plans for an upscale steakhouse on Washington Street are back on track now that owner Brian Piccini has found another restaurant willing to sell him its liquor license.
The Boston Licensing Board votes tomorrow whether to let Piccini pay the owners of the Columbus Cafe on Columbus Avenue $280,000 for their liquor license so he can open his Boston Chops at 1375 Washington St. Piccini, who earlier opened dbar in Dorchester and Deuxave in the Back Bay, has promised "an urban, modern steakhouse concept."
The Boston Licensing Board votes tomorrow on a request from local restaurant operator Douglas Bacon to buy the Siansa Pub on Westland Avenue, gut it and turn it into a place symphony attendees might want to go to.
Bacon said the area is currently "vastly underserved" with upscale dining options. If the board approves, he'll spend $500,000 to buy the pub - some $275,000 of that just for its liquor license. He said he'd then spend well in excess of $100,000 in renovations.
Representatives of both the mayor's office and City Councilor Mark Ciommo agreed that Douglas Bacon is a fine restaurateur who runs quality restaurants. And yet both told the Boston Licensing Board today they oppose Bacon's request to extend the hours of his Avenue Bar and Grill in Allston an hour, to 2 a.m.
Steve reports Southie's PS Gourmet Coffee is now officially open at the old Loonie's Liquors location.
Ed. note: Cool beans and all, but shouldn't they have called it Crazy Coffee?
Last year, Gordon Ramsay showed up at Davide for his Kitchen Nightmares show. This week, he was in town attending to La Galleria on Salem Street. And leaving behind quite the mess, a disgusted citizen complains.
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