OK, maybe he's really a stockbroker or teacher or something, but this guy photographed by Jeff Tamagini this past weekend at the Fishermen's Feast in the North End sure looked like he could jump into a dorry and haul some traps up.
Of course, what would a feast be without food? Photographynatalia also attended the feast:
I finally tried some takeout from Boston Kebab House yesterday (tandoori chicken). It wasn't bad, but not enough to tear me away from Sultan's Kitchen on State Street. What do you think?
Shangri-La, a shuttered Chinese restaurant at 138 Cambridge St. at the foot of Beacon Hill, will be replaced by the Tip Tap Room, under plans presented to the Boston Licensing Board.
Gordon Wilcox, who has been involved with several other Boston restaurants and bars, including the Rattlesnake on Boylston Street in the Back Bay, plans $800,000 and four to six months' worth of renovations to the restaurant - on top of the $275,000 he's paying for Shangri-La's liquor license - his lawyer, James Byrne, told the board. The board votes tomorrow on whether to approved the transfer of the liquor license.
The new restaurant will have room for 200 patrons, with a bar area that can seat 40, Byrne said.
Tom Clemmons, co-chairman of the Beacon Hill Community Association's Zoning and Licensing Committee, said the association "does not oppose" the re-use of the restaurant. He said Wilcox proved very amenable to neighborhood suggestions for ways to minimize noise and other impacts from the restaurant and bar, which would be open until 2 a.m. - with food served until 1:30 a.m.
Scott Dyer, who is buying Nico at 417 Hanover St., told the Boston Licensing Board today he plans to change the name to Mico.
The Atlantic Beer Garden found itself before the Boston Licensing Board this morning to explain why somebody jumped off its roof while holding a fake Stanley Cup on June 18.
It faces an additional hearing for another incident within the past month in which another man eating dinner on a waterside deck decided to take a swim as well.
Restaurant attorney Jeremiah Sullivan said the Bruins jump was not something the restaurant could have anticipated and that in response, the restaurant has installed a fence and is meeting with local police to try to keep people from scaling to the top of the restaurant's roof again. The topmost part of the restaurant is not public and already had a fence.
"How did a man with a fake Stanley Cup get over that without being noticed by anyone?" board Chairwoman Nicole Murati Ferrer asked. Restaurant manager Joseph Primo said nobody noticed the guy climbing up there because it was a very busy night.
Police Sgt. Robert Mulvey said the Bruins jumper attracted quite the crowd. "The crowd was very agitated and excited about what had happened and encouraged him to do it again."
Primo acknowledge he did not call police. He said that in hindsight, he should have, but the jumper left quickly and there appeared to be no safety issues once he left.
The board decides Thursday what action, if any, to take related to the Bruins incident.
Bit of a twitterstorm this morning over the way the owner of Emma's Pizza in Cambridge publicly slammed a customer who not only had the nerve to ask for meatballs on a "pressed veggie sandwich" but then made a scene when told that would cost extra. More specifically, on Saturday, Emma's tweeted:
where in 'substitutions are welcome' does it read it's free? Adding meatballs to a Pressed Veggie Sdwch is nasty and will cost u, dumbass.
When a follower complained about the tone of those 140 characters, the pizza place replied:
Bruegger's, which sells bagels in the Village of Chestnut Hill mall on VFW Parkway, is converting the store next door into a Timothy's Cafe, fair-trade coffee, baked goods and sandwiches.
Bruegger's bought the chain from its Canadian founders and plans to expand it across the US. The West Roxbury outlet will be either the second or third Timothy's in the US.
There's currently one Starbucks in West Roxbury, but on the other side of the neighborhood, by Roche Bros. on Centre Street.
Sgt. Robert Mulvey contemplates some of the bottles seized at Vlora, at Tuesday hearing.
The Boston Licensing Board says the nature of the booze seized from Vlora was as clear as some of the bottles it came in: It was hard liquor, which the Albanian place on Boylston Street is not allowed to sell.
The Feast interviews Jennifer Lee, owner of Myong Dong, on why she decided to replace the Allston Cafe next door to her place with her own coffeehouse after she heard Starbucks was talking to the landlord:
"I thought that would be awful for Allston, and that is nothing that we stand for."
Murati Ferrer with seized vodka.
The owner of an Albanian restaurant on Boylston Street says the whiskey, bourbon, rum and vodka bottles seized by police during a July 1 inspection are really cordials it's allowed to sell.
A skeptical Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday what to do about the alcohol seized from Vlora - some of which may contain herbs or other ingredients that might make it liqueurs rather than hard stuff. It will also have to decide whether it buys the restaurant's argument that a DJ is not a DJ if he doesn't have turntables - Vlora is not licensed for DJs - and whether the fact the place had roughly 50 more patrons than allowed by its occupancy permit is merely a technical violation rather than a potential safety hazard.
Tacos El Charro, 349 Centre St., will re-open as soon as the city issues an inspection certificate, owner Aida Luz Navarro said this morning.
Navarro told the Boston Licensing Board she was forced to close the restaurant earlier this year due to financial problems - she didn't have enough to pay for a required permit in December, and in January, NStar shut off power due to a $7,000 unpaid bill.
More important, think the Boston Licensing Board could sink its teeth into the idea? On Wednesday, the board hears a request from Sun Pizza, 46-56 Washington St., to extend its walk-in closing time from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. and to let it deliver pizzas to the neighborhood up to 4 a.m.
The board's hearings begin at 10 a.m. in Rm. 801 in City Hall.
UPDATE: It was all a joke. Apparently landlubbers like me don't know when to take a Gloucester lobsterman seriously.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports Carvel, purveyor of soft ice cream and Fudgie the Whale, is going to make a second go at the Boston market where it slowly withered and died last time around.
The Herald considers the rumors the celebrichef is about to turn his debt-laden Kingfish Hall into a Belgian sudser, even as he faces a mid-September deadline from the Boston Licensing Board to re-open Olives in Charlestown or risk having its liquor license lifted.
I was not ready to be confronted with this when I walked into the West Roxbury Shaw's yesterday (it was right at one of the entrances). To paraphrase our own Suldog, "Labor Day comes first!"
A Small Boston Kitchen reviews the Middle Eastern hole in the wall on Harvard Ave., can't stop thinking about the food:
[N]ot to be missed is the spicy chicken. A neat pile of delicately slivered meat with spiced up ends makes it hard for you to want to try anything else. But please do.
Mark Corsillo reports the Au Bon Pain on Mass. Ave., across from the Christian Science Center, is now an ex-Au Bon Pain.
Photo by Mark Corsillo.
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