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By adamg - 6/2/23 - 4:23 pm

The owners of five North End restaurants who claimed a fee only North End restaurants had to pay to serve diners on public property was proof Mayor Wu hates White Italian men, even though two of them are women and another of Hispanic origin, this week asked a federal judge to let them drop their lawsuit over the fee. Read more.

By adamg - 5/30/23 - 11:23 pm

A Boston health inspector today gave Los Amigos, 1741 Centre St. in West Roxbury, permission to re-open after an inspection found no problems. Read more.

By adamg - 5/30/23 - 11:02 am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports the demise of Georgetown Cupcake - named for the DC neighborhood - on Newbury Street.

By adamg - 5/27/23 - 12:26 pm

A Boston health inspector this week ordered the closing of Dumpling Cafe, 693 Washington St. for a variety of health-code violations, including storing cut-up produce in an old chicken box and a broken water heater, which meant the kitchen dishwasher couldn't properly sterilize dishes and workers had no hot water for washing their hands. Read more.

By adamg - 5/25/23 - 11:21 pm
Tori Japan location in Hyde Park

The Boston Licensing Board today gave Tori Japan permission to move into the space where Crab du Jour replaced the Pizza Hut that replaced the Taco Bell, in the America's Food Basket mini-mall at at 950 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park. Read more.

By adamg - 5/25/23 - 3:24 pm

The Boston Licensing Board today unanimously approved a request from DaCoopas Pizza, 474 Saratoga St. to let its customers bring their own beer or wine with which to enjoy a pie or sub outdoors. Read more.

By adamg - 5/25/23 - 2:41 pm

The Boston Licensing Board today approved a request by Black Seed to extend its closing time from 2:30 a.m. to 3 a.m. in its new location one door down from its old one on Tremont Street in Downtown Crossing. Read more.

By adamg - 5/25/23 - 12:44 pm

The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans for a 14-lane bowling alley at Hood Park off Rutherford Avenue - and the operators' proposal to buy the liquor license of the former Dogwood Cafe in Jamaica Plain for keglers and diners. Read more.

By adamg - 5/25/23 - 9:02 am

The Dorchester Reporter visits the new the Edgewater Drive Food Forest, created on a 6,000-square-foot city-owned vacant lot.

By adamg - 5/24/23 - 11:42 am

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let Black Seed extend its closing time from 2:30 a.m. to 3 a.m. at its location on Tremont Street downtown. Read more.

By adamg - 5/22/23 - 3:58 pm

A woman who says she ate at the Brighton Center Los Amigos last Wednesday today sued the restaurant for the salmonella infection that hit her full force on Friday - one day after a city health inspector ordered the 366 Washington St. restaurant shut due to a salmonella outbreak linked to it. Read more.

By adamg - 5/20/23 - 9:45 am

Update, 5/30: Restaurant allowed to re-open.

A city health inspector yesterday shut Los Amigos, 1741 Centre St. in West Roxbury, for a variety of violations, including hot foods not being kept hot enough, cold items not being kept cold enough, employees not following basic sanitary practices and rodent droppings. Read more.

By adamg - 5/20/23 - 12:01 am

NBC Boston reports city and state health officials are investigating a salmonella outbreak linked to Los Amigos, 366 Washington St. in Brighton Center. Read more.

By adamg - 5/19/23 - 5:43 pm

Marino's goes before the Boston Licensing Board next week for permission to add beer and wine to its offerings at its store at Centre and Park streets in West Roxbury. Read more.

By adamg - 5/19/23 - 5:26 pm

Correction: The 11 p.m. closing time originally listed here was for the restaurant space Black Seed is moving into. Its current location, next door, lists a 2 a.m. closing time.

Black Seed, 140 Tremont St., goes before the Boston Licensing Board next week to seek permission to extend its closing time from the current 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 5/18/23 - 9:17 pm

Banker & Tradesman reports the Barking Crab on Fort Point Channel is seeking state permission to add a 1,900-square-foot barge to increase its patio seating.

Via Boston Restaurant Talk.

By adamg - 5/16/23 - 11:28 am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports a couple of East Boston residents are on track to turn the blue caboose at the start of the Mary Ellen Welch Greenway (formerly the East Boston Greenway) into a stand selling ice cream and coffee called, naturally, the Blue Caboose. Read more.

By adamg - 5/11/23 - 9:28 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports on plans to turn the former Caribe restaurant into a taqueria.

By adamg - 5/8/23 - 12:31 pm

Back in the day, you could buy popcorn on the Green Line, but these days, with everybody on a hair trigger and their last nerve, the T now tells us you're not supposed to eat on the train or bus. Read more.

By adamg - 5/7/23 - 5:09 pm

Martin Owens asks:

There are no good tea shops in Boston any more. Since Tealux closed down, we've been limping by on bobatea and coffee and it's just not the same.

Anyone know of anything?

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