Ol' Kenmore Square

Mats notes the imminent opening of TWO bistros in Kenmore Square. He wonders how such fancy-shmancy places will stay open in a locale most frquented by Sox fans and BU students, who tend to want pizza more than crudites, and sheds a tear for the old Kenmore Square:

... I do like the new wino store, and the overall look of the place, but at the same time, I miss the laundromat (with the greatest, sweetest little family you’d ever meet) and the barber shop that had Playboy magazines in the waiting area, and, sometimes, even the worst IHOP restaurant ever known to man.