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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 - 11:05 am

The Boston Licensing Board today unanimously approved plans to replace the closed Tavitas Mexican restaurant inside South Station with a liquor store. Read more.

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 - 5/19/23 - 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 - 5/4/23 - 11:39 am

The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans for a Bartaco at 100 Van Ness St. in the Fenway, with indoor hours until 2 a.m. and seasonal-patio hours until 11 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 5/4/23 - 11:04 am

The Boston Licensing Board this morning approved plans for a 16,500-square-foot Trader Joe's at 500 Boylston St., with enough room for liquor sales, but the chain says it will also keep its current, world's-smallest Trader Joes's, just four blocks away at 889 Boylston St.

"We have no plans to close our existing Back Bay store," chain spokesperson Nakia Rohde said this morning.

By adamg - 5/3/23 - 1:25 pm

Update: Approved, with a 9 p.m. closing time.

The Boston Licensing Board could vote tomorrow whether to grant a liquor-store license to Trader Joe's so it can open a larger new store in the Denny Crane building, 500 Boylston St., just four blocks from its current small store. Read more.

By adamg - 5/3/23 - 11:03 am
Janeth Millare

Update: Board requested Millare meet with the neighborhood group, but said it didn't want to hold her up when the mayor's office told her she didn't have to, so approved her license.

The Boston Licensing Board could decide tomorrow whether to grant a food-serving license to Janeth Millare to open Pinoy Kabayan Filipino Asian Cuisine at 71-73 Broad St. downtown.
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By adamg - 5/2/23 - 1:25 pm

A woman told she couldn't bring a bottle of beer with her at closing time at Barney's Grill, 299 Havre St. in East Boston, reacted by hurling the bottle at the bartender, hitting her in the chest, the bartender and police told the Boston Licensing Board today. Read more.

By adamg - 5/2/23 - 12:56 pm

Members of the Benevolent and Protective Order Of Elks lodge in Brighton Center have been told they can no longer freely move from their bar into private parties at the lodge's function room after police on a snap inspection dinged the place for having too many people stuffed in the function room. Read more.

By adamg - 4/27/23 - 1:41 pm

A Brighton Center liquor store that had become known as the place for Boston College students to buy booze says it's bought a new license scanner with which to bar underage drinkers with fake licenses, even as Boston Police step up stakeouts there to nab Eaglets with a thirst for beverages that should still be two or three years beyond their grasp. Read more.

By adamg - 4/26/23 - 11:00 am
Omar and Brandon Melendez

Omar and Brandon Melendez.

Update: Approved.

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let an East Boston father and son buy the liquor license of the closed Jeveli's, 387 Chelsea St. in East Boston, to open a 218-seat restaurant dedicated to tapas based on cuisines from around the world. Read more.

By adamg - 4/7/23 - 11:21 am

Transit Police say they remain as opposed to a proposed full-service liquor store at South Station as they were to a smaller liquor kiosk proposed last year. Read more.

By adamg - 4/6/23 - 11:58 am

A company that once proposed a grab-and-go alcohol kiosk in the middle of South Station is back with plan to convert the failed Tavitas Mexican restaurant space into a glass-enclosed liquor store. Read more.

By adamg - 4/5/23 - 2:25 pm

Update: Name change approved.

The Boston Licensing Board tomorrow decides whether to let the owners of the Sons of Boston, 17 Union St., change its name to the Loyal Nine. Read more.

By adamg - 4/4/23 - 4:12 pm

Update: Board found violation, issued warning.

The manager at a Fenway bar says that before a woman - underaged, it turns out - collapsed on the dance floor and began foaming at the mouth, she tried to get in with "five or six small airplane bottles" of booze in her purse. Read more.

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