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Proposed new Pru restaurant would fill Back Bay's unmet seafood need, lawyer says
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Atlantic Fish, and the Park Square Legal Sea Foods, and
Select Oyster, and Uni, and Jasper White's Summer Shack, and Ostra, and Luke's Lobster, and Bistro du Midi, and Douzo, and Haru, and Snappy Sushi.
But, yeah, otherwise, huge void.
Iknorite?
I was thinking the same thing.
Thanks for the list!
Don't forget
The Legals inside Copley too.
But I agree.. another fish place?
I'm okay with another seafood place in Back Bay if
it's any good. I've long said Boston's reputation as a city loaded with great seafood joints was overblown for most of my life: visitors who wanted good, fresh local seafood, I used to send to Chinatown live-tank seafood joints like Peach Farm.
Things started to change with Neptune Oyster, and have gotten steadily better since, but we still have too many tourists only visiting gloppy-chowder joints and Legal. There's quality raw bar all over town now, for instance, and not just in seafood-focused restaurants. Bistro du Midi is Southern French, not just about seafood, but the chef is particularly gifted with it, having cheffed for years at the amazing Le Bernardin. Select Oyster Bar is an example of an excellent new seafood joint, no coincidence the chef/owner ran Neptune's kitchen for years, though his menu is usefully original.
The joke here is trying to justify your place by pretending there's only one other seafood place in the neighborhood.
Why is too many fish
Why is too many fish restaurants a problem the board has to prevent?
It isn't
That's not why the issue came up. When you apply for a liquor license, you have to give some proof of the "public need" for the license. The restaurant's lawyer chose to make the relative shortfall of seafood restaurants in the Back Bay part of her justification for a liquor license on Ring Road.
What will close to make room
What will close to make room for this?
If it's really on Ring Road, it's likely not displacing
anything. I'm thinking it might go in the ground floor of the Avalon apartment tower, next door to the back entrance to Saks: maybe the only location on that short block that could support a 55-seat patio.
Perhaps
Lots of construction there above that truck ramp, and the summary did say 'residents in the building..."
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