Suit: This town not big enough for two Living Rooms

The Living Room, an Atlantic Avenue restaurant, filed suit yesterday against Starwood Hotels, which is about to open a restaurant called the Living Room in its new W hotel on Stuart Street in the Back Bay.

In its suit, filed in US District Court in Boston, the original Living Room says the new Living Room would confuse Boston diners, that it's trademarked the name for use as a restaurant and that it was here first - it opened in 2002. The W Living Room is scheduled to open on Thursday.

Complete Living Room complaint.

Globe story in which the reporter worries we're not hip enough for a W hotel.

Earlier:
The restaurant tomato fight.