Poplar Street

Two restaurants go into the liquor-licensing arena, only one emerges with a license

By adamg - 12/7/17 - 3:54 pm

Zakim makes rare appearance at licensing hearing in support of Laughing Monk.

The Boston Licensing Board today chose an existing Mission Hill Thai/sushi restaurant for the one liquor license it had over a proposed shaken-seafood place in Roslindale. Read more.

Shaken Cajun seafood in a bag could be arriving soon in Roslindale Square

By adamg - 12/2/17 - 11:44 am

The Boston Licensing Board next week considers a request for food-serving and liquor licenses from Shaking Seafood, which hopes to open on Poplar Street in Roslindale Square, where Jerusalem Trading used to be. Read more.

Roslindale Square getting a Cajun seafood restaurant

By adamg - 9/14/17 - 1:28 pm

Roslindale Village Main Street reports Shaking Seafood, "a New Orleans Cajun-style seafood restaurant," will replace the large ceramic tiger and elephant statues of Jerusalem Trading on Poplar Street. Read more.

Roslindale casts wary eye at Forest Hills; residents wonder if they're next

By adamg - 9/27/16 - 10:44 pm

For the second time this month, a community meeting on a proposed Roslindale development that would be small by South Boston or Forest Hills standards raised fears that Roslindale is about to be rushed by developers who will try to completely overwhelm the neighborhood with projects far denser than allowed under a rezoning plan worked out by residents and the city only a few years ago. Read more.

Roslindale's main source of large ceramic animals closing forever

By adamg - 7/21/16 - 5:49 pm

Jerusalme Trading in Roslindale is closing

There's a new store-closing sign on the front of Jersusalem Trading on Poplar Street, which was the square's only source for beds and unusual living-room accoutrements. Anybody know what's taking its place?

Roslindale residents to seek landmark status for house Mary Baker Eddy once lived in

By adamg - 7/18/16 - 9:31 am

175 Poplar St. in Roslindale, where Mary Baker Eddy lived and worked

Residents living near the house on a hill at Poplar Street and Augustus Avenue plan to seek city landmark status to keep it from being torn down. Read more.

Finally: Roslindale gets a Greek restaurant

By adamg - 10/6/15 - 8:12 pm

Effie's Kitchen on Poplar Street, where Wapo Taco used to be, opened this weekend as the first Greek restaurant in Boston's most heavily Greek neighborhood. Read more.

Closed Roslindale Square restaurants to be replaced by new food places

By adamg - 9/25/15 - 9:42 pm

Workers have been busy lately getting the old Wapo Taco on Poplar Street and the former Bel Lounge on Washington Street for new tenants.

The new sign for Eftimia Meletlides's Effie's Kitchen went up this week above the former Wapo Taco, which closed in June after its landlord doubled its rent. Read more.

Longtime Roslindale taco place to shut doors after landlord doubles rent

By adamg - 6/6/15 - 10:45 pm

Wapo Taco on Poplar Street will close its doors forever on June 27. In a Facebook post tonight, owners Dianne and Lorenzo write: Read more.

Fire and ice

By adamg - 1/28/15 - 11:56 am

See it larger.

Franklin Einspruch reports his neighbor's snow removal didn't go too well this morning, at Metropolitan Avenue near Poplar in Roslindale.

Really jacked up in Roslindale

By adamg - 4/3/13 - 10:59 am

Jacked up house

Poplar Street

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