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Owner of shuttered Daisy Buchanan's vows to re-open, in a smaller room
By adamg on Tue, 05/10/2016 - 12:15pm
Still being renovated after all these years.
The owner of Daisy Buchanan's on Newbury Street assured the Boston Licensing Board today he plans to re-open the watering hole - just in a smaller space and with a more limited menu.
Joseph Cimino, who endured countless problems with both his health and the state of his now former building at the corner of Newbury and Fairfield, had to explain to the board today why they shouldn't just take back his liquor license for non-use.
Daisy Buchanan's has been shut since 2014, when he sold the building to a developer that is continuing to renovate the building.
Cimino's attorney, Stephen Miller, told the board that Cimino is now working with "an architect, well known in the city" to design a "bistro-style" Daisy Buchanans that would feature "a very small menu."
Miller estimated his client is still "some months away from coming up with some plans."
The board decides Thursday whether to give Cimino more time to do something with the liquor license.
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Comments
Why? Just WHY?!
Of all the places to be resurrected. I'd much prefer the Littlest Bar to make a comeback... always a fantastic pour of Guinness there.
How many years did the city let this guy sit on his other
liquor license? Five years? Ten? Something ridiculous like that.
[Edited to add: it was twelve years. I gave Cimino the Sisyphus Finally Crushed By Giant Boulder Award for it back in 2011: http://mcslimjb.blogspot.com/2011/12/2011-devils-dining-awards.html ]
One wonders if he's just a license speculator, squatting on them long enough for their value to go up.
It is infuriating that people like Cimino -- and Todd English, who got to squat on his Olives license for way too long before he finally admitted that the place had finally, deservedly failed -- are allowed to get away with this nonsense when there's clearly a dire shortage of licenses to go around.
If the Mayor wants to know why citizens think his Licensing Board is corrupt, with rulings available for sale to anyone who can afford the right grafting lawyer, he need look no further than this.