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South Boston Waterfront to get a moving sushi experience; East Boston to get 11 flavors of chicken wings
By adamg on Fri, 10/07/2016 - 9:04am
Yo Sushi, a British sushi chain, is bringing its conveyor-belt sushi - in which plates of food glide around diners who pick what looks good - to 79 Seaport Blvd.
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday gave the chain a food-serving license for what would be the Seaport's first conveyor-belt restaurant, with hours of 11 a.m .to 11 p.m.
The chain's lawyer said it will be back before the board in the near future with a request to approve its purchase of a beer-and-wine license from another restaurant in the city.
The board also approved a license for Wing Stop, 173 Border St. in East Boston's Central Square. Owner Jim Erhart said he will offer chicken wings in 11 different flavors, along with fixins. He added he is hiring 20 East Boston residents - including several students at East Boston High School - to staff the restaurant. He plans to be open between 11 a.m. and midnight.
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Cart before the chicken?
They've built the place and have been advertizing it for a while now. What would have happened if the Board refused them? Risky or are wing places just a slam dunk for the Board...?
Well, then they'd have issues
But the board only denies food-serving licenses in very rare cases (unlike with liquor licenses, there's no limit on the number they can issue). Typically, restaurants apply for a common victualer's license (the technical term) a couple weeks before they intend to open.
The South Boston Imitation
The South Boston Imitation District continues its march towards Houston on the Harbor. Are there any non chains there (not Fort Point, which is great)?
Pretty much nope, though despite that there are a couple of
worthy places. I like Babbo Pizzeria, a renamed iteration of Batali's Otto concept, and, um. Babbo Pizzeria is pretty much it. And maybe Yankee Lobster.
The bar atop the Legal Harborside would be good if it weren't mobbed all the time. Empire is not terrible, though pricey for what it is, as nightclubby places often are. The rest of it can go to hell, in my book.
That one seafood place by Black Falcon Pier ...
Which I realize isn't the "waterfront" even though it's basically on the water, but, arrgh, what's its name? No nonsense, no frills food (and, no, not the No Name). Menino used to go there a lot.
Committee?
Not a chain, and I've liked everything I've had there. That's all I got.
Yankee Lobster
Yankee Lobster
Yankee Lobster
would be my guess.
DryDock Cafe
on its namesake street. Has to be the place you're thinking of, as I recall seeing Hizzoner there several times myself.
That's it
Thanks!
I suspect you mean the DryDock Cafe.
I need to add that one to my list.
Do you mean
besides places such as J. Pace, Larry's BBQ, Babbo, Committee, Empire, Gather, Envoy rooftop, and the opening-soon Better Bagels and Frank Anthony's, just to name a few?
The majority of the retail has yet to even be built yet. There will be plenty of locally-owned businesses as well as chains opening in the next few years.
The pieces are starting to fall into place in the Seaport.
Now if we can only do something about the slow, overcrowded Silver Line...
I did cite a few of those, and I'm a fan of Better Bagels, gave
them an award this summer, too, based on their pop-ups -- had my first ones at a brunch at La Brasa -- back before the Seaport spot was announced.
I'm with you on the notion that more locally-owned places can only be an improvement. I don't really want those ones to go to hell.
But I can't shake the feeling that the unplanned, higgedly-piggedly, pedestrian-hostile way ithat the Seaport was allowed to be developed has been a huge missed opportunity.
kaiten?
I *think* this kind of sushi is called kaiten. Different-priced pieces have different color plates, and the staff adds up the bill by counting plates when you settle up. Wasabi in the Natick Mall works this way.
You are right
From their Web site:
British Sushi?
Really could have gone another 50-plus years without encountering that phrase, anywhere.
Lol yup...
..especially with YO in the name...
Didn't work in Chinatown
http://www.universalhub.com/2014/chinatown-loses-conveyor-belt-sushi-pla...
No, but thanks to their expensive build-out, Chinatown has
the most glamorous Korean fried-chicken joint in town, Crave: Mad for Chicken. Yeah, I know that's a weird name. It does other Korean and Japanese dishes, too, including sushi and sashimi, and has a full license, but that fried chicken is really the thing to go for.
Coolidge corner neither....sorta
Didn't that Fugakyu joint used to have a conveyer belt at their sushi bar?
Fugakyu was the first to do kaiten in Greater Boston,
but ended the service five or six years ago. Instead of a conveyor belt, they had a little canal that ran along the edge of the bar, sent the dishes gently down the stream on cunning little boats.
Inspired by this thread, by the way, I and a couple of my friends crushed about sixty bucks worth of KoFC at Crave tonight. Eased the bloat with some amari at Townsman afterward.
On closer inspection, Crave turns out to have only a beer / wine / cordials license, so for spirits you only have a lot of cruddy flavored vodka, Fireball, Jaeger, The Knot, and similar syrupy junk. Beer is better with that food, anyway.