More restaurants shut for the winter

(p)Black and Orange (Wouburn)
Back Deck
Brewer's Tap & Table (Waltham)
Cambridge Brewing Company
French Quarter
La Catrina
Rooted Cafe
Warehouse Bar & Grille
(p)British Beer Company (Plymouth location)
Bar Mezzana
Benedetto
Black Lamb
Cornwall's
Gustazo (Waltham)
Gustazo (Cambridge)
Nathalie
Playmakers
The Poynt
River Bar
(p)Max Brenner
(p)Legal Oysteria
(p) Crush Pizza (Downtown location only)
Audobon
Five Horses Tavern
Worden Hall
Elm Street Taprooom
Za
Cityside Bar
Flatbread (Somerville)
Reign Drink Lab
The Derby
State Street Provisions
(p)China King
(p)Blue Coyote (Maynard)
Hennesy's
haley.henry
The Greatest Bar
Mystic Coffee Roaster
Highland Kitchen
Rail Stop
Red Raven (Acton)
Prezza
Tonno (Wakefield)
Tonno (Glocester)
The Blue Ox (Lynn)
West End Johnny's
Fenway Johnny's
Oak Long Bar + Kitchen
Franco's Pizzeria and Pub (Waltham)
Monica's Trattoria
Delux Cafe
Time Out Market (x15 kiosks)
SRV
Tambo 22
White Horse Tavern
Shay's
(p)Bedford Tavern (Rowley)
Canary Square
Catalyst
Colette
Dali
Herrera's Mexican Grill (Transportation Building)
Game On
Little Donkey
Spoke
Summer Shack (Boston)
Abbey Lane

This list of 67 closures only covers 1 December - 24 December. I culled this list from Boston Restaurant Talk; (p) denotes a permanent closure, otherwise the closure was announced as temporary.

I'm pleasantly surprised that the restaurants in the square have been able to stay open. We've tried to order take out a bit more than usual but I would have thought at least a few would have mothballed at least. Fingers crossed for all of them to make it.

After years of being on the side discussions on a lot of this stuff I feel really weird being on the outside looking in.

In my opinion if local governments want to keep even a portion of their restaurant portfolios they need to make a real commitment. That means looking at taxes for these businesses and their landlords, if you aren't producing money how can you pay these bills? That means using money from local meals tax to reinvest into these businesses. Find ways to get those that are still open plugged into meal prep programs to get some extra money flowing.

That's just the tip of the iceberg in my opinion.