Financial District to get micro-food hall

The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans for a three-stall food hall-ette where a Starbucks used to be at 45 Broad St. downtown.

The Eatery on Broad will feature three food "concepts" - Mini Donut Diva, Pasta Factory and Fat Sandwich Boss, which will share 18 seats but which will rely heavily on take-out business, manager Taher Ali told the board. He said the three options were chosen not to really compete with each other but to instead supply as much of a "sweet and savory" food spectrum as one can fit into a 1,500-square-foot space.

Ali said there is "plenty of space" next to and near the space to allow for quick parking by food-delivery operators in cars and on scooters to get in and out without creating the sort of sidewalk and parking gridlock seen in front of some other take-out places in the city.