Gov. Healey last week signed a bill giving Boston 225 new liquor licenses, most to be doled out to restaurants in 13 specific Zip codes - and at prices nowhere near the $600,000 or more that most current licenses go for on the open market. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by Sherif and Nadine Farag to buy the beer, wine and liqueurs license of the failed Our Father's Deli in the Fenway for their upcoming Elephantine Bakery at 332 Congress St. in the Seaport, where they will serve up not just baked goods, but small-plate dishes with European and Middle Eastern influences from breakfast though dinner. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a request from Pimental Market, 340 Centre St. in Jamaica Plain, to expand its alcohol offerings from beer and wine to hard liquor. Read more.
Friendship BBQ, 40 Harrison Ave. in Chinatown, is seeking to extend its weekday closing time from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. Read more.
Update: Approved.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to approve Matthew Sullivan's plan to change his eponymous Sullivan's Public House at 85-87 Main St. in Charlestown into a taco joint called Town Taqueria. Read more.
Update: Board found no violations for either incident.
A downtown bar and one in East Boston had to explain fights that erupted when off-duty workers from other joints violently acted out at closing time, at hearings before the Boston Licensing Board this morning. Read more.
A bouncer at the Dublin Pub, 7 Stoughton St. in Dorchester's Uphams Corner, lost her job after she pulled out some mace she wasn't supposed to have and used it to subdue an irate woman trying to barge back into the joint after being kicked out, bar managers and its attorney, told the Boston Licensing Board at a hearing this week. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board this week heard dramatically different versions of an incident in the basement office of Loyal Nine's manager early on May 14 that led to the bar's owners deciding to shut the place for good: Either the guy was spotted attempting to suffocate his girlfriend or he was simply trying to help her up from the floor after the latest of her drunken benders at nearby bars. Read more.
A hardcore band that loves having its fans climb on stage got the Paradise, 967 Commonwealth Ave., hauled before the Boston Licensing Board this morning to explain how one of those fans wound up with head injuries in a tumble from the stage. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved plans by a trio of musicpreneurs to buy O'Brien's at 3 Harvard Ave. in Allston as part of their plans to re-open Great Scott next door - with housing on top. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved plans to replace the long shuttered Supreme House of Pizza at 313 Old Colony Ave. in South Boston with a new restaurant that would serve Middle Eastern food and fresh-pressed juices - along with pizza and burgers - between 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. - but on condition it not offer takeout. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today conditionally approved a food-serving license for a Raising Cane's at 101 Arch St. in Downtown Crossing that would let the chicken-finger chain fling breaded fingers until midnight. Read more.
A couple of men who began shouting "derogatory and transphobic words" at a drag queen grabbing an early morning meal last October at New Moon Villa, 15-19 Edinboro St. in Chinatown made things physical and when another person tried to break up the incipient fight, smashed a glass on his head and struck him with a chair, police told the Boston Licensing Board at a hearing yesterday. Read more.
Loyal Nine on Union Street downtown, which was Sons of Boston until one of its bouncers killed a visiting Chicago man outside in 2022, has closed for good, will sell its liquor license to its landlord and will use any money left over to pay "the victims of, as we all know, the unfortunate incident there," its lawyer told the Boston Licensing Board this morning. Read more.
As Boston officials await word on whether the legislature will give last-second approval to more than 250 liquor licenses for the city, the Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by developer John Hynes IV to pay $600,000 for the liquor license of a defunct downtown bar to use it as an enticement to bring in somebody to run the restaurant he wants to have in his 18-story, $600-million Seaport office and life-sciences building. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board voted today to let an East 8th Street market begin selling beer and wine, but again cautioned they are going to put more scrutiny on any future requests from South Boston markets to add alcoholic beverages. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a license that will let DJ's Market, 120 Boston St. in Dorchester's Polish Triangle, add beer and wine to its offerings. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by a downtown restaurant and bar group to branch out and buy the closed Dorset Hall, 367-271 Neponset Ave. in Dorchester, and re-open it as an Irish pub called McGonagle’s. Read more.
As a large group on Mother's Day celebrated a man's college graduation at Estella, 49 Temple Pl., two attendees at the bar got into an argument over who had dibs on the man that escalated into a large roving brawl on Temple Place and Washington Street, police and restaurant managers told the Boston Licensing Board today. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today gave La Union Market, 105 Chelsea St. in East Boston, to expand its alcohol selection from beers and wine to harder drinks, such as aguardiente from Colombia and flor de fuego from El Salvador. Read more.
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