The Boston Licensing Board tackles pizza next week when it considers two requests from restaurants to serve slices into the wee hours.
Bravo Pizza, 160 Brighton Ave., which already has permission to stay open until 2 a.m. Weds.-Sat., wants permission to dish pizza until 3 a.m. every day of the week. Stephen Silverman is requesting a license to open a new place, Ecco Pizzeria, at 1147 Commonwealth Ave., with proposed hours of 7 a.m. to 2 a.m. Silverman will also be seeking city permission for 10 outdoor seats on the sidewalk out front - until midnight.
Coupled with the arrival of Regina Pizzeria on Cambridge Street and the proposed Stone Hearth Pizza on Western Avenue, Allston could rival West Roxbury for the number of pizza places per capita.
Meanwhile, in a three-way maneuver, Big City at Brighton and Harvard avenues has proposed buying the full liquor license of the defunct Pizzeria Uno and selling its current beer and wine license to Buk Kyung, a Korean restaurant at 151 Brighton Ave.
The hearings begin at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 3 in the board's eighth-floor hearing room.
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Um
By eeka
Tue, 10/26/2010 - 9:33pm
Allston could rival West Roxbury for the number of pizza places per capita.
Doesn't the North End have them both beat by a landslide?
Pizza
By Me
Wed, 10/27/2010 - 12:35pm
The North End difinately does NOT have as many pizza places as Allston and Brighton
Getting the ball rolling
By Stewart
Tue, 10/26/2010 - 9:36pm
If we let a Korean restaurant have a beer and wine license, our preschoolers will be huffing glue under the Larz Anderson Bridge by next Groundhog Day!
If we let this Korean restaurant get a beer and wine license, the next Korean restaurant will want a permit to show snuff films in its bathrooms, and we'll be powerless to stop them!
It's a slippery slope, people! SLIPPERY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Question
By anon
Wed, 10/27/2010 - 7:04pm
Does anyone know whether the sale of soju would be covered by a beer and wine license?
Cos I'm having a hard time imagining a Korean restaurant without soju.
Big City
By Will LaTulippe
Tue, 10/26/2010 - 10:45pm
I believe the owner is a felon and can't own a liquor license, but I could be wrong.
Marc Kadish
By nathanael
Wed, 10/27/2010 - 12:21am
Marc Kadish owns both Big City and Sunset.
What's the matter, Will?
By Unreal
Wed, 10/27/2010 - 3:43pm
Still mad that Colleen and Whitney continue to outdraw you on Wednesday and Thursday nights? Peeved that people are drawn to trivia hosts they can actually stand and don't need to be swayed with $1 bottles of expired beer to come out for the night? By the way, making an accusation that's knowingly false is called libel, Will. I'd suggest that before you libel Big City's owner -- who isn't a public figure and could just sue you for slander -- you get your facts straight.
See, this is why the
By J
Wed, 10/27/2010 - 3:39am
See, this is why the committee was right to say no the the stone pizza people. You say yes to one pizza place, and suddenly the whole town is overrun by pizza. Some of us have lived here for over 10 years and we don't want pizza or any food or drink or noise in our neighborhood. Take your pizza to somewhere it's wanted.
simple economics....
By anon
Wed, 10/27/2010 - 9:25am
the market will support whatever the demand is. If there isn't enough demand for all this pizza, then the worse ones will shutter. I happen to prefer these to vacant storefronts.
these places aren't remotely close for those without cars.
By anon
Wed, 10/27/2010 - 9:28am
People going to ecco pizza or whatever its called would never go to stone hearth pizza, and probably even regina, without a car (OMG STUDENTS!!!!!). You also neglect to mention the fact that UNO (a restaurant whose main focus was pizza) closed.
And you neglect to mention...
By Stewart
Thu, 10/28/2010 - 1:40pm
...that Uno is a national chain that's rapidly going under after years of mismanagement and has closed many of their locations, not just the Allston one. Or, for that matter, that that Uno location--which, as others have noted, was disgusting--was in fact branded "Uno Chicago Grill," an attempt to downplay the pizza and turn it into an Applebee's-style family restaurant.
Good try, though!
I remember back when....
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 10/28/2010 - 1:49pm
there was only one Uno's Pizza place (in Chicago) and its "sequel" Due's Pizza (also in Chicago). People used to debate heatedly whether the original location or the child one had the better pizza. ;~}
off hours pizza
By bostnkid
Wed, 10/27/2010 - 8:17am
i understand why he wants to sell pizza to drunken college kids looking for a place to eat and fight after the bars close but opening at 7am? do people grab slices on their way to work?
The morning slice
By Sock_Puppet
Wed, 10/27/2010 - 9:50am
I don't live around there, but I'll tell you I've been frustrated by pizza places that don't start slicing pies until 11 AM. Pizza is a great breakfast food.
Unos / Regina
By EDubsAllston
Wed, 10/27/2010 - 12:35pm
Uno's closed because it was FILTHY, the service was terrible and the food was absolutely discusting, NOT because they served Pizza. I live next door and id rather eat the box the take out came in. As a resident of AllstonRockCity, I absolutely welcome and look forward to the opening of Regina Pizzeria, and would HOPE that Stone Hearth considers taking over the empty space that UNO's housed. For a city of college students (which i am not) Pizza is great, easy, cheap and fun. If you dont like having pizza joints in allston, and the "noise" they create, then do something about it. You chose to live in one of the lesser expensive areas housing a majority of BU students, and you now have to put up with the buisness that this demographic attracts. mmmm Pizza!
Will, Are you referring
By anon
Wed, 10/27/2010 - 4:44pm
Will,
Are you referring to this old incident described in the Globe? I'm not sure a conviction occurred.
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Boston Police believe that "something is brewing here" at the Sunset Grill & Tap, as the slogan of the well known Brighton watering hole suggests.
But the something has nothing to do with the hundreds of types of beer available at the popular Brighton Avenue spot.
Police said that officers discovered a cache of stolen goods - including computers, bicycles, televisions, and stereo equipment - in the office of owner Mark Kadish at the restaurant Wednesday night, while conducting an inspection under the establishment's liquor license.
The officers had been tipped earlier in the day that Kadish had allegedly stolen items and sold them over a period of time, according to …
I didn't think Uno's was that bad.
By Pete Nice
Wed, 10/27/2010 - 9:14pm
I liked the bar there and I thought it was clean enough.
South Boston
By anon
Thu, 10/28/2010 - 9:57am
you have this under South Boston what does an Alston pizza place have to do with Southie????
Oops
By adamg
Thu, 10/28/2010 - 10:12am
Thanks for noticing that; fixed (I slipped somehow while picking categories).