The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday whether to let Nicholas Frattaroli - of the North End Frattarolis - buy the liquor license from the owners of the shuttered Grand Canal and re-open it as a Mexican restaurant called Bodega Canal.
The restaurant, at 69 Canal St., would serve food until 1 a.m. and drinks until 2, Frattaroli's lawyer, William Ferrullo, told the board at a hearing today. He added the restaurant, which would back up against Frattaroli's Ward 8 restaurant on North Washington Street., would also serve lunch.
Maria Lanza, liaison from the mayor's office, offered strong support, saying a full-service, late-ish-night restaurant would fit in well in a neighborhood with "changing dynamics" such as the blocks around North Station. She also praised the Frattaroli family in general and Nicholas Frattaroli in particular, as excellent business owners.
An aide to City Councilor Sal LaMattina (North End, East Boston, Charlestown) also supported the request. Nobody spoke against.
In its later years, Grand Canal had problems with bouncers beating patrons.
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bodega
By Steeve
Wed, 04/26/2017 - 11:40am
I wonder how many people will accidentally wander in thinking it's an actual bodega. It's on ground level, so I'm not sure it hits on any definition of a bodega, but I digress.
I guess we'll wait and see how they handle another cuisine. If what's being served up at Ward 8 is any indication, I'd imagine they'd go more American-style tex-mex stuff, but I'd imagine that comes down to the chef they hire.
Boston bodegas
By adamg
Wed, 04/26/2017 - 11:49am
Then there's the bodega in the South End that's really a sneaker store.
actually
By Steeve
Wed, 04/26/2017 - 1:45pm
Actually, shoes sounds like more of a surprise when wandering into a bodega.
Ground level?
By lbb
Wed, 04/26/2017 - 2:55pm
A bodega is a convenience store/mini mart, why would it be on anything but the ground level?
That Neighborhood
By ChrisInEastie
Wed, 04/26/2017 - 1:01pm
Could use something like that. The place is a ghost town if there aren't any events at the Garden, and a lot of the new development coming is going to be sort of overpolished.
My bodega sells Sazon, used
By anon
Wed, 04/26/2017 - 1:27pm
My bodega sells Sazon, used cell phones, and used handbags.
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