Cape Verdean restaurant in Fields Corner wants to add live music

By adamg on Tue, 11/28/2017 - 10:22am

The Board of Appeal today gave provisional approval to plans by the owners of Churrascaria Vulcao, 203 Adams St. in Dorchester, to bring in a violinist and one or two guitarists to serenade patrons.

The board said it is withholding final approval until the owners, Andre and Isabel Gomes, submit a formal set of plans showing the layout of the 46-seat restaurant, which they opened a year ago.

The music proposal also needs the approval of the Mayor's Office of Consumer Affairs and Licensing. The Boston Licensing Board will also have to approve the Gomes' request to extend their closing time from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m.

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Really?

By Adeas on Tue, 11/28/2017 - 12:41pm.

Does a restaurant really need licensing board approval and approval from all these other groups to do live music?

I mean, if you want to turn your restaurant into a metal concert hall - I get that, but this seems a bit... over the top.

Well, yes.

By whyaduck on Tue, 11/28/2017 - 1:05pm.

Actually, you answered your own question by your second sentence. The laws are there to protect you and I and our hearing by let us say hypothetical restaurant owners who want to turn their restaurant into a heavy metal concert hall. As the Board has no idea, at this point, what the restaurant wants to do, it has to show that they are not going to pump up the volume, among a whole list other things.

Live music? What's next?

By Steeve on Tue, 11/28/2017 - 12:54pm.

Live music? What's next? DANCING?!? People necking?

As long as it's not...

By Gary C on Tue, 11/28/2017 - 2:59pm.

a DJ!