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Jacob Wirth could re-open under new ownership
By adamg on Wed, 05/29/2019 - 12:12pm
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the current owners of the iconic Stuart Street restaurant have filed a request to sell their license to a new ownership group that lists the same address for their proposed restaurant. Jacob Wirth has been shut since sustaining water damage from firefighters putting out a blaze on a floor above it last June.
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Fair Enough...
JW closed for water damage. They served watery beer. As Captain Cat said in Thomas' Under Milk Wood, "Ocky Milkman on his round. I will say this, his milk’s as fresh as the dew. Half dew it is."
Better lock your doors at
Better lock your doors at night, massmarrier. Lines that zippy, Howie Carr will steal them for column filler.
Hooray!
Hooray!
I hope they preserve the character of the place.
With the level of alcohol
With the level of alcohol saturation that some of the characters there had in the old days, there were brains in jars of formaldehyde at Harvard Med that aren't as well-preserved.
It’d be cool...
...if the new owners chose to turn it into a German restaurant.
Exactly
Just once I'd like to go to a German restaurant in the US that serves Maultasche, Spätzle, and Eichbaum beer (in fairness, the latter probably isn't common here) and knows that pretzels typically aren't served with mustard (butter or cheese yes, mustard no)
pork knuckle
I'd like a place that serves a good pork knuckle once in a while, or tafelspitz. The only German restaurant in the US I've eaten at that had pork knuckle was in Hot Springs, AK.
How were pretzels served in
How were pretzels served in Germany 150 years ago? That could be the tradition Jacob Wirth was following, from when they were founded.
I met someone from Italy on the Fung Wah bus who didn't understand Pizzeria Regina, since it was nothing like what she knew. I'm sure in 1926 restaurants in Italy were totally different than today as well.