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East Boston diners could one day sup aboard a tall ship
By adamg on Thu, 06/18/2020 - 10:03am
The Charlestown Patriot-Bridge reports the owner of the Reel House on the East Boston waterfront bought a Tall Ship and wants to berth it at East Boston's Portside project to run as a restaurant.
Charlie Larner originally bought the ship to create an onboard restaurant at the Charlestown Navy Yard, but residents fired repeated vocal shots across his bow and he withdrew that plan.
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Not the first time!
Back in the 1960s there was a restaurant aboard a replica tall ship in East Boston. I remember eating there with my parents. It was probably Labor Day weekend of 1968, when they dropped me off at college. A bit of Google research shows that it was a 3/4-scale model of Donald McKay's clipper the Flying Cloud, docked at the end of Lewis Street, right off of Maverick Square. It burned in 1971.
http://www.celebrateboston.com/disasters/1800-club-fire.htm
https://www.facebook.com/EastBostonMuseum/posts/photograph-from-the-arch...
Maybe not so much
all East Boston residents, as much as Portside and Clippership residents. And some Southie residents who want to come "be adventurous" all the way out in Eastie.
If it's anything like the overpriced and out of place Reelhouse, even most of us yuppie transplants who don't live in waterfront (and sometimes underwater) apartments and condos won't want anything to do with it.
Reelhouse
Reelhouse is the worst. The crowds are generally awful with more of a Southie bro-vibe than anything else, the drinks are watered down, and the food is bad even beyond the high prices.
I'm sure this place will just be more of the same.
Portside and Clippership kids
live in their own bubble version of East Boston anyway.
The Reel House is too trendy
The Reel House is too trendy and too expensive for the average East Boston folks , I heard the Reel House food is not that great, so they should sail that ship back to Charlestown...
There is a strip of road in
There is a strip of road in Chelsea called Marginal Street that on the waterside we are forbidden from putting non maritime indistrial use buildings in place... but the community does not want large polluters anymore either. So there is the salt pile, down the Cheslea Creek there are some oil tanks and then a hodge podge of empty tracts of land and temporary use things like Port Park, the Urban Wild in East Boston, office spaces somehow connected to Marine Indistrtial Use, the Chelsea RiverWalk, a parking lot for a rental car company.
There is also a large docking area that is almost never used next to boat slips that literally have just a single boat docked. This large cement docking area, lets call it 212 Marginal Street Chelsea, has played home to Kayak and community events in the past and I think it would be an ideal space for something like this. He should look into it! There is parking on site, they could use the cement area for outdoor dining or other activities in the summer, a park to the right and offices to the left round out the area. There is a map below.
Since it is a boat and everything else would in theory be temporary in nature I think they would have a good shot at making it happen. I know the previous city administration had floated the idea of a seasonal restaurant on the dock... but this would be a step more so in that direction.
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3862464,-71.0313226,3a,75y,208.57h,88.62t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sQmefkMAI6CW6H3deIUnhuA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DQmefkMAI6CW6H3deIUnhuA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D179.7077%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192
Looking forward to this, hard
Looking forward to this, hard to find decent hardtack in this city.