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Downtown could get first Filipino restaurant
By adamg on Wed, 05/03/2023 - 11:03am
Update: Board requested Millare meet with the neighborhood group, but said it didn't want to hold her up when the mayor's office told her she didn't have to, so approved her license.
The Boston Licensing Board could decide tomorrow whether to grant a food-serving license to Janeth Millare to open Pinoy Kabayan Filipino Asian Cuisine at 71-73 Broad St. downtown.
At a hearing this morning, Millare said she expects to serve mostly takeout Filipino dishes between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m., in a space that does have 16 seats.
In response to questions from board Chairwoman Kathleen Joyce, Millare said she is not going to be allowing third-party delivery pickups for at least three months, as she works to get credit-card processing worked out. Joyce asked her to submit a traffic plan once that happens, though, because downtown's a "very congested area" and BTD is trying to get a handle on the double parking and other issues related to third-party delivery services there.
Also, the office of City Councilor Ed Flynn asked the board to defer any vote on Millare's license until after she meets with the Wharf District Council residents' group. Millare did not do so initially on the advice of the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services, which said the location is not covered by any neighborhood association, but a Flynn aide said it is, in fact, part of the council area. An ONS liaison said Millare did deliver flyers about her proposal to nearby residents and that nobody objected.
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obnoxious that a restaurant
obnoxious that a restaurant has to get approval from the local neighborhood group (or even the councilor’s office). The licensing process should just be a bunch of objective boxes you check. Do you pass health and safety standards? Have you previously violated any conditions of licensing as an employer? Are you doing delivery? If yes, do you have a plan for handling delivery? You tick the boxes, you get a license.
They don't have to get approval
They just have to show that they met with the group (and as noted above, the issue here is that the applicant didn't meet with the neighborhood group in question because the mayor's office said she didn't have to). The board has approved licenses for places that were opposed by the local civic association.
In this case, there's no neighborhood
because it's in the Financial District.
Yes please
1 lunch order of sisig with a lumpia on the side, please.
never had Filipino food
but generally find anything Asian is interesting, if not outstanding. The Broad Street/Batterymarch area needs more activity and more food choices.
It's a good mix
Take the indigenous food that is somewhat akin to Malaysian, then add in Chinese influence from old trading routes with the mainland there, mix in variations on the Spanish dishes from that colonial era and you get most of the traditional fare.
Of course there is more modern stuff that has an American influence too. If you're old enough to remember going to McDonald's when they used to deep fry the apple and cherry pies in beef tallow then I recommend that if you have the opportunity to get some fast food at a Jollibee that you get the peach mango pie for a trip down a parallel road of memory lane.
Crispy Pata!
With a side of Lipitor dipping sauce please!!
And some dinuguan and Kare-Kare...
...with a side of shrimp bagoong!
We demand lumpia!
and halo halo!
Joyce asked her to submit a
So now the city expects people who want to open a restaurant to be traffic engineers? Maybe the CITY should look at this problem holistically and deal with high issue areas, using the engineers that they presumably pay already! I mean that's THEIR JOB, right, making overall plans to deal with a confluence of factors??
Expecting each individual restaurant to handle this issue is ridiculous. But this is coming from the same city that thinks expecting every property owner shoveling their own walk will somehow magically result in a functional pedestrian network, so I guess I'm not surprised.
bikes, motor bikes, skateboards, and roller blades
would realistically be faster than cars in that area, with delivery limited to Downtown, North End, Waterfront, Seaport.
I hope this goes through quickly
I am in need of approximately 100 lbs of pancit.
"We're a world class city"
I love Boston, I really do. I defend it when people say the food here isn't as good as elsewhere, because there IS a good food scene here.
But for crying out loud, why do we put so many stupid obstacles in the way of good things happening? Failure to just grant this permit by right is a crying shame and stupid on a ton of levels.
Story updated
The board approved her license.