By adamg - Thu, 02/29/2024 - 3:51pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that the Salt Bae will not be re-opening a salt and steak restaurant in Boston after all, following the closing of his Park Square outlet last year.

By adamg - Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:27pm

Sofia's Italian Steakhouse on VFW Parkway just before Spring Street announced tonight its closing for good on March 2. Read more.

By adamg - Thu, 08/17/2023 - 11:50am

Boston Restaurant Talk gets the salty scoop: The steak guy with the funny way of putting salt on steaks has closed up shop in Boston, where, you may recall, he opened up in Park Square at the height of the pandemic only to get shut down after barely a week for violating the city's Covid-19 restrictions.

By adamg - Tue, 10/11/2022 - 10:45am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Boston Chops on Temple Place, which closed at the onset of the pandemic, has started advertising for help

By adamg - Thu, 05/05/2022 - 1:53pm

The Boston Licensing Board today took no action on requests by the owners of Boston Chops on Washington Street in the South End to sell their liquor license to a proposed parmigiana-based restaurant in Copley Place - and to then transfer the liquor license from their closed Boston Chops on Temple Place downtown to the Washington Street restaurant - because of a lawsuit by their Temple Place landlord. Read more.

By adamg - Fri, 04/29/2022 - 3:49pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports plans are in the works to tear down Floramo's on Everett Avenue in Chelsea - where "the meat falls off the bone" - to make way for an 11-story life-sciences lab building.

By adamg - Sat, 09/26/2020 - 9:56pm

Boston licensing officials ordered the Nusr-et steak place in Park Square shut less than a week after it opened, for violations of city and state Covid-19 and fire regulations. Read more.

By adamg - Fri, 04/03/2020 - 9:16am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Fleming's Steakhouse in Park Square has closed permanently.

By adamg - Mon, 10/14/2019 - 10:24pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports the Del Frisco's Grilles in Chestnut Hill and Burlington are closing in a week.

By adamg - Fri, 05/31/2019 - 11:55am

The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved plans for a New York-based chain of steakhouses to open its first Boston restaurant at One Boston Place - that hulking modernish office building at State and Washington streets across from the Old State House and the Ames Hotel. Read more.

By adamg - Wed, 09/21/2016 - 1:24pm

Christopher Coombs and Brian Piccini hope to replicate the success of their Boston Chops steakhouse in the South End in the large space in Downtown Crossing where Mantra used to be. Read more.

By adamg - Tue, 05/03/2016 - 11:24pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports we'll be getting a Mastro's Steakhouse. In a luxury residential building on Fan Pier, natch.

By adamg - Mon, 01/04/2016 - 2:52pm

Boston Restaurant Talk gets a (steak) tip that Tuckaway Tavern and Butchery in bucolic Raymond, NH is a-fixin' to open a second outlet in the now cow-less but still giant-cactused old Hilltop property in Saugus, which closed in 2013.

The restaurant itself served up a lagniappe on its Facebook page today about the potential new space.

By adamg - Wed, 04/29/2015 - 11:23am

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let a chain of high-end seafood and steak places open in the new building atop what used to be part of the parking lot for the shuttered Anthony's Pier 4.

By adamg - Sun, 03/09/2014 - 6:16pm

Poster advertising Nick Varano's new steak place in the Park Plaza. Guess he's not too concerned about how many women patrons he'll get - or about his spelling.

The photo of the poster is by Charles Draghi, who knows something about the restaurant business himself and who has some choice comments about the poster in the comments under the photo.

UPDATE, Monday morning: The poster is gone, replaced by one showing a woman balancing on one high heel on an uncooked steak .

By adamg - Thu, 12/05/2013 - 3:25pm

Pretty much everything that wasn't stolen in the HIlltop's final days goes on sale in two online auctions on Dec. 14.

By adamg - Thu, 10/10/2013 - 9:08am

Boston Restaurant Talk rounds up sources that indicate the restaurant with the giant neon cactus and the lifesize fiberglass cows is closing forever in a c

By adamg - Mon, 01/14/2013 - 10:10am

The Herald reports Yet Another Steakhouse is planned for the South Boston waterfront.

By adamg - Fri, 08/24/2012 - 8:44pm

The Tremont Street steakhouse shuts forever tomorrow.

By adamg - Fri, 08/03/2012 - 9:36am

Michael Conlon, who owns restaurants across Boston, goes before the Boston Licensing Board next week for permission to re-open the Stockyard on Market Street in Brighton.