By adamg on Mon., 2/1/2016 - 5:35 pm 
PS Gourmet Coffee at Washington and Poplar streets and the Green T Coffee Shop at Walter and South streets seem to be in a race to see which one opens first, ending the coffee-shop drought the neighborhood has endured since Select Cafe closed in 2013.
PS, out of South Boston, has its signs in place, but Green T, out of Brigham Circle, has nicer doors ready to go:
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And both are replacing former
By SteveE
Mon, 02/01/2016 - 5:40pm
And both are replacing former Greek stores :(
But at least now there's ...
By adamg
Mon, 02/01/2016 - 6:43pm
Effie's Kitchen.
You can't replace something that wasn't there
By gradontripp
Mon, 02/01/2016 - 6:55pm
Christos' closed years ago, so Green T is opening in a formerly empty building. Formerly empty buildings are better than currently empty ones.
Even better...
By ckollett
Tue, 02/02/2016 - 9:52am
Formerly empty buildings with renovated exteriors are much, much better than empty ones with roll-down grates.
All things to all people
By Angry Dan
Mon, 02/01/2016 - 5:56pm
I'll be impressed if PS can be both "gourmet" and "home of the bucket".
As my wife tells me,
By Anin
Mon, 02/01/2016 - 6:02pm
As my wife tells me, teenagers need to have a place to hang out too.
Do you frequent them?
By anon
Mon, 02/01/2016 - 9:07pm
Line is out the door in Adams Corner and people seem to be ordering gourmet and buckets. If not gourmet buckets.
Buckets are merely 32 oz iced coffees which are actually perfect.
Ah
By Waquiot
Mon, 02/01/2016 - 11:01pm
I was wondering what "the bucket" was.
Of course, since I am not a coffee drinker, it was an academic pursuit.
Good coffee places are nice.
By anon
Tue, 02/02/2016 - 2:59am
Good coffee places are nice.
Personally, I think P.S. Gourmet is disgusting sugary garbage.
By TommyJeff
Tue, 02/02/2016 - 1:24am
But they do know their customers.
https://youtu.be/_9v238-PkL8
Yeah dude, I'm from
By Wtf021
Tue, 02/02/2016 - 7:23am
Yeah dude, I'm from Southieeeee!!!!!!!
That can't be real
By Roslindaler
Tue, 02/02/2016 - 8:27am
It is impossible that the video in that link is real! Was than an audition film for Ben Afleck's next Boston gangster movie, or is this coffee shop owned by the same people who use to run Light and Leisure the Purple Building?! Watching that made my day. I actually might go to this coffee shop now (with a cup of actual coffee that I bring from home).
I'm SO EXCITED for both these
By anon
Tue, 02/02/2016 - 7:31am
I'm SO EXCITED for both these places!! And the substation restaurant, and the new loungey-bar place sloooowly coming together on South (any knowledge on either of those?? Seems like they've both been in the works forever). It's going to really bump up foot traffic, which is only positive for the square.
Gourmet Coffee
By Roslindaler
Tue, 02/02/2016 - 8:17am
Calling something "gormet" is just a fancy way of saying it is terrible, low quality garbage that can be purchased in bulk by people who seek quantity over quality. This development is loathsome. Thankfully, they are outfitting the space to house a cafe so that when they go under it can easily be transformed into a decent operation without significant additional capital outlay. Until then, I will keep my coffee drinking, and sarcastic snobbery, at home.
Something for every taste
By Sock_Puppet
Tue, 02/02/2016 - 10:14am
If a starbucks grande white chocolate mocha still tastes too much like coffee to you, head on down.
I scrolled down to see if I needed to comment
By anon
Tue, 02/02/2016 - 10:21am
And when I saw your post I realized I don't need to. But you're not a snob just because you don't want terrible, low quality garbage that can be purchased in bulk by people who seek quantity over quality. You're just a normal person.
Excited for both of these to open
By omaja
Tue, 02/02/2016 - 8:34am
But, honestly, could PS's signage be any uglier?
Agreed
By Gary C
Tue, 02/02/2016 - 8:50am
It kind of shouts, "Falafel place!" but hopefully the coffee will make up for it.
Falafel
By Rob Not Verified
Tue, 02/02/2016 - 9:37am
Don't get my hopes up now.
Yay! Green T!
By Zoey Jane
Tue, 02/02/2016 - 10:26am
I'm so excited Green T is coming! Reminds me of my college days. It has a cool factor. I think I'm going to be dragging all my friends there.
I'm not so excited about P.S. Gourmet. I used to live in South Boston and did go a few times. It's basically sugar + different flavors + townies.
What to expect with PS Gourmet
By adamg
Tue, 02/02/2016 - 10:32am
Dripping blood letters
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 02/02/2016 - 11:20am
Almost like your bucket might make you stabby?
Or that the coffee is so strong that it makes you bleed as you scrawl one last "P.S." in your own blood as you slide down the wall?
(/snark)
Off to the races
By jongo
Tue, 03/15/2016 - 11:29pm
These two places are not exactly racing to finish construction, are they?
Nor the place across from Delfinos, nor the Substation. Anyone know when the Peregrine Company intends to begin work on the substation stabilization/improvements? I wouldn't be surprised if, per the open ended contract the BRA signed with them, that they delay for ten years and then announce that they do not have the funds, and the substation deteriorates for another 30 years They should have been required to provide some up front money for this or else fix it up first before being allowed to build out those 43 apartments.
Whoa
By adamg
Wed, 03/16/2016 - 5:44am
Or maybe, the substation needed some major work on its electrical or gas connection and the utility couldn't get to the work as promised last summer and then winter came and they don't do that sort of work in cold weather, so not the developer's fault at all.
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