Todd English's former landlord seeks permission next week to sell the liquor license of his failed Olives in City Square to Roger Berkowitz, who wants to open a Legal C Bar in the space.
The Boston Licensing Board considers the request at a hearing on Wednesday.
Olives' landlord shut the place in June in a dispute with English over $780,000 or so in back rent.
Some places celebrate Christmas with piles of lobster pots; James Hook & Co., though, has a tree decked out in lobster claws, as Adam Castiglioni shows us.
The owners of jm Curley hoped to replace the shuttered 28 Degrees on Appleton Street with a new restaurant focusing on New England fare, including seafood.
The Boston Licensing Board votes tomorrow whether to let Merrill & Co. spend $300,000 to buy 28 Degrees's all-alcohol license.
At a hearing today, Merrill & Co. managers said they hope to open this spring after renovations.
They said they hope to open for brunch on weekends, possibly with live jazz.
Anthony's Pier 4 last year. Photo by Dale Cruse. Posted under this Creative Commons license.
LiveEastie.com interviews one of the owners of Shuckin' Truck, which now serves up seafood in East Boston.
We do try to source our seafood from the family of fishing vessels in RI. However, due to the fact that we now operate 7 days a week, it's hard for them to keep up with the demand. Our secondary source is directly from the Boston Pier every morning.
Karen Maziarz wonders where she can get the freshest fresh fish in and around Jamaica Plain.
The Swellesley Report alerts us that Roche Bros. has slapped QR codes on its seafood displays that let smartphone users "see a photo of the fishing boat, the location fished, and even a description of the fishing gear used."
The Boston Fire Department reports a fire that started in a stove at the Ga Ga Seafood Restaurant, 25 Tyler St., went to two alarms after it was reported at 9:46 a.m.
The fire displaced 24 residents living in seven apartments above the restaurant and did an estimated $300,000 in damage - to the restaurant and six nearby businesses - the department says.
Cherie King wonders where she can find good clam strips at less than tourist prices.
Quincy Shore Drive?
City officials who were quick today to support a waterfront restaurant's plans for a patio open until midnight were equally quick to reject a Boylston Street restaurant's plans for a patio open until midnight - even though another restaurant just a few doors down already has a patio open until midnight.
The mayor's office and city councilors Steve Murphy, Felix Arroyo and Ayanna Pressley all endorsed a proposal by the Boston Harbor Hotel to build a patio for up to 64 patrons on its southern side - its second - with weather-appropriate hours of 11 a.m. to midnight.
The Passionate Foodie displays some repertorial herring-do as he roams the floor at the annual International Boston Seafood Show.
An oyster shucker charged with fondling a waitress at Durgin-Park skipped court, then got a new job shucking oysters at the Union Oyster House, where he was nabbed as part of a drug investigation. Meanwhile, ICE wants him as a possible illegal immigrant.
Two Boston Police detectives detailed some of Wilmer Fernandez's activities this morning at a Boston Licensing Board hearing on the circumstances surrounding his arrest at the Union Oyster House on Oct. 22.
Richard Auffrey reports that a company called iPura is once again offering a $1,000 prize to the local blogger/tweeter who best captures the raging glory that is the awesome world of seafood products and services at the annual International Boston Seafood Show in March.
The Globe reports that not only do many restaurants around here not serve you the fish they claim they do on their menus, they seem to think that's just fine.
All 23 white tuna samples tested as some other type of fish, usually escolar, which is nicknamed the "ex-lax" fish by some in the industry because of the digestion problems it can cause.
Joey's butter gets melted by a couple of women in California who posted a lobster-roll recipe that includes (you are sitting down, right?) lettuce, paprika and, almost worst, jalepeno peppers.
But what really turns Joey's face red is their suggestion that frozen lobster tails are an acceptable substitute for the real stuff:
Adam Castiglioni reports Legal Seafood will offer tours of its fish processing and testing plant on the South Boston waterfront every Thursday morning June through August for $7 (proceeds go to the Boston Harbor Assocation). No sandals or flip-flops allowed.
Adam Castiglioni reports the owners of Scup's in the Harbor in East Boston are looking for somebody to take over their operations due to a medical emergency - just as they were getting ready for their April 1 re-opening.
Richard Auffrey partook of Legal Seafood's "banned" dinner last night, explains that he came to trust Legal's Roger Berkowitz on why Legal isn't destroying the world's fishing stocks:
As the Outraged Liberal notes, one of the Globe's suggestions for beating the heat today is to go to Wulf's Seafood in Brookline and stand there watching the owner chop up fish.
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