Restaurant Closings

It looks like two of Boston’s best-known restaurants will be transferring their licenses to the company that owns the property. According to a licensing board hearing page within the city’s website, Eastern Standard and Island Creek Oyster Bar within the Hotel Commonwealth in Kenmore Square are seeking to transfer their liquor licenses to UMNVAG Kenmore, LLC, with the prospective...

Boylston Street — one of the most popular and busiest in Boston — grew eerily quiet when the state first required businesses to close under the COVID-19 restrictions. Sadly, not all businesses have been able to reopen and some have closed indefinitely. “It stinks, it stinks. A lot of this stinks, but it’s part of what comes with COVID,” Gov….

Lir is the latest in a spate of popular Boston restaurants closing their doors due to the coronavirus pandemic.

This story originally appeared on Boston Restaurant Talk. A pair of restaurants and bars known in part for their beer options could be down to just one, as its newer location is on the market. According to a number of sources, including a few within the Friends of Boston’s Hidden Restaurants Facebook group page, Bukowski Tavern in the Inman...

This story originally appeared on Boston Restaurant Talk. Last fall, it was reported that a local brewing company had declared bankruptcy and was looking to reorganize. Now we have learned that the business is slated to go on the auction block. According to the “Notices of Sale” section of the United States Bankruptcy Court website, Somerville Brewing company is looking...

CLOSED: — Brit Bakery, Cambridge, MA — Cinquecento, Boston (South End), MA — Craigie Burger, Boston (Fenway), MA — Les Zygomates, Boston (Leather District), MA — Love Art Udon, Brookline (Boston University), MA — The Squealing Pig, West Roxbury, MA — White’s Bakery and Cafe, Wellesley, MA OPEN: — 4th & Cherry, Weymouth Landing, MA — The Alumni, Quincy, MA…

A longtime watering hole in the Back Bay of Boston has shuttered, and it isn’t known what might become of the space. According to a source within the restaurant industry, Whiskey’s on Boylston Street is closed, saying that it is “100% done,” which comes on the heels of several other sources and posters on social media indicating that the...

As tough as the restaurant industry has it these days, many Black-owned restaurants and bars in Boston have been hit even harder because their communities are feeling some of the worst effects of the coronavirus pandemic. “Being closed for the past three months has been a financial hardship on us,” said Jordan Poindexter, co-owner of Wally’s Café Jazz Club....

Many Black-owned bars and restaurants have been hit harder by the coronavirus pandemic, which disproportionately impacts people of color.

What can you do to help keep restaurants up and running? Lots to digest in this episode of Small Business and the COVID-19 Crisis, with Massachusetts Restaurant association president and CEO Bob Buz.

In mid-March, just before Gov. Charlie Baker announced the restaurant shutdown, Marc Hurwitz received a warning from a friend in the restaurant industry to brace himself for a big announcement that would change everything. As the founder and editor of the well-known website Boston’s Hidden Restaurants, Hurwitz is tapped in to the local food restaurant scene, and he had...

A local group of bakeries that first started out more than 25 years ago has apparently disappeared from the landscape.

A new upscale restaurant is open for business at a historic seaside location a few miles north of Boston, and a couple of people who are behind several local restaurants are behind this spot as well. Dryft, created by restaurateur Michael Aldi, has officially opened at Revere Beach, according to a press release. The restaurant features a raw bar, classic...

This week’s Restaurant Roundup includes some bad news for Gourmet Dumpling House, a new Trader Joe’s and a brewery closing.

It appears that a dispensary is interested in moving into a space in one of Boston’s hottest neighborhoods, and the space just happens to be home to a restaurant that has a celebrity chef behind it. According to a source, a meeting is taking place on September 30 to look at Keltic Green, a proposed retail cannabis shop that is...

A New York-based group of burger and shake spots appears to be expanding further into the Greater Boston area, with a new outlet being planned for a suburban mall that also became home to a location of a legendary pizza spot a few weeks ago.

The highly-anticipated Encore Boston Harbor casino and resort complex is now open in Everett and it includes a total of 15 places to get food and drink. Based on earlier articles here along with press releases for the complex, the list of places includes the following:

It looks like a food truck in Taunton that focuses on barbecue will be joined by a restaurant just a bit closer to Boston.

It looks like an artisanal “farm-to-table” grocery store in South Boston could soon be joined by an adjacent restaurant that focuses on locally-sourced food.