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Coffeehouse in Forest Hills looks like it'll be replaced by another coffeehouse with a full meal menu
By adamg on Thu, 03/23/2023 - 1:42pm
In the Jamaica Plain Facebook group, somebody posted today a sign in the window of the on-again/off-again Simpli Bar & Bites on Washington Street advertising the impending arrival of a new place called BU Bistro, with the BU standing for, no, not what you'd think, but "Be Understood."
In job postings for a chef, assistant chef and waiters/waitresses, the place says it will be a "coffee bar" that will go beyond coffee to serve a "complete menu" of sit-down meals, both breakfast and lunch, with "sack lunches" available for takeout.
They say they're particularly interested in a chef with experience with "advance cooking techniques and non-traditional ingredients."
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And if they can't hire all the people they need ...
... it will stand for "Be Understaffed" .
Do "advance cooking techniques" mean that you cook everything the previous day?
Microwave
Nuke the food 5 minutes before you send it out.
wrong state
In a state without capped liquor licenses someone could probably make something work in that spot, but as things are if you get the license you're house poor, if you don't there's no draw.
Remember, it's not the state
Remember, it's not the state with capped licenses, just the City of Boston. Any where else in MA doesn't have this problem.
???
Every city and town in MA has a set/capped amount of liquor license just like Boston and has to ask the state for more if they need them. Even towns like Cambridge who at one point decided they could in fact just make their own licensing up until the State cracked down. At one point Baker proposed a bill granting home rule for all but Boston, but it didn't go anywhere.
It is the state. The ABCC.
It is the state. The ABCC. I honestly think , even though the city of Boston is a pain the butt about a lot of things, that if they could they would be giving out licenses to every restaurant.
Not the ABCC
The state legislature.
The ABCC works similarly to the licensing board - they have to approve new license requests and they do inspections just like the licensing-board's BPD unit - but they have nothing to do with the number of licenses in a given community. The current chairwoman moved there from her job as executive secretary for the Boston Licensing Board.
Oddly enough, in it's
Oddly enough, in it's original incarnation Simpli had a liquor license
I guess the question is
What happened to the license of the old place?
Sold on the open market for a
Sold on the open market for a half a million, baby!
That said, this location is tough for a restaurant. Yes it's walkable from Forest Hills but not the most pleasant of walks. That whole stretch is industrial for a bit before you get to housing, so there's not much "neighborhood" immediate base, and a lot of people hop on a bus to get home from Forest Hills, so they're not getting much walk-by traffic either. Maybe with some of the new developments going up it'll feel less barren.
I don't disagree that we need to remove the cap, but
isn't a coffee shop the exact kind of place that shouldn't need a liquor license?
What's going in the
What's going in the commercial space at Velo that's been vacant since it was built several years ago? Check Cashing place that shut down a few years ago? Dental Office that's been eerily dark for several years with blinds and signs in the windows? The Dogwood?