The city of Boston yesterday sued serial restaurant owner Barbara Lynch and her various corporate entities for unpaid taxes on equipment and furnishings in her Boston restaurants and bars that date to 2011. Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports Barbara Lynch is closing the last two restaurants she hadn't already closed: No. 9 Park on Beacon Hill and B&G Oysters in the South End. Lynch ran into some employee issues last year, which included a lawsuit.
The Boston Business Journal reports that Barbara Lynch has abruptly closed her Menton, Sportello and Drink outlets in Fort Point, blaming her landlord. Her other restaurants, all outside Fort Point, remain open.
Two former employees of the Barbara Lynch Collective today sued Lynch for back wages for the tips they claim she kept after they were called back to work when the state let restaurants partially re-open three months after the start of the pandemic. Read more.
The Times interviews megachef Barbara Lynch on her gritty upbringing in gritty South Boston:
I have always been a risk-taker, even as a kid. I stole an MBTA bus when I was 13 just for laughs and never got caught.
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