The Boston Licensing Board today approved one chef's plans for a new, locally sourced restaurant at 39 Charles St. on Beacon Hill and for a hummus take-out shop right next door. Read more.

Savvor, a Caribbean and soul-food restaurant and nightclub on Lincoln Street in the Leather District, and SAVR, a "spirited American bistro" on Seaport Boulevard in the Seaport, are fighting in court over the similarity of their names - or lack thereof. Read more.

The Zoning Board of Appeals today approved plans by the Broadway Restaurant Group to open a 352-seat restaurant called Cook House next to its Lincoln Tavern on West Broadway in South Boston. Read more.

Sharp-eyed users of local restaurant reservation systems such as Michael Ratty and Grahams noticed this morning that the revived Eastern Standard in the Fenway is now accepting reservations - and so the IsEasternStandardBackYet site has been re-set to "Almost."

Boston Restaurant Talk has more.

Boston Restaurant Talk reports local restaurant operator Douglas Bacon plans to turn the old Regina/Allston Depot on Cambridge Street in Allston into Hobson's Bar & Kitchen, which might offer a DJ and live music as well.

The Boston Licensing Board tomorrow considers whether to approve plans by Brassica Kitchen + Cafe, 3710 Washington St. in Jamaica Plain, to expand into the space left vacant when the Dogwood Cafe closed in January. Read more.

The Globe reports. CommonWealth considers that the restaurant meant a lot more to the neighborhood than just food.

Boston Restaurant Talk reports Garrett Harker plans to re-open his old Hotel Commonwealth dining haunt in a new building going up across the turnpike in the Fenway. Worcester Magazine reports he's looking at an opening (or is that a re-opening?) in June.

The Boston Licensing Board could decide tomorrow whether to grant Virginia Schubert permission to re-open the Birch Street Bistro in Roslindale Square as Midnight Morning, and, if so, whether it also has any full-alcohol licenses for the new restaurant. Read more.

The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans to replace the former Storyville club in the Copley Square Hotel at Exeter Street and Huntington Avenue with a restaurant aimed at what its lawyer said was "an older, more sophisticated crowd" only out to "enjoy food," not bring the house down. Read more.