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Boston-area restaurant closures pile up
The CEO of Banyan Bar + Refuge officially called it quits for the Asian gastropub this week, more than a year after a kitchen fire forced it to close. Catch up quick: The wait on insurance dragged on long after the June 2025 kitchen fire, while Rebecca Roth Gullo charted plans to expand her other business, Blackbird Doughnuts. "The time has come for us to focus all of our time and energy on Blackbird's growth," she wrote on Instagram . "It's an exciting next chapter, but one that comes with a great deal of emotion about what we're leaving behind." 💸 The Midway Cafe is in danger of closing. Owner Jay Balerna told the Boston Globe he's looking for a new owner after the landlord expressed plans to double the rent next year. 🍔 Wahlburgers closed its Fenway location last week but plans to open new locations in Nevada, California and Puerto Rico. ☕️ Daily Provisions opened its third location Wednesday, this one at 501 Boylston St. in the Back Bay. It'll be open 7am-9pm daily. Newton Highlands is getting a new restaurant: Sichuan Ember plans to move into the space once home to Scafidi Bros. Market & Deli, per
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The Tiny Restaurant Tucked Away In Massachusetts That Will Make You A Loyal Customer Forever
If loyalty could be cooked into a dish, Rino’s Place in East Boston would have figured out the recipe a long time ago. This is a restaurant that turns first-time visitors into regulars with a reliability that should probably be studied by someone with a clipboard and a research grant.
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This Old-School Massachusetts Restaurant Makes Some Seriously Good Thin-Crust Pizza
The brick oven at this pizza spot showed up in pieces in 1883, built for a bakery. It has been cranking out thin-crust pies for nearly a century since then. If you ask me, nobody ever outgrows the trip-day grin. It just waits for the right excuse, and a famous old oven is a pretty good one.
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A Humble Boston Seafood Shack Has Made A Name For Itself Across America
Crab traps hanging from the ceiling with little lights wrapped around them? That’s already my kind of seafood place. Add picnic tables covered in lobster shells, and I can practically hear people cracking claws and laughing over dinner. Forget fancy decorations. This sounds like a lot more fun. And...
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Two of Boston’s staple bars are teaming up for a New Hampshire expansion
Two signature bars in Boston's Fenway neighborhood are expanding to another New England city — one for the first time. Loretta's Last Call and Game On! will open at The Mall at Rockingham Park in Salem, New Hampshire in early 2027. The move marks the first expansion outside Boston...
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Midway Cafe in Jamaica Plain Seeks New Owner as Landlord Plans to Double Rent for the Property
The Midway Cafe in Jamaica Plain could close next year because the building owner is demanding a rent increase, unless a new owner buys the venue. “I'm hoping to have somebody else take it over,” said Jay Balerna, who started managing the live music venue with his brother, David, in 1987, according to The Boston Globe. Balerna has owned the property since buying his brother out in 2011.
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Alfredo’s Is Moving to a New Location in Southie After 23 Years
After 23 years at 243 Dorchester Street, Alfredo’s is moving to a new home in Southie. But don’t worry, it’s not going far. The neighborhood favorite is relocating to 320 Dorchester Street, at the corner of Old Colony Avenue. The new, modern space will feature a larger dining room, giving customers a place to sit down and enjoy Alfredo’s popular steak tips, chicken broccoli Alfredo, Italian-style pizzas, and more.
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Mike’s Pastry In Boston’s North End Still Draws Lines Out The Door For Cannoli
Some lines in Boston are for ballgames, and some are for concerts. One line in the North End forms every single day for something much smaller: a cannoli. People wrap around the corner, cash in hand, waiting their turn at a counter that has been famous for generations. The shop has been around since 1946, and it still acts like the busiest bakery in town because, most days, it is.