These $26 Hoodoo Barbecue T-shirts benefit a great cause. (The nostalgia is free.)
The dirt-cheap smoked-meat joint that James Ryan ran upstairs at the Rat in the early â80s was quickly declared one of the countryâs best new restaurants when it opened.
By James Sullivan Globe correspondent,Updated February 16, 2021, 10:00 a.m.
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All proceeds of the shirt will go to the local nonprofit Project Restore Us, which aims to save restaurants while feeding families.Handout
Henry Santoro says he was one of the lucky few at the Rat when a new British band called the Police played the club in 1978. Santoro, the GBH radio newscaster, was a regular at Kenmore Squareâs Rathskeller through the 1980s.