Joyful reunions as regulars reunite with their favorite restaurant workers
As beloved haunts reopen after hibernation, thereâs relief, hope â and even tears.
By Kara Baskin Globe Correspondent,Updated April 20, 2021, 9:46 a.m.
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Bar director Gabe Bellegard Bastos serves a drink to Sarah Clark at Atlantico in Boston.Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe
At Sweet Basil in Needham and Waltham, owner Dave Becker chats with plenty of regulars, but he doesnât usually get hospital requests. The pandemic was different. One of his longtime guests â a chipper Ernest Hemingway doppelganger who looked straight out of âGulliverâs Travels,â he says â was critically ill with COVID-19. Heâd been on a ventilator. Heâd lost 50 pounds. He wanted to get well, of course. But he also wanted to get out and have some of Beckerâs short rib tacos.