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Waltham restaurants need help. The people who love them are now being asked to act to save this crucial industry.
It has been a year since the country began lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus, a necessary action that dealt a devastating blow to local restaurants.
Since then, 20% of restaurants in the state have closed permanently due to the pandemic as of September last year, according to reporting by the Boston Globe.
“Restaurants cannot survive this indefinitely,” said Bob Perry, executive director of the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation and board member of the Breezers Ball organization.
The first time I had a Dartmouth Highball was during a stage at Island Creek Oyster Bar back in 2011. It was one of the first drinks I was instructed to make, and if my memory serves me right it was on their drink menu at the time. It’s an Eastern Standard original, developed by Bob McCoy – who also happened to be overseeing my stage that night.
Created years prior for a Pimm’s Cup section on ES’s menu, Bob was inspired by the refreshing and herbaceous aspects of a classic Pimm’s Cup, but was also looking create a boozy, tea-like concoction that was lighter and more easy-drinking than the traditional Long Island one. The two ideas came together and the Dartmouth Highball was born. The cocktail was named after the Dartmouth, one of the three British East India Company ships looted by the Boston Tea Party.
First a closure, now a breakup of the team behind Eastern Standard and Island Creek Oyster Bar
After a decade of partnership, the restaurant group is splitting up.
By Janelle Nanos Globe Staff,Updated February 25, 2021, 4:51 p.m.
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Diners at Row 34 in Boston on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. The restaurant group s owners have decided to end their partnership.Cody O Loughlin/NYT
The announcement last week that a trio of restaurants and bars in the Hotel Commonwealth â Eastern Standard, Island Creek Oyster Bar, and the Hawthorne â would not reopen as a result of a longstanding dispute with their landlord, UrbanMeritage, was met with heartbreak among loyal patrons. Now, the owners of the restaurant group who operated the locations, which first formed to open Island Creek Oyster Bar in 2010, have decided to part ways.
UpdatedThu, Feb 25, 2021 at 7:25 pm ET
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Island Creek received Board of Selectmen approval to switch to another, cheaper brand Tuesday. (Shutterstock)
BURLINGTON, MA Burlington s Island Creek Oyster Bar will become a Row 34 location, a more affordable, family-friendly brand from the same restaurant group.
The two brands are going to separate, they said Thursday.
Burlington s Island Creek is the only Island Creek location after the Boston restaurant closed last month. Row 34 has locations in Boston and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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The restaurant is located at 300 District Ave.
The name-change, and a change of manager, secured the Board of Selectmen s approval at their Tuesday meeting, as first reported by the Burlington Union. Laura Staley, the wine director for the restaurant group, will manage the re-named restaurant.
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