Jackie Cain/Eater Boston
Ownership of one of Boston’s most iconic restaurant brands is changing hands. Legal Sea Foods is being sold to the Medford-based PPX Hospitality Group. PPX is a subsidiary of the Irish investment firm Danu Partners, which also owns the Smith & Wollensky steakhouse chain, as well as three Strega locations (Strega Waterfront, Strip by Strega, and Strega Prime).
PPX will become the owners of the rights to the Legal Sea Foods name for restaurants, but Legal chief executive Roger Berkowitz, whose family opened the chain in 1968, will retain the rights to the name for his online business, which sells seafood (fresh and prepared), chowder, tee shirts, cooking equipment, gift cards, and more.
By Linda Laban
Correspondent
The year 2019 was a big one in Daniel Roughan’s 20-year career in the restaurant business. He was project manager for two of Boston’s biggest nightlife venues: the glamorous North End meets North Shore Italian eatery Fratelli in the Encore Boston Harbor Casino; and the Big Night Entertainment triple-venue complex in the Hub on Causeway that includes (celebrity chef Guy Fieri’s) Guy’s Tequila Cochina, studio B, and the Big Night Live music venue.
It was also the year the Shrewsbury native decided to go it alone and open his own restaurant.
Last December, he signed the lease for his very own restaurant, to be called Source, a farm-to-table pizza restaurant housed in the charming historic building in Harvard Square that was Cambridge’s first firehouse, Cambridge One.
Shrewsbury native moves from stage to kitchen, opening Source in Cambridge
By Linda Laban
The year 2019 was a big one in Daniel Roughan’s 20-year career in the restaurant business. He was project manager for two of Boston’s biggest nightlife venues: the glamorous North End meets North Shore Italian eatery Fratelli in the Encore Boston Harbor Casino; and the Big Night Entertainment triple-venue complex in the Hub on Causeway that includes (celebrity chef Guy Fieri’s) Guy’s Tequila Cochina, studio B, and the Big Night Live music venue.
It was also the year the Shrewsbury native decided to go it alone and open his own restaurant.