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The Boston area has been in the midst of a bit of a bakery renaissance in recent years. The growth of small upscale cafe chains like Flour and Tatte is testament to Hub dwellers’ love of sweets, and we don’t seem to have hit the “peak pastry” threshold yet.
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The long-awaited new ambitious South Boston restaurant complex, is now in the home stretch to be open and will be doing so just as your Labor Day hangovers are nearing their end.
For a while it appeared that the residential area was about to be infected with yet another Starbucks franchise ... until the landlords decided to give first-time brewpub owners Bert Holdredge and Jeff Rowe a shot at their dream.
The long-awaited new ambitious South Boston restaurant complex, is now in the home stretch to be open and will be doing so just as your Labor Day hangovers are nearing their end.
“Allston is a great neighborhood,” he says. “That’s why we wanted to push the cafe concept. This will be somewhere [locals] will want to hang out in.”
