Tuesday, March 26, 2013
PieZoni's is going to be a take-out and eat-in pizza and calzone restaurant; Raw Bob's Organic Juicery is going in next to Symposium Books on Main Street.
The weather's still cold, but looking at the new businesses opening or planning to open in town, hibernation season is definitely over. Two more businesses announced themselves at Monday night's Town Council meeting: PieZoni's and Raw Bob's. PieZoni's is a small pizza restaurant chain based in East Providence, with 15 restaurants in Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts. Owners have leased space at 1000 Division Street (East Greenwich Marketplace) next to Orange Leaf frozen yogurt shop and hope to open by July. The Town Council approved both a victualing license and a beer-and-wine liquor license for the restaurant. The move did not require increasing the liquor license cap because there are three available licenses right now (…
Saturday, March 2, 2013
What we love and loathe about living in East Greenwich this month.
RANT: The recent hoopla over whether certain businesses should receive liquor licenses has left me scratching my head. A coffee shop is ok, but a dessert store isn’t? (In case you are thinking that it makes immense sense as those who over-imbibe at the coffee shop can quickly sober up with a few shots of high octane joe, studies published in Scientific American show that combining large amounts of alcohol and caffeine simultaneously can actually be lethal. So there.) OK, I don’t live with my head in a can. I get that laws can change attitudes and oftentimes, they can be the first step towards a change in mentality and our society’s values. The reality of this hit me on the noggin just last week when my kids and I were on vacation in Las …
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Town Council approves liquor license for tenant Silver Spoon Bakery, grants victualing license for ice cream shop across the hall.
In a downtown filled with places to eat dinner, 58 Main Street is posed to become Main Street's dessert capital. The Town Council approved both a liquor license for the four-month-old Silver Spoon Bakery and a victualing license for Lina Piccolina, which wants to open an ice cream shop on the first floor to pair with their consignment shop downstairs. Silver Spoon owners Kelly and Scott Santos told Council members they needed a full liquor license to be able to serve wine and liqueurs to their patrons who come in for cupcakes and macaroons. Originally, they thought they could just apply for a wine-and-beer license but liqueurs required a full license. They said they had no intention of serving beer or hard liquor, but rather were looking …
A concerned parent
9:55 am on Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Now if only there were decent parking for either of these places. The lot at Dave's plaza is a nightmare and so is parking on Main Street. I bet both businesses are closed by the end of the summer because of it. more ›