58 Main Street Shaping Up To Be Dessert Haven

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 …

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Rants and Raves

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What to love and hate about living in East Greenwich this week.

RANT: With so much to be grateful for this season – a warm home and food on the table (knowing many have lost it all), the election finally over (well, abated for at least one year) the kids’ cats are on sabbatical from peeing on our beds (gross), narwhals (because if they exist, maybe unicorns do too), the return of the East Greenwich Hill and Harbor Turkey Trot, video games (because you can’t, scratch that, shouldn’t shoot stupid people in real life), the return of Jiggers, the opening of Silver Spoon Bakery (though my thighs aren’t quite as appreciative of that one), the survival of The Village Café, the reopening of the Odeum, our troops and anyone in any job that puts their life on the line, my dishwasher (or, more to the point, …

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