Restaurants

A local Wareham paper reports on the 8 new full alcoholic beverage licenses to be made available in Wareham, once approved by Governor Deval Patrick. The State Senate and House of Representatives have passed a bill that will make the eight additional liquor licenses available for year-round use; the prior licenses were seasonal, from April […]

A group representing restaurants across the country is criticizing a federal bill that would require all cars to contain alcohol detection devices. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who is sponsoring the bill, wants to divert $60 million in existing road safety funds over a five-year period to develop affordable alcohol detection devices that would help to […]

Good piece in the Washington Post on whether the Food and Drug Administration is going to insist upon calorie listing and reporting for alcoholic beverages. As the Post article details, the federal Tax and Trade Bureau has been sitting for nearly three years on a proposal to require beer brands to disclose basic nutritional information, […]

As reported here a few weeks ago, the Massachusetts Legislature has now officially passed a new liquor law allowing restaurants to serve alcohol on Sundays starting at 10:00 a.m. instead of at noon. However, most restaurants cannot legally serve drinks before noon this Sunday. Local licensing boards will have to authorize restaurants before they can […]

The Dedham Board of Selectmen has approved an all-alcoholic beverage restaurant license for Wicked Fire Kissed Pizza, slated to open in mid- to late September at Legacy Place in Dedham. Presuming the license is approved by the state’s Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission, there will soon be nearly ten establishments serving alcohol at Legacy Place. Whole […]

All establishments serving alcohol must be aware of a newly-enacted law mandating that all liquor licensees provide proof of Liquor Liability coverage with their local licensing authority when applying for or renewing a liquor license. The minimum coverage limit is $250,000 per person and $500,000 per occurrence, and takes effect on August 28, 2010. The […]

Interesting piece in today’s Boston Globe about websites such as yelp.com where regular ol’ consumers are acting as food critics and posting restaurant reviews. I’m all for it – the more information from customers from which other customers can benefit, the better. However, the article discusses the possibility that these websites are pressuring the restaurants […]

And soon they may drink on Sundays before noon. (Article here). Kudos to Dave Andelman, the CEO of the hit TV show The Phantom Gourmet, for proposing a bi-partisan legislative bill that has now been introduced by four local senators, two Democrats and two Republicans. Currently, state law allows restaurants to serve alcohol beginning at […]