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Eater
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Eater
7 New Boston Restaurant and Bars You've Gotta Try
This monthly column highlights notable restaurant openings in and around Boston. Catch up on more news about Boston restaurant openings right here. Know of a new or soon-to-open restaurant that should be on Eater Boston's radar? Get in touch here . Brookline: Cocktails and crepes? Say less. Bar Lunette, a cozy French bar from Nick Mallia, who is also the operating partner of the adjacent Paris Creperie, is now open in Coolidge Corner. 278A Harvard Street East Boston: An Eastie outpost of North End cafe Caffe Dello Sport debuted in Orient Heights this month. 973 Saratoga Street East Boston: Restaurateur Raffaele Scalzi — who is also a co-owner in the newly renovated Italian American restaurant Pazza on Porter, also in the neighborhood — has expanded with the launch of Koro Ramen & Sushi, a takeout ramen and sushi spot in Jeffries Point. 329 Sumner Street Downtown Boston: Koko Coffee, a local chain of coffee shops, has expanded with a larger, sit-down location at North Station. 226 Causeway Street Somerville: New Vietnamese coffee shop Poundhouse is serving up specialty coffee drinks like cà phê trứng (creamy egg coffee) and cà phê muối (salted coffee), plus bánh mì, spring rolls, bagels, and toasts, in Ball Square. 703 Broadway Cambridge: There has been a bunch of new wine bars opening around Boston lately, and we're here for it. The latest to join the group? Zusammen, from the ace team behind neighborhood grocer Momma's, is now open in North Cambridge. The bar is only open on Fridays and Saturdays for now, and it is walk-in service only. 2322 Massachusetts Avenue Watertown: Arsenal Yards welcomes the Mighty Squirrel Taproom and Tapas, a summer-ready, 7,000-square-foot space from the crowd-favorite brewery. It's situated along the Charles River and boasts a gigantic outdoor patio. 102 Arsenal Yards Boulevard Sign up for our newsletter.
Axios
07-03-2025
- Politics
- Axios
What happened when ICE agents descended on East Boston stores
East Boston store owners found themselves at odds with federal immigration agents last month, resisting attempts to search and audit their businesses. Why it matters: These business owners told GBH News, which broke the story, that the encounters showed the power of knowing one's rights when interacting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Immigration advocates and local elected officials have held "Know Your Rights" seminars and passed around suggestion cards since President Trump's inauguration, drawing the ire of border czar Tom Homan. Catch up quick: ICE visited several Eastie businesses on Feb. 13, GBH News reported. The store owners and employees said the visits came after reports of people working without work permits. ICE told GBH News they didn't investigate further after speaking with managers and reviewing documents. Yes, but: Business owners and employees said they never handed over any documents. They also said the ICE agents showed no judicial warrants or documentation authorizing such a review. What they're saying: "I remembered my rights and told the man, 'I'm not obligated to respond to your questions,'" said Yhoana Zapata, who works at El Cambio Latino. The big picture: Businesses in majority-immigrant neighborhoods are becoming targets of federal immigration agents seeking to detain locals without work permits, despite the Trump administration's claims that they would go after the hardest criminals. Business owners in these neighborhoods have also suffered a drop in foot traffic in the past six weeks, WBUR reported. The other side: Homan blasted U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Fox News last month for holding a "Know Your Rights" webinar. "She can call it education all she wants, but we all know it's about evading law enforcement," he said.
