Good morning. Thank you all for joining. We'll be starting in just a moment. Good morning. This is the voting hearing of the licensing board for the city of Boston. Today is Thursday, April 9th, 2026. Today's hearing is being held pursuant to open meeting laws. That is what allows us to meet virtually. Today's hearing is being recorded and
will be posted to the city of Boston's website. While the public is encouraged to attend, there will be no additional testimony accepted this morning. We'll begin with the license premise inspection hearing which occurred on Tuesday, April 7th, 2026. Items one and two stem from the same incident.
Massachusetts Sport Service, Inc. doing business as TD Garden, located at 100 Legends Way. Date of this incident, January 10th, 2026. Assault and battery patron verse patron. intoxicated in violation of Mass General Laws chapter 138 section 64 and chapter 265 section
13A and service of alcohol to an intoxicated patron in violation of Mass General Laws chapter 138 section 69. >> Danny, I think we're waiting for video of for the police to show us some video. Is that right? >> That is correct. And in the meantime,
I'm requesting the Lency to update their security and operations plan to reflect the larger drinks that they serve in the majority of the garden as well as to forward us the appendix with the map showing where those drinks are served. >> Great.
So items one and two will be deferred uh until we are able to view video and we're requesting the uh training security and operations plan to be updated and as well as the floor plan showing the availability of different sizes of alcohol throughout the venue.
Item three, Massachusetts Sports Service, Inc. doing business as TD Garden located at 100 Legends Way. Date of this incident, December 16th, 2025. Assault and battery, staff versus staff in violation of mass general laws chapter 138 section 64 and chapter 265 section 13A.
>> Um I find no violation here. >> I agree. >> I agree. >> Item four, Summers Boston Restaurants, Inc. doing business as Hennessies of Boston, located at 25 Union Street. Date of the incident, January 31st, 2026. Patron overserved in violation of mass
general laws chapter 138 section 69. Uh the testimony was that the lency staff called the ambulance and that they were only served two drinks. Um I don't see any evidence of over service. So I found no violation.
>> I the same way. >> I agree. >> Item five, Lara Inc. doing business as Anfara 2 located at 127 to 129 Maverick Street in East Boston. Date of the incident February 7th, 2026. Assault and battery patron on patron in violation of
mass general laws chapter 138 section 64 and chapter 265 section 13A. >> I find no violation here. >> I agree. >> I agree. >> Item six, ATG Inc. doing business as Clearies located at 331 to 335 Columbus
A. Date of the incident January 11th, 2026. Assault and battery patron on patron in violation of mass general laws chapter 138 section 64 and chapter 265 section 13A. >> My notes say that we'll have video that's forthcoming from Boston, please.
>> We have request video not received yet. >> Okay, we'll defer the vote on item six. Item seven, 425 Broadway LLC located at 425 West Broadway in South Boston. Date of the incident, January 11th, 2026.
Solomon battery with a dangerous weapon, a bottle, patron on patron, in violation of Mass General Law, chapter 138, section 64 and chapter 265, section 15A. >> I see no violation here. >> I agree. >> I agree.
>> Item eight, James Associates LLC doing business as the Broadway located at 734 East Broadway in South Boston. Date of the incident, February 8th, 2026. service of more than two alcohol drinks to one patron in violation of Mass General law chapter 138 section 64.
>> Um I appreciate the lences um testimony at the hearing that once they saw it they immediately addressed it. This was a busy night noting that it was Super Bowl Sunday. I do feel like they should have probably trained everyone um and been prepared for something like this.
So for those reasons I do see a violation. I agree. >> I agree. >> And my vote would be for a warning. >> Yes. >> Violation and a first warning. >> Item nine, Densino LLC. Doing business
as Borachito, the Garrett, Boston, located at 70 Pier 4 Boulevard. Date of the incident January 31st, 2026. Overcrowding 120, police count, house count 116, capacity 107, in violation of mass general law, chapter 138, section 64, and boards rule 1.03J 1.06A. 06A and
F. >> I find a violation for overcrowding. >> Yes. >> Yeah, that's clear. Yes. >> And given this is the third violation within about 13 months, I vote for a one-day suspension. >> I agree.
>> Reasonable. >> Violation, a one-day suspension. Item 10, the Circle Bar and Grill LLC doing business as the Circle located at 356 Chestnut Hill Aen Brighton. Dated the incident February 6th, 2026. Patrons
under 21 in possession of alcohol on premise in violation of mass general laws chapter 138 sections 34A, 34 C, and 6464A. So the testimony was that these licenses um scanned as good licenses by both the
Lency and the police. This I guess the question before us today is whether it was reasonable for them to rely on those scanners. Um, I'm looking at this through the lens of this is a no well-known college bar in a neighborhood that caters to college
students. Um, these are out of state licenses. I think I don't think it was reasonable I think it was unreasonable to not ask for backup given the fact that the testimony from the police was that um they looked very young and that's why they picked them out of the
crowd. So, I find a violation. >> Um, I agree. I'd add um we routinely warn uh premises that uh scanners can't be relied on 100% that that you have to use all the tools in the toolbox. I look
at these license we've uh received pictures of the licenses that were used. Um I I mean I didn't see them in person but on the picture the some of the features that Wisconsin says are part of their licenses don't look very good to
me. I could be wrong, but I think if I looked at them, I would find them suspect. So, for that reason, and and there was no testimony that they they just scanned them. There was no testimony from someone directly that they' looked at them and they they thought they looked legitimate. So, for those reasons, I can't say that they
reasonably relied on it. And never mind the fact that every time a premises accepts an out ofstate license, they're taking that risk that those are not protected under the statute. So, for all those reasons. >> Yep. I agree with everything that's been said and just from the pictures they
look young so I I I definitely would have taken a pause. >> Danny, I I don't have their docket in front of me, but I have my notes a warning. Um, do they have a recent history of this? >> I am pulling up their docket right now.
Um, we last found them in violation of under person under 21 in possession in December of 2023 and issued them a first warning. >> Okay, so this would be another warning. >> I agree. >> Violation and warning.
Item 11, Venture 66 LLC doing business as Halftime Pizza located at 115 Causeway Street. Date of the incident, March 11th, 2026. expired commitular license in violation of Mass General laws chapter 138 section 64. No inspectional services certificate posted in violation of Mass General laws
chapter 138 section 64 and an expired entertainment license. >> Um I find no violation. >> I agree. >> I agree. >> Yep. And just to add the um expired certificate of inspection has since been renewed um delivered to the lency and
posted as of yesterday. Moving on to the transactional hearing which occurred yesterday, Wednesday, April 8th, 2026. Item one, Lee Cafe LLC. Doing business as Lee Cafe located at 66 Neand Street has applied for a common vixular license. Manager Lee Wang hours
of operation 7 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. >> I would like to defer this one uh and ask them to meet with the community. >> Sounds good. >> I agree. deferred uh for completion of community process.
Item two, Golden Cons LLC, doing business as fries before guys, located at 485 Cambridge Street in Alustin has to change the closing hour from 11:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. >> I vote to approve. Um I would like to
hold on to issu hold off on issuing the license until we receive the written late night and security operations plan from the applicant. >> That sounds good. and Danny, if we need to, we can send them some examples. >> I agree. >> Thank you. Was actually in communication
with this applicant this morning. So, >> Okay. So, uh vote is to grant a license, but not to actually be issued until we have received a late night security and operations plan. >> Item three, Yuku, Inc. doing business as Yuku, located at 577A to 583 Washington
Street in Brighton, has petitioned to change the closing hour from 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. >> At the same vote to grant this license, but not issue it until we receive a late night operations and security plan. >> I agree.
>> I agree. >> Item four, Damianos Maru Inc. doing business as land of pizza located at 445 West Broadway in South Boston has petition to change the closing hour from 12:00 a.m. to 2 a.m. >> I vote to grant or to change the hours.
>> I agree. >> Um would the board like to see a late night security operations plan here? >> Yes, please. Item five together with item number 10, Cisco Brewers Distillers and Ventner Fenway Inc. doing business as Cisco
Brewers Fenway located at 1301 to 1305 Boilston Street has petition to amend the closing hour of the patio on both the common victular and the pouring permits from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. >> I vote to approve the requested amendment to the closing hour.
>> I agree. >> I agree. Item six, Shaw Supermarkets, Inc. doing business as Star Market located at 53 Huntington A has petitioned to change the manager to Frank Gillis. >> I vote to approve the manager record. >> I agree. >> I agree.
>> Item seven, JJ Donovan, Inc. doing business as Donovan's Tavern located at 27 Clinton Street has petitioned to change the manager to Sabrina Meanie. >> I vote to approve the manager of record. >> I agree. >> I agree. Item eight, Wagamama Boston 1 LLC doing
business as Wagamama located 800 Boilston Street has petitioned to change the manager to Amir Dungle. >> I vote to approve the manager record. >> I agree. >> I agree. Item nine, Diamond Rock Boston Broad
Street Tenant LLC doing business as the Dagy located at 89 Broad Street has petitioned for an approval of an additional management agreement between Diamond Rock Boston Broad Street Tenant LLC and MNM Restaurant Group LLC. >> I vote to approve the management agreement.
>> I agree. >> I agree. >> Uh the board just approved item 10 with item five. Moving to item number 11, Boston Culinary Group, Inc. doing business as the Oreium Theater located at one Hamilton Place has petition to change the classification of its license to a restricted all alcoholic beverages
license. >> I vote to approve the uh change of classification. >> I agree. >> I agree. >> Item 12, Modern Pastry, Inc. located at 261 to 263 Handover Street has petition to change the classification of its license to a restricted all alcoholic
beverages license. >> I vote to approve the tant classification. >> I agree. I agree. >> Item 13, Calamari Waterfront Corp. doing business as the Daily Catch located at 65 Atlantic AB has petition to change the classification to a restricted all alcoholic beverages license.
>> I vote to approve the change of classification. >> I agree. >> I agree. >> Item 14, Cafe Delos Sport, Inc. doing business as Cafe Delos Sport located at 308 Handover Street has petitioned to change its classification to a restricted all alcoholic beverages
license. I vote to approve the change in classification. >> I agree. >> I agree. Item >> 15 512 Molina Inc. doing business as Mumbai Spice located at 251 Massachusetts AB has petition to change its classification to a restricted all alcoholic beverages license.
>> I vote to approve this change of classification. >> I agree. >> I agree. >> Item 16. Trier Inc. doing business as the salty pig located at 130 Dartmouth Dartmouth Street has petition to change its classification to a restricted all alcoholic beverages license.
>> I vote to approve the change of classification. >> I agree. >> I agree. >> Item 17, La Abandonsia Bakery Corp. doing business as La Abandonsia Restaurant located at 59 Meridian Street in East Boston has petitioned to change its classification to a restricted all
alcoholic beverages license. >> I vote to approve the change of classification. >> I agree. >> I agree. Item 18, Square Root Rosie LLC doing business as the square root located at 2 Corinth Street in Roslandale has petitioned to change its classification to a restricted all alcoholic beverages
license. >> I vote to approve the change of classification. >> I agree. >> I agree. >> Item 19, Broken Records Beer Hall LLC doing business as Broken Records Beer Hall at 81 to 85 Guest Street in Brighton has petitioned to change its classification to a restricted all
alcoholic beverages license. I vote to approve the change of classification. >> I agree. >> I agree. >> Item 20. Elephantine LLC doing business as Elephantine Bakery located at 332 Congress Street has petitioned to change its classification to a restricted all
alcoholic beverages license. >> I vote to approve the change of classification. >> I agree. >> I agree. >> Item 21, Ford Point Partners, Inc. doing business as Seline located at 324A Street has petition to change its classification to a restricted all alcoholic beverages license.
>> I vote to approve the change of classification. >> I agree. >> I agree. >> Item 22. Gango Tree Corporation doing business as East Broadway Market located at 869 East Broadway in South Boston has petitioned to change the category of its
license to an all alcoholic beverages license. has also petitioned to change the closing hour from 9:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. 7 days a week. >> I vote to approve with conditions. Uh those conditions for me would be no deliveries to customers, no deliveries,
including no third party deliveries, as well as no singles, no miniature bottles, and for them to keep a floor plan on premise for inspection. >> I agree. >> I agree.
>> Great. So granted, no deliveries, including third-party deliveries, no singles, no miniatures, keep the floor plan on file. Um, do we also want to um condition that they may not change the floor plan without board approval? >> Yes, sorry about that. >> Granted with uh with the conditions as
discussed. Item 23. Remington Boston Employers LLC doing business as Hilton Boston Backbay located at 40 Dalton Street. Has petitioned to transfer the license to Highgate Hotels Limited Partnership doing business as the Hilton Boston Back Bay at the same location.
Has also petitioned to update the description of the premise to in a whole of building including hotel. First floor restaurant with bar and function spaces on floors 1 through 4 as well as the basement. There are 26 floors with a basement, four entrances, six exits. There are 401 guest rooms and 12
function spaces totaling 238,532 square ft. Muhammad Abdel Hashes will be the manager with a closing hour of 2 a.m. >> I vote to approve the transfer and to approve Mr. Hashes as manager of record. >> I agree.
>> And the updated description as well. >> Yes, please. >> I agree. >> Thank you. Item number 24. Titation LLC doing business as Titanation located at 129 Jersey Street has petitioned to transfer the license and the location to Hanaru Corporation doing business as
Hanaru located at 168 to 170 Harvard A in Alustin. David Han as manager 11 p.m. closing hour and his petition to remove conditions that applied to the patio at the prior licency. >> I excuse me. I vote to approve the
transfer. Um, I vote to approve Mr. Honest Manager Record and to remove the conditions requested. >> I agree. >> I agree. >> Item 25, Lynn Wyn, doing business as Meridian Corner Mart located at 357 Meridian Street in East Boston has
applied for a retail package store, wines, and malt beverages license. Manager Lynn Wyn, closing time 10 p.m. >> I vote to approve Mr. W as manager of record. I vote to approve um the application for retail package store
wine and malt license. And um that's it. >> I agree. >> I agree. >> Item 26. Dorchester Beer Holdings LLC doing business as Dorchester Brewing Company located at 1250 Massachusetts. A has applied for a common victual or
7-day all alcoholic beverages license. Uh manager Stephanie Berman. closing time 1:00 am with earlier closing times of 11:30 and 12 am in the two patios. >> I vote to approve this application um as well as Miss Burman as manager of
record. >> I agree. >> I agree. >> Great. Just to clarify um what type of license would this be a 02125 zip code restricted or has some other kind of license? >> Yes, the the restricted license. Thank you.
>> Great. So granted an O2125 is a code restricted license for chapter 202 of the exit 2024. Moving on to non-hering transactions. The following are applying for a new common victular license at a previously licensed location. Item one, Everlasting
Flow, Inc. doing business as Everlasting Flow located at 66 Brighton A in Alustin. Manager Kang Jang. Hours of operation 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. >> I vote to approve. >> I agree. I agree.
>> Item two, Nia Fenway LLC. Doing business as Nia, located at 1375 Boilston Street. Manager Aguas Gomez. Hours of operation 11:00 a.m. to 10 p.m. >> I vote to approve. >> I agree. >> I agree.
>> Three, Boston Innovation Community, Inc. doing business as Tanga Grill located at 150 to 156 Dudley Street in Roxberry. Manager Amadu Barry. Hours of operation 6 am to 11 p.m. >> I vote to approve. >> I agree. >> I agree.
>> Item floor, Blue Sakura Group, Inc. doing business as Blue Sakura located at 12 Brighton A in Alustin. Manager Chun Chen hours of operation 12 p.m. to 11 p.m. >> I vote to approve. >> I agree. >> Agree. >> Item five, Garden Slice, Inc. doing
business as Garden Slice located at 100 Causeway Street. Manager Alex Ka hours of operation 10:30 am to 10:30 pm. >> I vote to approve. >> I agree. >> I agree. >> Item six, 477 West Broadway, BB LLC,
doing business as 7th Street Burger, located at 475 West Broadway in South Boston. Manager, Frank Perez. Hours of operation, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. >> I vote to approve. >> I agree. Thank you. Um, Commissioner Car, are you
able to unmute yourself with your camera off? Here we go. See if you're still with us. Commissioner Carvin, are you still with us? I see you unmuted yourself. We are not currently able to hear you term if you want to move through the
rest. Um we do have quorum still. >> Yeah, we can. We still have quorum. Um and I understand the technical difficulties. So we'll continue to go through the agenda. >> Okay. Would he be able to um participate? >> Seven. Nihal Patel uh doing business as
a sole proprietor doing business as FAI Canteen located at 535 Albany Street in Roxbury. Manager Nihal Patel hours of operations 7:00 a.m. to 3 p.m. >> I vote to approve. >> I agree. Item eight, Blank Street, Boston, Mass
LLC. Doing business as Blank Street, located at 800 Boilston Street within the Credential Building. Manager Nick Sanderlands. Hours of operation 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. >> I vote to approve. >> I agree. >> Following has applied to make changes to
their existing common victular license. Bakey, Inc. doing business as Bakey located at 151 Tremont Street has petition to change its hours at just its closing hour from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. >> I vote to approve. >> I agree.
>> Following have applied to make changes to their existing lodging house licenses. Item 1, 284 Hexagon LLC doing business as number 284 located at 284 Commonwealth A has applied to change the manager to Spencer Star Branch. >> I vote to approve.
>> I agree. Looks like Commissioner Kerman is rejoining us currently from the waiting room. Let's see if he's able to participate once he is back on and it appears that we are still waiting. Oh, here we go.
Commissioner Karin, can you hear us now? I will continue with the rest of the agenda. Following applied to make changes to their existing dormatory licenses, items one through five Boston Conservatory at five locations on Fenway have all applied to change the manager to Carl
Styell. >> I vote to approve. >> I agree. Items 6 through 11, Berkeley College of Music at six locations have applied to change the manager of all locations also to Carl Styidell. >> I vote to approve.
>> I agree. >> And items 12 through 28, uh, Wentworth Institute of Technology at 17 locations have applied to change the manager of all of these dormitories to Mike Campa. >> I vote to approve.
>> I agree. The following have applied for one-day amendments to their existing licenses. Item one, Notch Brighton Tapum LLC located at 1420 to 1440 Soldiersfield Road has applied to extend to the outdoor courtyard for the Brighton Bazaar on April 10th through the 12th
from 12:00 p.m. to 6 p.m. and on April 23rd and 24th from 5:00 p.m. to 10 p.m. >> I vote to approve. >> Great. >> Am I back? >> Yeah, you are. Sorry.
>> No worries. We We lost you for a little bit there. Um All right. Would you like to vote on this item? >> Uh let's just go to the next one. I I don't think it heard the whole thing. >> Okay, great. >> Um yeah, Zoom is crashing on me. I don't know what's going on. >> No worries. We're we're glad you're
back. Did you want to weigh in on any of the ones that we we missed while you were out? Those are non-herent transactions. >> Yeah, non-herings. I think that you guys are all right. Thanks. >> Great. Item two, Polish American Citizens Club of South Boston, Inc. located at 82 Boston Street in Dorchester has applied
to extend alcohol service onto the contiguous street for Polish Constitution Day 2026 on May 31st from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. >> I vote to approve. >> I agree. >> Agree. >> Item three, the Catered to Affair, Inc.
uh doing business as the catered affair at 700 Boilston Street within the Boston Public Library has applied to extend their closing hour for a wedding on May 16th from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. >> I vote to approve. >> I agree. >> I agree. Item four, AHF Speedway Holdings LLC
doing business as the Charles River Speedway located at 1420 to 1440 Soldiersfield Road in Brighton has applied to extend their existing license into the Speedway patio from April 15th through the 22nd and April 25th through the 30th from 12:00 p.m. to 11 p.m. >> I vote to approve.
>> I agree. >> I agree. board has before them a list of special one-day uh applications for alcoholic beverages licenses which have been administratively reviewed by staff for approval by the board
>> and there is one item for a vote on old and new business. The board had deferred the following application so that the office of neighborhood services could hold one additional butters meeting which it did hold. This is Farah Enterprises Inc. doing business as Domino's Pizza at 277 Main Street in Charles Town, petitioning to change
their closing hours from 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. Feedback we heard from ons was that uh concerns at the Butters meeting were focused on noise from late night and overnight deliveries to the premise, not the premises actual operating hours. >> Okay. So, I vote to approve the
requested change. >> I agree. >> I agree. >> The application is granted. Those are all the items before the board this morning. Um that will then adjourn this hearing. Thank you all and do enjoy the rest of your day. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you.