Retro Burger & Ice Cream Approved for Mass. Ave.

The new eatery received its operating license Monday night from the Board of Selectmen.

The Board of Selectmen unanimously granted Arlington resident Bill Maund an operating license for Retro Burger & Ice Cream for 795 Mass. Ave. Monday night. Maund, who’s lived in Arlington for 19 years and raised his kids in town, is moving his burger and hot dog joint slash ice cream parlor from Cape Cod’s West Yarmouth to the former home of Cakes Bakery & Cafe. The restaurant opened at 44 Route 28 in West Yarmouth in 2010. Maund said he plans to open in Arlington “sometime this summer.” More on Arlington Patch Cape Cod Burger Joint Moving to Arlington?

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Cape Cod Burger Joint Moving to Arlington?

See what appears to be in the works.

Retro Burger & Ice Cream, a West Yarmouth burger joint, appears to be trying to move to Arlington. The restaurant’s owner, Bill Maund, is scheduled to go before the Board of Selectmen Monday night (see agenda) for a common victualler, or operating, license for “Retro Burger & Ice Cream” for 795 Mass. Ave., the former home of Cakes Bakery & Cafe. And the following is posted on the eatery’s website: “Retro Burger wants to thank all of our wonderful and loyal customers who have visited us on Cape Cod over the last three seasons. However, we have decided to move the store into the Boston market. Please check back for further updates.” The restaurant opened at 44 Route 28 in West Yarmouth in 2010. Its menu features a variety of burgers ($8 or $…

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REVIEWS: Menotomy Grill & Tavern

Review East Arlington’s newest restaurant in the comments below.

Now that Menotomy Grill & Tavern’s open, we want to know your take. How is the food? How is the menu? What about the service and the ambiance? Let us know by posting a comment below.

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5 Things You Need To Know Today

Updated Open Date for Menotomy Grill & Tavern

See when the new East Arlington restaurant is opening.

Today is Tuesday, June 4. Here are five things you need to know. 1.) Menotomy Grill & Tavern will open Monday, June 10, according to a Monday post on its Facebook page. 2.) Update on Friday’s tanker spill. 3.) Today should be sunny with a high near 77, according to the National Weather Service. 4.) Take a look inside the 163-year-old Obed Winter House. It’s on the market for $779,000. 5.) Post an event on Arlington Patch.

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First Look: Menotomy Grill & Tavern

A sneak peek inside Arlington's soon-to-be newest restaurant, and the latest details on its opening date, chef, menu and more.

Here are the latest details on Menotomy Grill & Tavern, the new East Arlington restaurant slated for 25 Mass. Ave. Opening date: Owner Billy Lyons, of Arlington, said Menotomy Grill & Tavern should open to the public by the end of next week. “We’re just waiting on a gas connection,” he said Friday. Lyons, who has been in the restaurant for roughly three decades, said he designed about 90 percent of the restaurant himself. “I’ve had it in my head for years,” he said. Chef and menu: Lyons has hired Mark Thompson as the restaurant’s chef. The two worked together at Stoddard’s Fine Food & Ale in Boston. Thompson was also the chef de cuisine at Chez Henri in Cambridge for nearly a decade. Here is the restaurant’s opening menu. Drink special: …

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Jamie

6:46 pm on Tuesday, June 4, 2013

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Can You Guess the Arlington Restaurant?

How well do you know Arlington's restaurant scene?

Submit your answer in the comments below. And if you're really good, see if you can name what menu item it is.

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New Restaurant Approved for Summer Street

See what's moving into a long-vacant space.

A new Asian restaurant with a sushi bar is moving into two of the three long-vacant storefronts across from Summer Street Field. Sono restaurant received common victualler and all-alcohol licenses Monday from the Board of Selectmen in a unanimous vote. A common victualler license allows a business to serve food. The restaurant will occupy the two vacant storefronts to the right of 469-471 Summer St., leaving one vacant space between it and Arlington Cafe, which is actually a pizza place. It plans to open this June or July, its owner, Huanhuan Lin, wrote on his application for the licenses. The 1,807-square-foot restaurant is expected to seat 50, 40 at tables and 10 at the sushi bar, according to the application. It will not have a lounge …

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Three New Businesses Looking to Come to Arlington

All three would serve food.

Three new businesses are set to go before the Board of Selectmen Monday evening, according to the board’s agenda. Sono Restaurant, Anthony’s East Side Deli and Yummy’s will be seeking common victualler or operating licenses. Sono will also be seeking an all-alcohol license. Also on the agenda: "Selectmen to Consider Two Controversial Warrant Articles Monday" Sono Restaurant Not much was known about the applicants Thursday evening. However, Sono would serve Asian cuisine, and it’s slated for 469 Summer St. (pictured bottom), the vacant storefront across from Summer Street Field. In June, Thomas Vakalfotis sought to open Arlington Heights Liquors there, but selectmen granted the two available licenses to Mystic Wine Shoppe and the Meat House…

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Joe

10:19 am on Friday, May 24, 2013

It is always nice to see a business occupy an empty space rather than building a new place and leaving all the empty ones empty. How can you call this storefront "rundown" the whole block was just recently renovated   more ›

Two Arlington Restaurants Changing Owners

See how much they went for.

A Mexican restaurant in East Arlington and a Thai one in the center are changing owners. The new owners of Zocalo Cocina Mexicana and Thai Moon went before the Board of Selectmen Monday to apply for new operating and beer and wine licenses. Both restaurants received the licenses in unanimous votes. Zocalo Zocalo’s three new owners, Nicolas and Maria Portillo and Jose Landaverde, all of whom own a third of the business, were represented by an attorney at Monday’s meeting. Nicolas Portillo, a native of El Salvador, already owns Portillo Food Market in East Boston, while Landaverde has been a waiter at Zocalo for almost a decade. The three incorporated as Arlington Restaurant Group. “We plan [on] operating the restaurant exactly as it …

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