From Dave Brigham:
Restaurants come, and restaurants go, sometimes after a few years, often after many decades. On a recent (well, sorta) stroll through South Boston, I came across two eateries that have shut their doors, which is no surprise given the amount of development going on in that neighborhood.
KO Pies on A Street near the Broadway subway station closed in the spring of 2018, although the owners didn't make it official until several months later when they announced the sale of the building. The small storefront opened in 2010 and sold Australian meat pies in flavors including beef, lamb, and curried vegetable, along with other foods. Being in such a hot development market convinced the proprietors, who owned the building, to sell and concentrate on their East Boston outlet.
While KO Pies has another location in another neighborhood, Mul's Diner, a 65-year-old greasy spoon located not too far away on West Broadway and A Street, has moved its business across the street into neighborhood stalwart Amrhein's, according to this Boston Globe article. I'm not sure how the agreement works, but for now Mul's is offering its standard diner fare inside the venerable Irish restaurant.
A developer acquired the Mul's site last year and announced plans to level the eatery and put up -- wait for it -- condos on top of ground-floor commercial space. The site was owned by the folks who own Amrheins, which also may shut down (see November 17, 2018, "Southie to Lose An Institution"). The restaurant's owners "agreed to sell the Amrheins building and parking lot to City Point Capital, a real-estate development firm," per the Globe article. "The business itself would not be sold, and the restaurant would stay open for at least another 18 months because Amrheins would still have a lease," the paper reported in April 2019.
(The interior of the shuttered Mul's Diner.)
Stay tuned....
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