Foundry in Davis Square - from "Boston Restaurant Talk"

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Foundry Is Coming to Davis Square, Somerville

 

A new restaurant, lounge, and theater is coming to the Davis Square neighborhood of Somerville, moving into the space vacated by a home goods store.

Based on information from one poster on our Twitter page and another on the Chowhound site, a sign is up at the old Bowl & Board location on Elm Street for Foundry, which, according to Grub Street Boston, is going to be an American brasserie with a speakeasy lounge and a theater that will handle everything from comedy shows to music to children's theater. Foundry, which will be run by the same person behind The Independent and Precinct Bar (both in Somerville's Union Square), is expected to feature a raw bar, more than 30 beers on tap, and 100 bottles of wine from which to choose.

Right now, it appears that Foundry may open sometime in the late summer or fall.

The address for this upcoming restaurant, lounge, and theater will be: Foundry, 255 Elm Street, Somerville, MA, 02144.

Comments

Re: sounds good to me!

[svilletheatre.livejournal.com]

Really Ron? I mean, compared to the glory days of the 50's and 60's, sure there is less general retail, but compared to 30 years ago? My mom wouldn't even let me ride my bike to 'the Rosebud end of the square' because it was so shady - and I don't mean trees.

I am amazed at the amount of cool local retail compared to my childhood. Just walking from my house to work there are great little places on Holland that were never there - furniture store, Black & Blue, Dave's Market, Boston Shaker, etc. There's still two consignment stores, the Goodwill, a fruit & veggie market, a butcher shop, two fabulous gift shops, the sewing store, a camera shop. The only department store when I was a kid was Almy's, which is the equivalent of a Marshalls - and people would crap their pants if they thought a Marshalls was moving into the square today. The CVS at least is more retail than existed at One Davis Square in over 30 years.