Former Subway will become Revival Cafe

[teko]

Chef Steve "Nookie" Postal signed a lease for the former Davis Square Subway back in mid-2016, and he's announced that it'll become a cafe called Revival. It was formerly the first Bertucci's, and the original plan was to use the original bocce court in the basement, but apparently that's against code now.

The article linked above also says that a second Revival location is going in at Alewife alongside a 7,000 square foot beer hall possibly called Mothership.

Comments

[rmd]

Any establishment called "Mothership" had better play P-Funk.

[surrealestate]

Wow, it's about time North Cambridge got some real beer! That is amazing news to finally hear about something worthwhile happening on CambridgePark Drive. Nookie was wrong to call thos condos though -- there is not one single condo as far as I know, it is all rentals. If in fact some of those buildings were condos, the area probably wouldn't be as useless because people would be more likely to fight for improvement instead of just leaving.

ETA: In my haste, I misinterpreted the beer hall as a brewpub ala Aeronauts or American Fresh, so oh well, not as beer-rific as I initially thought, but still sounds like fun, and the rest still applies.

[vonelftinhaus]

WoW so he has had the lease for that space for 2 years(or about that)?

Code is very helpful and very glad we have them but I figure in a situation like this it prevented a fun space to be utilized. If I recall anything beyond first floor usage, like a basement or 2nd flr, requires means of egress for the allowed person capacity and possibly handicap accessibility. There must of been a large cost associated with the basement use

[abilouise]

Seconded on feeling sad about the bocce court, though also totally understanding that codes are awesome.