brand new restaurant coming to the square!

[one-skill.livejournal.com]

Hi all,

In case you're wondering what all of the construction hub-bub is about where the old Sauce used to be, I can fill you in.... it's being revamped into:

400 Highland

...you probably saw the new sign posted

Anyway, its grand opening is on Monday, April 3rd. You can check up on it on their website 400highland.com

I know the guys running the place, and it's going to be great. The new chef is imported to Boston from California, and is amazing.

Hope you see you there on opening night!

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[siderea]

And Marino's does OK.

[ron_newman]

But Marino's is going to be torn down soon, from what I've read in some local paper.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

What, really? Sucky.

[siderea]

!!! Which paper?

[ron_newman]

Looks like it wasn't in a newspaper -- it was in an e-mail newsletter I got from the Porter Square Neighbors Association:

From: shunziker@comcast.net (Susan Hunziker)

I went to the North Cambridge Stabilization meeting tonight, and I'm passing along a couple items of interest.

Re: Final plans for the Hess Express [former Gas with a Smile][omitted here since it isn't relevant -- RN]

Re: Marino's

The site is about to be sold to the guy who is developing the former Buy-Rite liquor site at the corner of Cedar and Mass Ave. The current lease expires in August, and the restaurant will move outside Cambridge. The building will be demolished and replaced with housing. The site itself has some apparently unintentional spot zoning that would permit a larger building with a smaller setback than would the zoning on either side.

NCSC [North Cambridge Stabilization Committee] is trying to fix the zoning. The petition to do so will be heard by the ordinance committee next Wednesday night (March 15 at 6 PM). The city council will hear it on Monday, March 20. I won't be able to attend either meeting, but I encourage all of you who are interested the future of Mass Ave to turn up and be counted. Just showing up really helps. If you can't do that, contact some city councilors. (I know that two of them subscribe to this list.)

[siderea]

How horrible! It's such a beautiful building!

[siderea]

Hey, I don't suppose this PSNA (or, for that matter, NCSC) has RSS? How often do they post?

[ron_newman]

It's a mailing list. I don't think they post anything online. Here's the PSNA mailing list's web page, if you want to sign up.