Monday, February 4, 2013
Expansion, brides-to-be leads 'destination' shop to add space, seating.
Natalie McEachern, the owner and baker at Belmont's Glutenus Minimus, has been busy telling her neighbors that she is not opening the equivalent of a wheat-free McDonald's on Belmont Street. "I few of them freaked out until I told them the whole story," said McEachern, who opened her no-gluten bakery in October, 2010. McEachern had to reassure abutters and others when they received notice in the past weeks from the Belmont Zoning Board of Appeals that Glutenus Minimus would be seeking to convert its retail operation into a "fast food establishment." But the 31-year-old Arlington native is not seeking to turn her single location bakery into a high-turnover restaurant with cars seeking parking spaces in the narrow side streets. "It's just …
Friday, October 19, 2012
Merchants stepping up to help Belmont High's Stride team.
Belmont merchants are stepped up to support Belmont High School's "Making Strides Against Breast Cancer" team. Businesses throughout town are donating portion of proceeds from a day or through the month of October to the American Cancer Society on behalf of the Belmont High team. • If you shop at Thirty Petals Boutique in Belmont Center today, Friday, Oct. 19, the store will donate 15 percent of the day’s proceeds to the American Cancer Society. • Beginning today and lasting until Oct. 31, open a checking account at Belmont Savings Bank and mention "Belmont High School and breast cancer," the bank will donate $5 for each account opened. • And finally, get fit for a cause! Starting today and running to Oct. 31, purchase a bodytrio group …
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Belmont Savings Bank
2 Leonard St, Belmont, MA
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Thirty Petals Boutique
34 Leonard St, Belmont, MA
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Friday, August 24, 2012
A time-honored tradition of planting the seeds of capitalism with a stand in your front yard.
Van Seraderian, 8, and his brother, Arek, 9, were on the sidewalk outside their Common Street house waiting for customers to come by their small business. And in the most time-honored of American traditions, their first-ever venture into the dog-eat-dog world of capitalism was a summer-time lemonade stand. The brothers were selling the sweetened pink version (50 cents a glass) along with vegetables and herbs from their mom's garden. Mom Sylvie Seraderian said the stand was a way for them to understand how to make money "instead of just spending it." "It's time to work," she said with a laugh. Coming up Common were the Daly siblings, led by big sister, Emma, who purchased four glasses after learning of its reasonable price. It turned out …
Monday, August 6, 2012
Racks up yet another honor in Boston Magazine's annual "Best of" issue.
There is only one restaurant to eat in the western suburbs and that place is, once again, in Belmont. And for the second time, Belmont Center's il Casale takes home Boston magazine's Best of Boston award for excellence as the Best Suburbs, West restaurant. The honor can be found in the magazine that hit the newsstands on July 31. with its always-highly-anticipated Best of Boston awards issue. "For the past 12 months, Boston magazine’s team of expert judges ate, drank, and shopped their way across the city, the ‘burbs, the Cape and the Islands to find the very best the area has to offer," said the editors. "This year the magazine names 291 winners – from best new restaurant to best fine jewelry – including its 19 'Singular Sensations,' …
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Il Casale
50 Leonard St, Belmont, MA
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Center's Craft Beer Cellar to work to promote artisan drinks in state. Nationwide? Well.
Before friends, fans and beer lovers, Suzanne Schalow reminisced a little on Tuesday, remembering the day nearly two years ago when she and her partner, Kate Baker, worried that their dream of spreading the word about craft beer from a store in Belmont would be ignored. But on that first day, she recalled, 35 people stood on the sidewalk, waiting for the doors to open for the first time at Craft Beer Cellar on Leonard Street. "That's when I knew we had something that would grow," said Schalow to Belmont Patch. And since the opening, the store has thrived as it has become a mecca for patrons of artisan beers, stocking more than 1,100 small craft beers, most from US and New England brewers. So, Schalow said at the Tuesday gathering, it's …
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Craft Beer Cellar
51 Leonard St, Belmont, MA
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Christopher Cho's third restaurant is Belmont's first fast food store.
It's been nine months since he came before the Belmont Zoning Board of Appeals, months of outfitting the site of the former TCBY space, and weeks of training a new staff and last minute permits and inspections. Finally, today at 8 a.m., Christopher Cho will open the doors to Subway Restaurant's 37,187th store worldwide but Belmont's first ever fast food restaurant. This is Cho's third Subway franchise that he owns in the area – the others are in Somerville and Sturbridge – which is a departure from his previous work as a consultant for a merger-and-acquisition firm for this Dartmouth and Ross Business School (University of Michigan) grad. The native of the Buffalo, NY region was looking for businesses for his clients to buy as investments …
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59 Leonard St, Belmont, MA
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Friday, June 15, 2012
Arlington-based bakery to open third shop in former Frankie's Catch of the Day.
Where once salmon, lobster and scallops were sold, Belmont shoppers will have the opportunity to purchase world-class breakfast baked goods, barista coffees and teas and homemade goodies as Quebrada Baking Company transforms the long-time Frankie's Catch of the Day into a high-end bakery, according to town officials. The East Arlington-based retail bakery and cafe company, now in its 35th year, has begun talks with the town's Health Department to create its third shop – its current locations are in East Arlington (208 Massachusetts Ave. on the same block as the Capitol Theater) and Wellesley Hills (272 Washington St.) – at 19 Leonard St. at the corner of Channing Road. The 650-square-foot store front commercial space is undergoing $2,000 …
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19 Leonard St, Belmont, MA
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Ten days of repairs on Leonard Street begins a day after summer begins.
You won't be able to celebrate the first full day of summer with a cooling frappuccino in Belmont Center. Due to issues with its plumbing and refrigeration units, Starbucks has pushed up by nearly two months the scheduled renovation of its store on Leonard Street. The location is now scheduled to close on Friday, June 22 for 10 days, opening the week of the July 4th holiday. The coffee shop at 47 Leonard St. is a decade old and was placed on the list of locations across the country to undergo a near-gut rehab and be supplied a new updated look. But since the news came out, the store has had to closed one of the two restrooms due to plumbing problems as the refrigeration equipment has been needing frequent repairs. Rather than committing …
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Starbucks Coffee
47 Leonard St, Belmont, MA
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Alchemy 9.2.5, Belmont Center's newest jewelers, is co-owned by Belmont's Munya Upin.
In the 1930s, anthropologists dug up a matched set of sea shells in a South African cave. The ocean, they noted, was many miles away and the type of mollusk not a food source. The scientists assumed that whoever brought them back must have found the shells beautiful. Seventeen of the shells had been perforated, as if to be strung. The holes in the shells also showed wear from twine or leather. The conclusion: 100,000 years ago, one of our ancestors collected the shells for a necklace, to wear or give to someone else. The scientists suspect that the find is the earliest example of jewelry. As anniversaries, birthdays or holidays like Mother’s Day approach, shoppers will be looking for symbols of esteem and affection beyond what they can …
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48 Leonard St, Belmont, MA
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Monday, May 7, 2012
"Family" store across from Macy's will be before Zoning Board for hearing.
It was before 9 a.m., Monday, May 7, and Miroslav Rahnev had already finished with one customer and had two others waiting their turn at his small barbershop, KOCA Barbershop, located at 80 Leonard St. in Belmont Center. The master barber, who has operated his business for the past four years, said he has a successful operation at the busy commercial center. Rahnev is now looking to use his entrepreneurial talents and open a new coffee shop in his current store directly across for Macy's near the corner of Alexander Avenue. The Belmont resident will come before the Zoning Board of Appeals tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Beech Street Center to seek permission to open a "family-run" shop run by his wife, Maria, at the location of the barbershop…
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80 Leonard St, Belmont, MA
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Anne Lougee
5:51 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
I LOVVVE this store! Belmont is fortunate to have these products easily available. more ›