"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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Opening today, dwelltime – between Harvard, Central squares – for those who appreciate coffee.
Americans have had a long love affair with coffee. Americans average about nine pounds ofcoffee beans a year per person. If a pound can make 40, 6-ounce cups, that comes to around 20 gallons. A quick tally of coffee shops around Belmont's Cushing Square adds up to at least two local businesses and two national chains. All seem to be doing well, as places to enjoy coffee, food, friends and community. Israel Fridman, a Belmont resident for over two decades, learned to appreciate coffee in his native Mexico City. He remembers growing up in his neighborhood with coffee and chocolate roasting shops, which filled streets with aromas he has long associated with an enjoyment of friends sharing good drink and food. A chemical engineer, Fridman …
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Robert
2:19 pm on Monday, April 9, 2012
Right on Israel! Good luck. I will stop by sometime to see wha a real cup of coffee should taste like. Robert Silverman robert@handymanrob.com more ›