As one historic restaurant might be on verge of re-opening, another might be closing forever

The re-birth of the historical Jacob Wirth German edifice connected Stuart Street mightiness coincide with extremity of the historical Marliave French and Italian edifice astatine Bosworth and Province streets.

At a Boston Licensing Board proceeding today, Julius Sokol's lawyer said his lawsuit hopes to re-open Jacob Wirth with "no changes" from what it utilized to beryllium earlier it unopen successful 2018, by buying the liquor licence from the agelong shuttered Daisy Buchanan's connected Newbury Street.

Also today, the lawyer for a long-time Back Bay edifice landlord said his lawsuit wants to bargain the liquor licence from the arsenic historical Marliave, which unopen owed to Covid-19 past year, to re-open a barroom and edifice astatine the erstwhile determination of Lir connected Boylston Street, which besides closed owed to Covid-19.

The committee volition apt instrumentality nary enactment connected the projected Jacob Wirth licence transportation until astatine slightest November, erstwhile Sokol has the past of his required meetings with vicinity groups successful Chinatown and the "Midtown" area.

Sokol's attorney, Michael Ford, said Sokol would reconstruct Jacob Wirth to the mode it was earlier h2o harm from a occurrence forced it to adjacent successful 2018 - "the aforesaid happening with the beers and whatnot."

Ford said the nationalist request for a liquor licence astatine the Stuart Street tract is proved by the erstwhile restaurant's past - which dates to 1868.

"We're trying bring backmost the quality and capable backmost that name," helium said. In 2019 and earlier this year, 2 different groups projected caller uses for the site, 1 arsenic a sports bar, the different arsenic a marijuana shop; some faded away.

Sokol is portion of a City Realty-associated task that has been buying up dives and different bars successful the Boston country for the past mates of years.

In different hearing, Jon Aieta, lawyer for longtime Back Bay landlord Charles Talanian, said his lawsuit wants to bargain the liquor licence for Marliave and would past prosecute an relation to re-open the erstwhile Lir abstraction - portion of a enactment of Boylston Street bars that closed successful speedy succession successful the outpouring of 2020 owed to Covid-19.

Aieta said Talanian truly wants to re-open the space, but has been incapable to find a imaginable lawsuit consenting to wage the precocious outgo of acquiring a liquor licence connected their ain - successful a metropolis wherever helium said licence prices person rebounded since past twelvemonth and are present much costly than ever - adjacent to $500,000. Instead, Talanian would put successful the licence acquisition and past prosecute a bar/restaurant relation to "manage" the Lir abstraction nether that license.

Aieta said Talanian would not beryllium making oregon allowing immoderate large changes successful the space. As with Jacob Wirth, helium said the nationalist request is proved by its past - 40 years with a liquor license, arsenic Lir and, earlier that, a Chinese restaurant.

Also similar Jacob Wirth, Marliave has a agelong past - it archetypal opened one n1885, erstwhile French migrant Henry Marliave opened a edifice connected Bosworth Street.

Although Talanian has met with the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay, the licensing committee volition apt defer enactment connected its licence transportation arsenic well, due to the fact that the relation has yet to ballot connected the proposal.