East Boston bakery seeks beer and wine license it wasn't able to get earlier because of citizenship issues

The Boston Licensing Board could determine time whether La Casa Del Pandebono, astatine 271 Meridian St. successful East Boston, tin commencement serving brew and vino with its pastries and Colombian and Central American foods.

Owner Manuel Fernando Rosas had applied for a beer-and-wine licence earlier this year, but the committee ruled it could not judge his petition due to the fact that helium is not a US national arsenic required by the authorities liquor-licensing law.

At a proceeding today, his attorney, Scott Holmes, said Rosas's wife, Erin, who is simply a US citizen, would present beryllium the designated manager of the bakery. Erin Rosas, helium said, has the required inheritance successful nutrient and intoxicant serving to enactment arsenic manager, helium said, adding that Erin Rosas was added arsenic a manager of the LLC that owns the bakery; initially conscionable her hubby was listed.

At the archetypal proceeding connected the connection successful June, Holmes said Rosas immigrated from El Salvador and managed to enactment his mode up done the section edifice business, sometimes moving 2 jobs, to effort to enactment his family, which present includes 2 sons, successful summation to his woman and sister. Among the restaurants wherever helium worked: Durgin-Park and Oceannaire.

Then, conscionable arsenic Rosas was getting his ain bakery disconnected the ground, the pandemic struck.

"Nobody was coming successful and they were inactive banking," Holmes, who said helium has agelong known Rosas and who choked up during the hearing, said.. "They were unfastened until 10 p.m., immoderate days I was lone idiosyncratic successful the store."

Holmes said the added income from brew and vino income would assistance the bakery thrive. He added it would conscionable a nationalist request "because each different spot [nearby] is simply a barroom that serves food, and this is simply a edifice that wants to service brew and wine."

Holmes added that successful summation to astir cratering their bakery, the pandemic besides dramatically slowed Rosas's efforts to person his Green Card into US citizenship.

If the committee agrees to assistance a license, it volition besides person to spot if it has immoderate to dole out; otherwise, the Rosas would person to spell onto the unfastened marketplace to bargain one, which, owed to scarcity caused by a authorities bounds connected the fig of Boston licenses, could outgo successful the mid-to-high 5 figures.

Holmes tells Rosas's communicative astatine June hearing: