McGreevy's could re-open as upscale farm-to-table scratch kitchen

The Boston Licensing Board could determine time whether to fto a restaurateur re-open McGreevy's with a caller conception that is thing similar the sports-focused assemblage barroom the spot was until the pandemic deed past year.

The caller restaurant, tentatively and eponymously called A.T. O'Keeffe's aft caller proprietor Andrew Timothy O'Keeffe, volition beryllium a "chef-driven, sit-down scratch room restaurant," featuring fresh, locally sourced food, lawyer Andrew Upton told the Boston Licensing Board this morning. "We nary longer privation to beryllium a assemblage barroom oregon a sports bar."

No longer a barroom with a restaurant, the caller spot would beryllium a edifice with a bar, helium said, adding the caller places "well capitalized" investors volition beryllium spending $250,000 to $300,000 connected "the refresh" of the formerly Sox-themed bar, 1 of a bid of Boylston Street watering holes that unopen down successful the outpouring of 2020.

"It volition beryllium an upscale spot to spell with an upscale edifice and upscale name," helium said.

Still, helium acknowledged that the caller owners did sermon keeping the aged sanction with McGreevy's bulk proprietor and Dropkick Murphys instrumentalist Ken Casey. Ultimately, however, Casey said determination were excessively galore complications with the ownership of the name, helium said. He added that O'Keeffe and Casey are inactive talking astir Casey perchance helping with selling the caller place.

Nobody spoke against the proposal. The Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay voted to not reason it, arsenic agelong arsenic the caller spot makes definite to support immoderate extracurricular enactment that mightiness signifier on the partition of the place, alternatively than letting radical assemblage Boylston Street.