South Boston could get a North End style cafe, and what's that without liqueurs?

The proprietor of Brodway's Pastry, 258 West Broadway, has plans to make what could beryllium the neighborhood's archetypal spot wherever older residents could unbend with an espresso aft a time of buying oregon conscionable aft dinner, similar Caffè Vittoria oregon Caffè Paradiso successful the North End.

At a Boston Licensing Board proceeding today, Arian Hysenaj's attorney, Carolyn Conway, says he's already hired a pastry cook from Mike's connected Hanover Street to footwear his pastry crippled up a notch. Letting him service alcoholic drinks would supply an adjacent much welcoming ambiance for radical who person nary motortruck with the neighborhood's rowdier watering holes.

"We privation to spell towards the much mature radical successful the neighborhood," Conway said. "We're not going towards the younger acceptable [but] radical who unrecorded astir america to travel and person coffees. ... We privation springiness them thing that's not determination successful the vicinity close now, which is an upscale java shop, basically, that serves alcoholic beverages."

Hysenaj has tally his bakery for respective years now. He formerly owned the L Street Diner, wherever helium ne'er had immoderate of the sorts of problems that bring the BPD's licensing portion successful for inspections, she said.

The mayor's bureau and aides to City Councilors Ed Flynn and Michael Flaherty spoke successful support, arsenic did an adjutant to authorities Sen. Nick Collins. Two adjacent residents besides supported the idea, saying Hysenaj has proven a large neighbor.

If the committee approves the request, perchance astatine a gathering tomorrow, it would besides person to spot if there's a escaped licence floating astir its offices. If not, Hysenaj would either person to hold until 1 becomes disposable oregon spell connected the unfastened market, wherever 1 could tally much than $300,000.