Wine-sipping charcuterie lovers square off against the rest of Beacon Hill in battle over sit-down alcohol service at DeLuca's on Charles Street

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The Boston Licensing Board could determine time whether to fto DeLuca's Market connected Charles Street service brew and vino astatine tables to radical who privation to sup connected charcuterie boards of food and nutrient samples.

Virgil Aiello, proprietor of the iconic market, which started arsenic a effect basal successful 1900, said astatine a proceeding contiguous that customers support asking him if for sit-down charcuterie - and the quality to bid a brew oregon immoderate vino to spell with it. He said the sit-down work would beryllium the latest improvement of the marketplace successful gathering the needs of some adjacent residents and tourists.

But the mayor's office, City Councilor Kenzie Bok and the Beacon Hill Civic Association each urged the committee to cull Aiello's connection to let sit-down work astatine the 20 tables helium already has, astatine which customers utilized to beryllium capable to acquisition take-out nutrient that they would past devour close there. DeLuca's has an intoxicant license, but lone for the merchantability of cans and bottles to go, not for radical to portion connected the premises.

The civic relation said the spot wasn't good maintained and that Aiello was simply excessively vague astir his plans for the abstraction and adjacent for what relation his daughters would play successful the cognition of the marketplace going forward. Aides to the politician and Bok some said they had received ample numbers of letters and email messages successful opposition.

Aiello said helium has ne'er had an ISD usurpation and that his daughters, who person agelong helped retired astatine the market, volition yet go managers arsenic helium eases into retirement. He gave the committee a petition signed by immoderate 500 radical successful favor.

If the committee does o.k. the DeLuca's proposal, it would past person to rummage astir to spot if it really has immoderate licenses to manus out.

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