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Sunday, February 10, 2013

No Mail Saturdays, Liquor Sales on Sundays, Widening 494 and Pizza Wars: Pick of Our Patches

Also appearing in this week's West Metro news roundup: Anne of Green Gables and some really rich SuperValu folks. And the USPS says farewell to Saturdays.

Editor’s Note: Every week we bring you a sampling of stories from Patch sites in the west metro: Eden Prairie, Edina, Fridley, Golden Valley, Hopkins, Lake Minnetonka, Maple Grove, Minnetonka, Plymouth, Richfield, Southwest Minneapolis, St. Louis Park and St. Michael. (Click on the headline to read the full story.) Should Liquor Be Sold on Sundays? Local liquor stores have opposing views on a bill to lift the ban on Sunday liquor sales in Minnesota. “The fact that I'm not allowed to be open because of an embarassing, Draconian, ridiculous law from a previous era is absolutely infuriating," said liquor store owner Jason Alvey. "Al Capone has been dead for a long time, people. This is a different world we live in today.” MnDOT Shares Plans …

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Boston Garden to Close for Good Jan. 31

Owners of a former Bloomington restaurant will start renovations soon afterward and open a new pizzeria in the spring.

After 30 years serving Mainstreet customers, Boston Garden will be closing its doors for good next week, co-owner Felix Kerawala announced Thursday afternoon. The restaurant will close Jan. 31 when its license expires, Kerawala said. In its place, three former owners of a Bloomington restaurant whose lease expired will be opening a pizzeria. Renovation in the Boston Garden space will start next month, and the new pizzeria should open in the spring. (Kerawala didn’t immediately have details about the owners or the new restaurant, but he will be putting Patch in touch with them. Patch will have more information afterward.) The closure is not unexpected. Kerawala, who owns both the restaurant and the building in which it’s located, said in …

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9:46 am on Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Too bad the other mediterannean place isn't moving in. That Ansari guy is a real chef who makes great food. Hopefully the pizza place will clean up that space and actually offer good food to Hopkins. Can we get an up update on this? Also, is something moving into the old quizno's space on 8th? I asked about that over a year ago and never got a follow up. There are construction papers up in the …   more ›

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