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Harvest is a Harvard Square restaurant originally owned in 1975 by Benjamin Thompson (architect) (he designed it as well) and his wife Jane. They closed in 1997 because of “growing competition and poor management” but reopened under new management [1] (past managers R. Patrick Bowe and Jayne Bowe) [2] and renovations by Elkus Manfredi. [1]
Entrance on Palmer Street. Club Passim is an American folk music club in the Harvard Square area of Cambridge, Massachusetts.It was opened by Joyce Kalina (now Chopra) and Paula Kelley in 1958, [1] when it was known as Club 47 (based on its then address, 47 Mount Auburn Street, also in Cambridge; it moved to its present location on Palmer Street in 1963), and changed its name to simply Passim ...
Rialto was a restaurant in Harvard Square’s Charles Hotel owned by Jody Adams and Michela Larson. [2] Opened in 1994, it closed on June 22, 2016. [3] Originally, it was announced she would leave the restaurant in the hands of executive chef David Ladner, but it was later announced it would close down.
The 1977 film Between the Lines features similar Harvard Square footage as well as aerial footage of the Back Bay. The 1994 film With Honors has a scene filmed in Harvard Square in which the Out of Town Newsstand is featured. In the scene, Monty approaches Simon as he (Simon) is attempting to sell newspapers he took out of a vending machine.
The restaurant is perhaps most famous for the lawsuit Larkin v. Grendel's Den, Inc. , 459 U.S. 116 (1982), [ 1 ] which reached the Supreme Court of the United States in 1982. The suit challenged the Massachusetts state blue law (16C) allowing a school or a religious institution within 500 feet of a liquor license applicant to prevent the issuance.
Yoshi's (also known as Yoshi's Jazz Club and Yoshi's Oakland) is a nightclub located in Jack London Square in Oakland, California, United States. The venue originally opened in 1972 as a restaurant in Berkeley, later moving to Claremont Avenue in Oakland. In 1979, the restaurant expanded into a lounge/nightclub hosting local and national jazz ...
In March 2016, a group of restaurateurs announced plans to open a restaurant in the Conductor's Building by the end of 2016. [10] The restaurant, Les Sablons, opened in April 2017 and closed in August 2018. [11] [12] An American Chinese restaurant and tiki bar, Wusong Road, opened in the building in December 2021. [13] [14]
The Tasty Sandwich Shop, often called "The Tasty", was a restaurant that operated from 1916 to 1997 near the intersection of JFK Street and Brattle Street, at the center of Harvard Square, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was housed in the Read Block building, on the site of the home of colonial poet Anne Bradstreet. The Tasty closed in 1997 ...