1 Reopening and a Funeral: Vive La Boulange(?), Au Revoir Betelnut

While food blogs are abuzz this morning about the possible redemption/reopening of La Boulange cafes not just on Union Street but throughout our fair city, a longtime dining staple right across the street is throwing in the chopsticks.

Betelnut is closing. In 2 days.

Update: American Cupcake -- > Italian Marketplace

Well, we were partially right in our previous post about the new occupants of the former, long-empty American Cupcake location on Union Street. The place is Italian, all right. But it's got much mote than ice cream on offer.

Update: Former Osha Thai Space Finally Sees Some Action

From American Cupcakes to Italian Ice Cream on Union

Something Is (Finally!) Up at American Cupcake

 

After more than a year of just...sitting there, vacant, on one of the sweetest blocks of Union Street, the space that formerly housed American Cupcake showed some signs of life today. Fresh paper went over the windows last week, and just this afternoon, the lonely awning got a fresh coat of cherry-red paint.

So, what's going in? Too soon to tell. And I can't find any deets online. Did we scoop Inside Scoop?

Gone from Chestnut: Like All of the Other We Olive Shops, Marina We Olive Is Closed

Update: The Space Formerly Known as Hime

Construction has begun on the Lombard & Pierce lot that used to house a series of doomed eateries, most notably the late, lamented experimental Japanese eatery Hime. The foundation has been poured and the wood frame is going up on...my guess is some kind of housing.