Doyles | 3484 Washington st | Jamaica Plain

Lrfox said:
I'm not sure what your neighborhood grocery store is, but BFresh/Stop & Shop in Davis Square is 11,000 square feet. So more than twice the size of the space right in this project and still very much a small grocery store.
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It's a privately owned, but similar small factor/urban grocer format to the BFresh concept. Big enough to cover most of my grocery needs, and small enough to slot in to a fairly crowded neighborhood. Something half its size would seem more like a large convenience store or Trader Joe's, but not a full fledged grocery store.
 
I liked Doyle's but I remain skeptical of this plan to "preserve it" which really just means keep the name.

Doyle's works because it's old, but charming in a oldschool Boston kind of way. It had a very nice pub atmosphere in it with reasonable prices. Bizarro Doyle's looks like it wants to be an upmarket gastropub with expensive cocktails and $10 beers. There's a place for that in the market and I don't fault anyone for wanting to go to such a place, but it is not Doyle's and should pick a new name and start with a fresh history.
 
Exactly. It might become a nice space and enjoyable restaurant named Doyle's, but it won't be the Doyle's we all knew and loved.
 
HenryAlan said:
Exactly. It might become a nice space and enjoyable restaurant named Doyle's, but it won't be the Doyle's we all knew and loved.
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The Utah Jazz
Indianapolis Colts
LA Lakers

It reminds me of so many sports teams names that also have no respect for the true origins of their trademarks.
 
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