Category Archives: Restaurants

Jimmy’s Cafe, the longtime American bistro at 151 Linden St., in Wellesley, is closing on Jan. 31. The cozy restaurant, started in 1988 according to the restaurant website, was acquired a few years back by Navart and Bedros Kaya, who gussied up the menu and expanded hours, including for a Sunday brunch. The BYOB establishment [...]

Jin’s Fine Asian Cuisine & Sushi Bar has opened at 11 Washington St., in Wellesley, at the former location of Bobby’s Grille. The menu features a wide variety of dishes and prices, with soups starting at $3 and with the top of the line being filet mignon for about $23 and a Love Boat of [...]

Wellesley’s Blue Ginger and Alta Strada have cracked Boston Magazine’s list of 50 Best Restaurants featured in the November issue of the magazine (and appearing in full in on the website later this month). The PR pitch from Boston Magazine to highlight the Wellesley winners: Wellesley’s own Blue Ginger was included in this year’s list. [...]

Jin’s will be the name of the new Asian Cuisine and Sushi Bar restaurant that takes over the old Bobby’s Grille space at 11-13 Washington St. in Lower Falls. The property has a Coming Soon sign in the window now, according to a reader who emailed us. The Wellesley Board of Selectmen recently approved a [...]

Boloco, a fast-growing burritos restaurant based out of Boston, hopes to open in Wellesley by next spring. Company CEO John Pepper tells CitybizlistBoston that it plans to add 6 restaurants between now and the end of next year, including 1 each in Waltham and Wellesley (exact location unclear but most likely in Wellesley Square near [...]

Wellesley Selectmen later this month will weigh whether to dole out a license to Asian Wellesley LLC for a 100-seat restaurant in Lower Falls at 11 Washington St., formerly Bobby’s Grille. This according to the Wellesley Townsman. Separately, the board again rejected a bid for Justine’s restaurant (per the Patch) to open at 978 Worcester [...]

The Cottage restaurant, which opened in Wellesley’s Linden Square three years ago, is now branching into the Chestnut Hill Shopping Center at 47 Boylston St., starting Memorial Day weekend. Owners John and Laura Wolfe — he from La Jolla, Calif., she from Wellesley — also have their original restaurant in La Jolla. Like the first [...]

We don’t have a lot for you on this, but a reader was asking if anything was going on with efforts to re-start the Tian Fu restaurant at another location in Wellesley. The longtime Chinese restaurant closed last October after being unable to renew its lease. The former restaurant location in the space now being [...]

We decided to let the two newest eateries in Wellesley Square  — Old School Pizzeria and J.P. Licks — work out whatever kinks they might have at the outset and visit them a week or so after their official openings. We hit Old School, located at 552 Washington St., at around 7pm on Tuesday, hunkering [...]

Justine’s Restaurant, a proposed eatery to be located in Wellesley next to the Dunkin’ Donuts on Rte. 9 east/978 Worcester St., has filed an application for a common victualler license with the Board of Selectmen. Justine’s applied for a license last summer as well, but it looked as though the plan might have fallen through [...]