Last Tuesday's ruling that restaurants and bars in Massachusetts could only offer takeout and/or delivery resulted in many places in the Boston area and beyond deciding to try to-go options even if they had never focused on it previously, while others made the decision to not bother at all, instead closing for the time being. Now we are seeing that some shuffling is starting to take place as to which dining spots are deciding what to do.
According to several sources, a number of restaurants in the region are shutting down their takeout/delivery options after trying it for a few days (and effectively shutting down the restaurants for now), with a couple of examples including a tweet from Angelinas Italian Restaurant in Tewksbury saying that "It is with a very heavy heart that we have decided to close today due to the coronavirus" while an article from Universal Hub says that Porter Cafe in West Roxbury mentions that "last night was its final night of takeout service until after conditions improve." Meanwhile, other restaurants that had supposedly closed operations temporarily last week are now giving takeout and/or delivery a try, including Posto in Somerville saying that they opened "for a trial run of take-out & delivery" yesterday and Foundry in Somerville mentioning that "we're launching our 'FOUNDRY TO GO' takeout/curbside pickup!"
The restaurant situation remain so fluid that it is very difficult to know from one minute to the next which places are open and which are not; a Twitter list including hundreds of restaurants is one way to check the latest status of various dining spots, with the link being accessed here:
Twitter List of Boston-Area Restaurants
If you are a restaurant owner or worker and would like your place to be included in the list above, please let us know via one of the following Twitter pages:
@hiddenboston or @MarcHurBoston
[A related post from our sister site (Boston's Hidden Restaurants): List of Restaurant Closings and Openings in the Boston Area]
