A bar near Boston's Faneuil Hall that was shut down indefinitely by the city a year ago is returning with a name change--and the name would be the same as that of a now-closed Cambridge restaurant.
Universal Hub is reporting that Sons of Boston on Union Street is planning to reopen as Loyal Nine, with a voting agenda page within the city's website showing that a vote took place yesterday in which "Causeway Union, LLC Doing business as: Sons of Boston...has petitioned to change the d/b/a of the licensed business – From: Sons of Boston To: Loyal Nine." [Ed note: Adam of UH tells us that the Boston Licensing Board did vote in favor of the change.] An earlier article from UH mentioned that Sons of Boston was shuttered by the Licensing Board in April of 2022 as a result of a bouncer allegedly stabbing a visiting marine to death outside the place.
Neither Sons of Boston nor the proposed Loyal Nine have an ownership connection to the colonial-themed Loyal Nine restaurant in East Cambridge, which had been in operation for approximately six years until closing in 2021, and whose owners currently run Northern Spy in Canton.
[May 16 update: A check on the place over the weekend indicates that Loyal Nine is now open in the former Sons of Boston space.]
[A related post from our sister site (Boston's Hidden Restaurants): List of Restaurant Closings and Openings in the Boston Area]
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