Boston-area restaurants closing: Saus, Cambridge Common, Banyan
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The CEO of Banyan Bar + Refuge officially called it quits for the Asian gastropub this week, more than a year after a kitchen fire forced it to close.
Catch up quick: The wait on insurance dragged on long after the June 2025 kitchen fire, while Rebecca Roth Gullo charted plans to expand her other business, Blackbird Doughnuts.
- "The time has come for us to focus all of our time and energy on Blackbird's growth," she wrote on Instagram. "It's an exciting next chapter, but one that comes with a great deal of emotion about what we're leaving behind."
💸 The Midway Cafe is in danger of closing.
- Owner Jay Balerna told the Boston Globe he's looking for a new owner after the landlord expressed plans to double the rent next year.
🍔 Wahlburgers closed its Fenway location last week but plans to open new locations in Nevada, California and Puerto Rico.
☕️ Daily Provisions opened its third location Wednesday, this one at 501 Boylston St. in the Back Bay.
- It'll be open 7am-9pm daily.
Newton Highlands is getting a new restaurant: Sichuan Ember plans to move into the space once home to Scafidi Bros. Market & Deli, per Boston Restaurant Talk.
- But the details are scarce (no menu or details on exactly what it will serve).
ICYMI: More closings are on the horizon.
- The Cambridge Common restaurant and its basement club the Lizzard Lounge will close next May, per WBUR.
- Middle Eastern restaurant Cafe Barada will shut down later this month, per Restaurant Talk.
- So will Saus in Union Square's Bow Market, though the owners haven't set a last day.
- Potbelly Sandwich Shop in Downtown Crossing has already closed.