Cisco Brewers one step closer to opening restaurant, beer garden near Fenway Park
Red Sox fans could be getting a new spot for pre- and post-game brewskis this summer.
Nantucket-based brewery Cisco Brewers won zoning approval last week to open an indoor beer hall and outdoor beer garden on Boylston Street just behind Fenway Park. The converted gas station location was occupied by Tasty Burger until 2022, when it moved around the corner to Van Ness Street, and then housed Our Fathers Deli for a short time.
Cisco plans to operate a restaurant year-round and a seasonal beer garden from April to October. Both spaces will also host live entertainment.
Boston’s Zoning Board of Appeal approved the brewery’s plan at its Feb. 25 meeting. The plan still must be approved by the Boston Licensing Board, Cisco attorney Dennis Quilty said at the meeting.
Some local residents appeared at the zoning hearing to complain about potential noise issues.
“This is going to be a problem for us,” Maura Zlody, who lives a block away on Jersey Street, said at the meeting. “We are bombarded enough by sound.”
Live entertainment will end by 8 p.m. and the sound system will be designed to steer noise away from residential buildings in the area, Quilty said at the meeting.
“This is a spot that has been a restaurant and used for this purpose for many, many years, and we fully believe we can operate safely and carefully in the neighborhood,” Quilty said.
The neighborhood already hosts a taproom and outdoor beer garden run by Trillium Brewers on Park Drive.
Founded in 1995, Cisco sells a half dozen types of beer in cans and operates seasonal outdoor beer gardens in Boston’s Seaport neighborhood and in New Bedford, along with its year-round location on Nantucket.
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