Last week South Bay welcomed its newest eatery to the fold as The Pearl, a locally owned and community-rooted seafood restaurant, celebrated its grand opening following months of pandemic-related delays. Prior to the onset of Covid, the eatery had been slated for an opening in the winter of 2019; some sixteen months later, the ownership team is finally seeing its vision
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Shore Leave renounces tiki concept, Dorchester gets a new seafood spot, and the Union Square Farmers Market returns
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By Kara Baskin Globe Correspondent,Updated May 13, 2021, 1:47 p.m.
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Shore Leave (11 William E. Mullins Way), which opened as a tiki bar in 2018, reopened on May 1 with a reframed concept.
âThe tiki concept is problematic because it promoted the fetishization of the colonization of the Pacific Islands,â says partner Ryan Lotz. âIt relies on a variety of things that were taken from a group of people without their consent.â
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After more than two years in the making, raw bar and grilled seafood spot The Pearl made its Dorchester debut on Wednesday.
Located at the South Bay shopping center, The Pearl showcases an abundance of bi-valves, crab legs, and seafood towers, alongside classic seafood plates like crispy calamari, shrimp scampi, lobster macaroni and cheese, and cold and warm lobster rolls.
Luther Pinckney who co-owns The Pearl with his wife, Teda DeRosa-Pinckney, and family friends, Mika and Malik Winder said the restaurant’s specialty is its char-grilled oysters, which are topped with garlic parmesan butter.
“One of our managing partners, Malik Winder, has an excellent grilled oyster recipe,” Pinckney told Boston.com. “It’s unique to us in the city. It’s something he’s been working on for about six years or so and has gone through a couple different iterations.”