East Boston Oysters founder Alexis Cervasio muscles into the grocery game, championing working moms
The pop-up impresario opens a storefront later this year with a mission to give employees better work-life balance.
By Kara Baskin Globe Correspondent,Updated May 11, 2021, 10:00 a.m.
Email to a Friend
Alexis Cervasio runs East Boston Oysters and plans to open a grocery store in the neighborhood soon.Handout
Alexis Cervasio, 35, grew up pushing slush carts on the Freedom Trail. As an adult, she hosted pop-ups with East Boston Oysters, throwing shellfish soirees in secret locations (disclosed 24 hours before party time) and staging shucking classes throughout the city. She launched the business to make her own hours as a new mom to her son, Giacomo, now 11.
On 27 June 1963, the Freedom of Wexford was conferred upon the thirty-fifth President of the United States.
At Redmond Place, along the quayside in Wexford town, ‘a special platform had been dressed in the national colours of America and Ireland’ for the occasion and ‘from its four corners the Stars and Stripes and Tricolour made a brave display in the seaside breeze’.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was ‘obviously moved’ as he leaned forward to sign the Roll of Freemen, making him only the thirteenth freeman of the ancient Irish borough. To ‘a tumult of cheering,’ the Mayor of Wexford, Councillor Thomas Byrne, handed the roll, placed in a silver casket, to the United States President.
On Monday afternoon East Boston resident Ben Downing is inside Mi Pueblito Restaurant in Orient Heights Square picking up some tacos for lunch.
“The chicken jalapeno here is also really good,” Downing tells me as he pays for his lunch.
It’s been a busy morning for the Western Mass native that served 10 years as a State Senator from Pittsfield before stepping down in 2017 to work full-time in renewable energy.
Downing has been on the phone all morning tapping into his network of supporters, potential donors, friends and family.
On Monday morning, Downing released a video announcing he is formally entering the 2022 race for Governor of Massachusetts.
Former State Senator Ben Downing Announces Candidacy for Governor
On Monday afternoon East Boston resident Ben Downing is inside Mi Pueblito Restaurant in Orient Heights Square picking up some tacos for lunch.
“The chicken jalapeno here is also really good,” Downing tells me as he pays for his lunch.
It’s been a busy morning for the Western Mass native that served 10 years as a State Senator from Pittsfield before stepping down in 2017 to work full-time in renewable energy.
Downing has been on the phone all morning tapping into his network of supporters, potential donors, friends and family.
On Monday morning, Downing released a video announcing he is formally entering the 2022 race for Governor of Massachusetts.