First a closure, now a breakup of the team behind Eastern Standard and Island Creek Oyster Bar After a decade of partnership, the restaurant group is splitting up. By Janelle Nanos Globe Staff,Updated February 25, 2021, 4:51 p.m. Email to a Friend Diners at Row 34 in Boston on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. The restaurant group's owners have decided to end their partnership.Cody O'Loughlin/NYT The announcement last week that a trio of restaurants and bars in the Hotel Commonwealth â Eastern Standard, Island Creek Oyster Bar, and the Hawthorne â would not reopen as a result of a longstanding dispute with their landlord, UrbanMeritage, was met with heartbreak among loyal patrons. Now, the owners of the restaurant group who operated the locations, which first formed to open Island Creek Oyster Bar in 2010, have decided to part ways.