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Pescatores restaurant re-emerging as 3 new brands
Veteran restaurateur Mike Murphy is proving to be something of a magician given he will reveal three new restaurants next week in a spot where last year there were just two.
After a sweeping, pricey, four-month renovation that tore Pescatores and the Oyster Bar down past the studs, Murphy will unveil three newcomers to the dining scene — Kitchen, The Commons and Raw Bar.
The three restaurants, all of them operating under the Pescatores banner, take up 6,000 square feet on the southeast corner of the Belmont Building where Pescatores, Oyster and Scala Boutique operated until the end of last year.
“We agonized over whether we would open as one restaurant,” said Murphy during a walk-through Thursday as finishing touches and paint were being applied.
The decision to split the space in three came down to Murphy’s desire to establish a fine dining restaurant downtown — Kitchen. “We couldn’t do high-end with one big space, you can’t do seafood cheap,” he said, noting with tourism rebounding and locals having few options there is a need for a new high-end dining spot.
