Award-winning Chef Douglass Williams (of MIDA) is opening up another restaurant in Eastie, taking over the space left vacant by The Smoke Shop BBQ. Details about the restaurant's menu have yet to be shared (though spritz and oysters will probably make the cut), but its Instagram page describes the spot as "a coastal tavern with an Italian kiss."
At this sly encouragement, I order the Spirit Bomb, an Instagram-friendly coup glass filled with sake, rosemary vodka, elderflower, and lychee, and topped with a giant rosemary smoke bubble. Etiquette says: Don't you dare pop that bubble before everyone has their ring lights ready. The sweet cocktail tastes like I expect a pastel Labubu would if it were edible, but it lubricates the shift into going-out mode in this trendy neighborhood.
"Designed with extraordinary attention to detail, the residence features a double-height great room, a sculptural curved floating staircase with glass railings, and a grand foyer with an Italian marble radial inlay floor."