Tag: Bars, Businesses, & Restaurants

A family eatery for 50 years at the same corner moves its menu and its silo to a new location in 2021

A former industrial building converted to a Benny’s department store and then converted to a strip mall

These three restaurants are a gateway to memories of mid-century immigrant restaurants and their impact on our taste buds.

A comfortable old man bar for young people during the early 2000s

Three-generations of neighborhood short-order cooks made this tiny place a home for regulars over the course of 50 years

A four-story apartment building with first floor cast-iron store fronts has a rich 150 years of history

A local scooter sales and repair shop with a side of delicious expresso drinks

A family-run diner serving homemade classics to residents and students on the East Side for just about 80 years

“That very Rhode Island, deliberately shabby den of loud music, cheap beer and all kinds of people”

One of two remaining Sterling Streamliner diners manufactured in the late 1930s by the J.B. Judkins Company left in the country

A tiny former boiler house becomes a popular bar with a large cultural impact on Providence’s waterfront

A two-story industrial building used mainly as a nightclub in recent years flies under the radar in the Jewelry District — a hotbed of new development

A small commercial building surrounded by parking lots razed for an 800 car parking garage for Johnson & Wales University

A former floating gourmet restaurant moored on South Water Street just outside where the Hot Club is today, before the current boat slips

A former downtown bar forced to move after the building was razed for a hotel that was never built

A two-unit commercial strip once home to a 100-year-old bakery business is razed in Wayland Square