ORDER-2016-46 : Application of Elisabetta Auciello for a Common Victualler License: Sonnys Fire and Wood LLC. dba Wood and Fire at 35-37 Essex Street, Melrose, MA

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▶ 1:31 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: two zero one six dash four six it's an application of lisbetta ocello for a common victual license for sunny's fire and wood llc doing business as wood and fire at 3537 essex street in melrose

▶ 1:49 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: and we do have the applicant motion to suspend the rules second alderman inferno inferno god it's

▶ 1:59 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: just been a week motions to suspend the rules seconded by alderman Boisselle i thought maybe alderman medeiros beat you to it but she didn't uh all in favor of suspending the rules aye aye opposed so uh would the applicants like to come forward

▶ 2:19 Speaker 2: and please uh introduce yourselves hi i'm elizabeth osiel this is my husband joseph hi good evening we are trying to open up next door for wood and fire um it's a brick oven pizza it's going to be kind of higher end um we're going to have appetizers salads we apply for beer and

▶ 2:40 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: fine it does appear as though your application is in order you have your insurance you have it signed off by all of the necessary municipal authorities anybody on the committee have any questions Alderman Medeiros thank you

▶ 2:57 Monica C. Medeiros: thank you welcome have you done any restaurants my husband had a restaurant

▶ 3:06 Speaker 3: I had a restaurant for 10 years in Allenton, and I decided to just go up a little bigger place. So, that's my next goal in life.

▶ 3:16 Speaker 4: We're looking forward to it. Thank you. Thank you.

▶ 3:20 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: Would you like to tell us your hours of operation

▶ 3:24 Speaker 5: and when you think you might be opening?

▶ 3:26 Speaker 3: Right now, we plan on doing Monday through Saturday, 11 to nine on Monday through Thursday, and Friday, Saturday through 10 o'clock.

▶ 3:36 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: Okay, and you have applied for your beer and wine license? Yes, ma'am. Correct, okay.

▶ 3:44 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: Any further questions from non-committee, Alderman Mortimer?

▶ 3:47 Peter D. Mortimer: Thank you very much. Since we have a little bit of time before we have our quarter of eight start, I don't feel bad about filling a little air time with some interesting banter with the applicants.

▶ 3:54 Peter D. Mortimer: Do you have any relatives in Melrose? There's an Arcelo who lives on our first street. No relation? No. No relation whatsoever?

▶ 4:04 Speaker 6: I'm going to judge whether the answer's interesting or not.

▶ 4:07 Speaker 7: You'll be the judge of that? You're going to judge what's interesting or not? The peanut gallery from President Kahn there.

▶ 4:12 Peter D. Mortimer: This restaurant that you're proposing to open is in the ward I represent, ward six. We're really happy to have you aboard. Thank you. Are you going to use oak in the fire? Are you actually going to have a fire?

▶ 4:26 Speaker 3: All kill and dry, all from me and the . It's wood specially dried just for ovens. The company we deal with actually do restaurants, they do a lot of restaurants in Boston and so forth.

▶ 4:37 Peter D. Mortimer: Yeah, so is it oak? You put the oak into the oven first? I think it is oak, yeah. Yeah, well that burns the hottest. Yes.

▶ 4:46 Speaker 3: Yeah. The oven reaches 900 degrees. Right. So pizza's cooked in about 90 seconds.

▶ 4:51 Peter D. Mortimer: Well speaking of 900 degrees, you anticipated my next question, which is do you have the infrared gun that shoots the red laser beam inside? And then you know when the oven has reached the temperature of 900 degrees.

▶ 5:04 Speaker 3: Exactly. It shoots like a little red laser.

▶ 5:06 Peter D. Mortimer: Right. Yep. Just like the laser pens, but except it tells you with this end what the temperature inside the oven is. Exactly. And that works very well. Yes, it does. Yeah. And then it makes the pizza. Here comes some free advertising for you. That makes the pizza taste great because you have the smoky oak taste. Exactly. Like oak barrels that they have for certain beverages that make it taste better. Yep. And then you have the oak, and the smell of that oak smoke gets into the pizza, and it is heavenly. It's going to taste divine. Anybody who's out there listening in TV land from MTV here, MMTV, not MTV, should make sure they get to taste this kind of pizza because it's delightful. It's very, very good. Thank you. I wish you the best with your restaurant. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. I'm sure you're going to do great. Thank you. Are you going to have caprese salads? Yes, we are. Excellent. Excellent, that's all I have, Madam Chairman.

▶ 6:02 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: Very enlightening, thank you. You're welcome.

▶ 6:04 Speaker 3: Not the hire for marketing.

▶ 6:07 Speaker 5: Alderman Boisselle.

▶ 6:09 Robert A. Boisselle: Thank you, Madam Chairman. Welcome to Melrose and good luck in your opening. And I'd just like to tell Mr. or the Alderman Mortimer that Ward 6 is on the south side of Essex Street. And the north side where the restaurant is in Ward 4. Just to make that clear and distinct in that aspect of it.

▶ 6:32 Speaker 6: So you must be Ward 4. I'm Ward 4.

▶ 6:34 Speaker 5: No territorial fights here now, gentlemen.

▶ 6:38 Speaker 8: Motion to recommend.

▶ 6:40 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: Second. Alderman Boizot, motions to recommend, seconded by Alderman Medeiros. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? You're all set. And once again, you are at 35-37 Essex Street, which is pretty much across the street from Shaw's, right? And we look forward to your grand opening.

▶ 6:59 Speaker 3: thank you thank you very much i'd like to invite you all to the open house as well so it's a way to reach out to you guys you can follow me on my facebook page although you don't want to open houses and you can and your facebook page is what it's wooden fire got uh just wooden fire i think so yeah i think it's just wooden fire very good thank you right