Green Bistro Bringing 189 Seats to Brookline Village

An empty space in Brookline Village is going to be filled up, and will be bringing farm-fresh food straight to your plate. 

Tuesday night, the Selectmen approved a liquor license for 202 Washington Street, soon to be Green Bistro--formerly a space used by Brigham and Women's Hospital. The restaurant is expected to have 189 seats and will be an affordable restaurant for the whole family, Attorney Robert Allen said that their concept is American cuisine, "farm to fork."

Manager and owner Kevin Riordan, a Brookline resident, Harvard graduate and fiction writer, is hoping to make a success of the space. They hope to have a similar experience to the nearby : Brookline locals opening a restaurant close to home.

Boston Restaurant Talk blog says that the coming establishment will have a restaurant and take-out on the main floor, an upstairs events and function space, and a market in the basement. They plan to offer valet parking.

While they are developing design plans now, the first floor is currently expected to be handicap accessible, but the events floor may not be. 

Allen added that it's very rare for a restaurant of this size, without parking spaces, to have no opposition. However, no one was present to speak against the liquor license.