Boston’s North End Restaurants Balk at $7,500 Outdoor-Dining Fee
North End restaurant owners speak to the media outside Terramia Ristorante in Boston, on March 29.
Photographer: Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe/Getty Images
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Boston’s historic North End restaurant owners are fuming over Mayor Michelle Wu’s plan to charge a $7,500 fee for outdoor dining operations.
A group of 20 restaurateurs in the neighborhood famous for its Italian food hired a lawyer and sent a written ultimatum to Wu to drop the fee or face legal action, according to according to two restaurant owners involved in the ultimatum.