The Globe’s Deirdre Fernandes has the latest details on the plans by the owners of the Rox Diner to open a restaurant at the former Bakers’ Best location in Newton Highlands (a story we first told you about on Village 14 on Dec. 11).
A few highlights..
Unlike the pair’s other restaurants in West Roxbury and Newtonville, Rox Café will have a bar area and market section, where customers can buy takeout food, in addition to its restaurant seating. The menu will be narrower but also more experimental, [co-onwer John] Fortin said.
Rox Café will serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but “with a little more finesse,” Fortin said.
and this..
Since Rox Café will initially retain the same seating area as Bakers’ Best, the restaurant won’t have to conduct parking studies or apply for special permits before opening.
I see the Rox owners are promising that the Highland’s operation will have more “finesse” than the other two locations. Actually, that’s expected here. We do everything with a bit more finesse
I was not a fan of Bakers Best and their offensive prices. I am really excited to try Rox. I need to get on that.
Very excited about this and glad to see the short timeline. It says something about the village structure in Newton, that it can make economic sense to have a Rox Cafe just one village over from the Rox Diner.