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The cat is leaving the building
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The South Shore broadsheet beat the Quarry to the punch for a change with word that long-time Quincy Center restaurant The Fat Cat will be calling it quits next Wednesday after a sixteen year run in Quincy Center purveying generous portions of tasty comfort food and adult libations.
Even so, Quincy Quarry News readers rely on the Quarry to exposé the story behind the story.
A City on the Move is still constipated …
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For starters, while the Fat Cat’s sixteen years long run is a good run for a restaurant — if not a great one all things duly considered, in this case the cat ultimately ended up bagged and tagged as the latest victim of Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s arguably foundering plans to spend hundreds of millions in taxpayers’ money to endeavor to redevelop long run down Quincy Center.
To whit, The Fat Cat had for twelve years operated in a cozy space on Chestnut Street between the Granite Trust Building and the headquarters of Quincy Mutual Insurance, a venue that was ideal for the Cat’s comfort food menu.
The Fat Cat’s owner also owned the building where the original cat was located.
Quincy Mutual Insurance, however, offered a deal The Fat Cat’s owner could not refuse in 2019.
Another victim of the “New Quincy Center”
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Quincy Mutual wanted the Cat’s house as well as to 86 Sully’s after eighty-four years in operation as well as to demolish other rundown buildings so as to add to its surface parking lot to create a larger site for constructing a middling rise office and residential building.
The plan included that The Fat Cat move to an empty restaurant space at 1455 Hancock Street that has seen considerable turnover over the years as transitional space and then later move into Quincy Mutual’s planned redevelopment; however, the larger project’s plans got off to a slow start and then along came the disruption of the COVID pandemic.
Further unfortunate, the transitional space was way too much for The Fat Cat’s needs.
For example, the so-called transitional location included a twice as large main dining area, a large space for private events, and an eighteen-fold larger kitchen, none of which worked for the cat’s cozy space business model.
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In any event, the new concern along Quincy Mayor and gourmand Tom Koch’s fabled restaurant row is which restaurant may next go quietly in the night.
Needless to say, the touts on Quincy Quarry’s sports desk have odds posted for players looking for a little action what with the New England Patriots tanking this season.
I loved this place. The wings and the mac n cheese are so good! I wish they would do a food truck!!