The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday unanimously approved plans by Exodus Bagels to add sit-down seating to its bagel bakery at 2 McCraw St. off Belgrade Avenue.
Plans by owners Adam Hirsh and Priscilla Andrade show roughly a dozen tables, along with a service counter. Exodus briefly had a retail outlet at Washington and Green streets in Jamaica Plain, which closed as the pandemic struck, but currently sells bagels and shmears through a take-out window on the side of its Roslindale facility.
They needed board approval to operate a restaurant in a “neighborhood business” zone and to offer take out at that restaurant. Their hearing lasted just a bit longer than it takes to slice open a bagel and slather on some cream cheese – board members asked no questions and nobody spoke in opposition.
Next up will be obtaining a food-serving license from the Boston Licensing Board.
Currently, the closest sit-down bagel place to Roslindale is the Bruegger’s outlet on VFW Parkway in West Roxbury, which recently returned some of the tables and chairs it had removed due to the pandemic.
Watch the hearing: