After delaying its original 2020 opening date, a Downtown Boston food hall is finally opening its doors to the public on March 2.
High Street Place will feature 20 vendors in its 20,000 square feet space located in the shared atrium between 160 Federal St. and 100 High St. in Boston’s Financial District.
“After a trying two years, we are so thrilled to finally open the doors to High Street Place,” Lauren Johnson, manager of High Street Place, said in a press release, “We understand how much Downtown Boston and our beloved restaurant community are in need of support.”
Johnson described the food hall, which will feature vendors including Mamaleh’s Delicatessen and Blackbird Donuts, as a “culinary destination for Bostonians.”
The hall was featured on Thrillist’s list of “11 Boston Restaurant Openings to Get Excited About in 2022″ saying that while it got ahead of itself announcing the food hall’s original opening, “we can never have too many food halls, especially one that offers so many dining and drinking options.”
Three of the vendors are the brainchildren of Boston-based chef and restaurateur Tiffani Faison’s Big Heart Hospitality.
The vendors include Tenderoni’s, a 70s and 80s inspired pizza and grinder shop; Dive Bar a seafood and raw bar combining southern Gulf traditions and coastal New England favorites; and Bubble Bath, a Champagne-focused wine bar.
Faison told Eater Boston the pizza crust at Tenderoni’s will be “a mashup between Pizza hut and a really great more Sicilian-style crust” and the pies will be cooked in 3-foot-long rectangular pans so each slice sports a burnt-cheese spotted crust.
The Champagnes featured at Bubble Bath will be served alongside popcorn and hotdogs and iced in “literally a child’s baptismal that I found in an antique shop,” Faison told the online food guide.
Other vendors will include Fuji at High Street Place, cocktail bar Daiquiris & Daisies, organic cafe The Farmacy Cafe, gelateria Gorgeous Gelato, Middle Eastern street food inspired Hum’Oveh, noodle-centric Kutzu, and Newburyport Brewing.
Locally based Rockpoint Group and Rockhill Management are the team behind the project, in addition to food hall experts, CANAdev.
The hall features a green wall and a retractable window system that will allow for open-air dining in the warmer months. Customers will have their choice of seating between communal tables, banquettes, and high tops that will seat a total of 400 people with up to 84 additional outdoor seats.
Customers could also save time waiting in line for food with a multi-vendor ordering system that will allow them to order from different vendors using one device and receive a text once the different orders are ready.
In addition to food, the hall will also offer entertainment in the form of a 28 by 11-foot LED screen that will allow customers to view up to four games at once. In addition to screenings, the location will also host live music, book signings, and panels.
Design teams from Groundswell Design Group and Boston-based Gensler are responsible for turning the atrium into a food hall featuring art deco design elements and custom art.
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