Hospitality

Renee Diaz, founder of popular Worcester bakery The Queen’s Cups, is side-stepping into party planning, launching a second business aimed at organizing and coordinating smaller, more intimate events. 

Brew City Grill & Brew House on Shrewsbury Street in Worcester has temporarily closed, with ownership citing increased COVID-19 cases and restaurant capacity restrictions.

The family that's long run Leo's Ristorante has sold the site of its restaurant off Shrewsbury Street and an adjacent mixed-use building for a combined more than $3.3 million, though the restaurant will remain open..

Making good on a warning issued months ago, the organization that represents most of the state's marijuana retailers is suing the Cannabis Control Commission to invalidate the new regulations that create a separate category of businesses allowed to deliver non-medical marijuana directly to consumers.

A new American Basketball Association team making Worcester its home beginning this year will be named both after the city and one of its own. 

Freshly restocked with three new members, the Cannabis Control Commission is gearing up for a year that will include the implementation of recently-approved regulations that allow for home delivery of non-medical marijuana, continuing to press for legislation that Beacon Hill mostly ignored last session, and possibly even another round of regulatory revisions.

Attorney General Maura Healey has named Ava Callender Concepcion to the Cannabis Control Commission, replacing Commissioner Britte McBride and filling the otherwise vacant public safety seat on the board, Healey’s office announced Tuesday.

Mayflower Medicinals, a cannabis company with a medical-only dispensary in Allston and a cultivation and manufacturing facility in Holliston, opened its doors to adult-use customers in Worcester on Dec. 10.

When the COVID-19 pandemic began, Alexis Kelleher’s business Crust Bakeshop took the same hits as other small businesses, particularly in the hospitality industry.

Cannabis is coming to Southbridge, but with a decidedly veterans-focused approach.