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… Obviously affordable housing is a component of that.”

There’s certainly opportunity for more mixed use and multi-family development. While there’s retail there, I think there’s certainly opportunity for more. We’re hopeful that the redevelopment at the end could be the first spark in a redevelopment all along Broadway. “It’s such a large site and so underutilized. “What we see is not just the immediate benefit of jobs and economic development and new population to the Winter Hill neighborhood, in the development itself, but we feel it could be a catalyst for revival along that entire Broadway corridor,” said Benjamin. According to Adam Benjamin, development manager with Mark Development, Bow Market was an inspiration for the design, although he noted differences. The project plan is to create mixed use development, with retail and residential units. The space would be at 299 Broadway and 15 Temple Street, where a vacant Star Market and currently open Walgreens sit. While community members did express some concerns, the response to the presentation was generally positive. 8, the Land Use Committee held a public hearing to discuss the possibility of having the Winter Hill Star Market site developed by Mark Development, LLC. It was our first one in about four years,” Strutt said.The potential project, still in an early stage of planning, has benefited from community feedback “We want to expand our programming to include cooking classes and we just held our first cooking class.

Looking towards the future, Strutt hopes to hold regular cooking classes at Nibble Kitchen in order to connect Somerville residents to new cuisines. “It’s essentially a to-go restaurant, so when some restaurants with big dining rooms were super hard hit, I think Nibble was able to eschew that quite a bit,” Strutt said. Like many restaurants, it was affected by the COVID pandemic, but Stutt considers Nibble one of the lucky ones, as they weathered the pandemic fairly well. The restaurant has now been open for more than two years. “With the Carolinas, for example, we worked with them to connect them with people within the city and outside to advise them,” Strutt said. Strutt offered some details on how Nibble provides assistance to these chefs, through connections and other types of help, citing a recent example with one of their chefs. “ gives cooks an opportunity to learn about what it entails to pursue a culinary profession,” Strutt said. Moreover, the kitchen has a deeper purpose: to be a proving ground for up-and-coming chefs.Īccording to Strutt, Nibble gives these chefs a taste of what running a kitchen is like, in order to use this experience in the future. “Nibble Kitchen is a restaurant at Bow Market in Union Square which celebrates the talents of cooks and chefs from our immigrant communities,” Strutt said. According to their website, Bengali cuisine is served on Wednesdays and Fridays, Salvadoran pupusas are served on Thursdays and Saturdays and Venezuelan arepas are served on Sundays.Ĭultural Director of the Somerville Arts Council Rachel Strutt spoke on the founding of the kitchen and the reasons behind it. The peculiar aspect of the menu: each cuisine is represented on different days of the week. Currently the kitchen serves the three cuisines mentioned before from Thursday to Sunday. Sponsored by the Somerville Arts Council, the kitchen is part of an initiative to highlight immigrant communities and cuisines in Somerville. The kitchen, located at Union Square’s Bow Market, has been serving bites since September 2019. Photos by Fernando Cervantes Jrĭishes from all over the world are currently being served at Nibble Somerville, a local kitchen. Nibble Kitchen is thriving at its Bow Market location, offering international culinary treats to its patrons.