Harpoon to open beer garden next to Mercantile Center
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Harpoon's proposed beer garden will be located along a pedestrian walkway next to The Mercantile restaurant.
Harpoon Brewery, based in Boston, will open a beer garden this May in downtown Worcester along Mercantile Plaza, a pedestrian walkway next to the newly opened rooftop bar, The Mercantile.
The Harpoon Worcester Beer Garden will be operated by Reunion Tap & Table, an American-fare restaurant based in North Grafton, according to Harpoon’s website. The beer garden, open Thursday through Sunday during the summer, will offer craft beer, cocktails, and a snack menu, as well as live music.
The Worcester Telegram & Gazette first reported the story.
Harpoon has breweries in Boston and Windsor, Vt. It’s not the first time the brewery has connected with Worcester; Harpoon’s parent company Mass. Bay Brewing Co. partnered with Polar Beverages in 2019 to launch the hard seltzer Arctic Chill.
All seating at the beer garden is outside, located on a pedestrian walkway along The Mercantile Center, a 640,000-square-foot office and retail development project by Chip Norton, manager of Wellesley-based Franklin Realty Advisors LLC. Norton’s latest accomplishment was the completion of a 500-seat rooftop restaurant, The Mercantile, which sold for $5.6 million on May 4. The Mercantile would overlook the beer garden.
Harpoon created a Facebook page for the Worcester beer garden on April 27 and on Tuesday posted it is now hiring.
On Monday, UMass Memorial Health’s COVID-19 testing site at 201 Commercial St., around the corner from the beer garden’s proposed location, was moved to 100 Front St., Patch Worcester reported. The Front Street site is owned by Norton, as well.
Harpoon’s proposal would mark the second beer garden around Worcester Common, located two blocks from the Worcester Beer Garden on Franklin Street, which is operated by Grid Hospitality Group and reopens for the season on Wednesday.
Harpoon will go before the Worcester License Commission on Thursday for final approval and has a target opening date of May 26, according to the commission's agenda.
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