Soon to open Boston restaurants

Last week Eater Boston shared the details on 25 restaurants that are planning to open this fall in Greater Boston in their post, The Boston Restaurant Opening Guide, Fall 2015.

For those of you who don’t want to read the long post here are some highlights. Two restaurants in the South End will open (both interestingly enough are Italian). The first is The Aquitaine Group’s newest restaurant, La Motta’s which is described as “Bronx-style” Italian-American restaurant.  La Motta has a mid-September target opening and will be in the space formerly known as Union.  The second restaurant, SRV (Serene Republic of Venice), describes themselves as a wine bar on the FB page. This restaurant comes from Coda Group and targets an October opening on Columbus Ave near Mass Ave.

What is missing from EaterBoston’s list and which I had fully expected to see is news that Charlie’s Sandwich Shoppe’s reopening. After serving the South End for nearly 90 years the owners closed their neighborhood restaurant.  Weeks after that announcement last summer news came that the owner of Stella had purchased the space and planned to remodel and upgrade the space before reopening under the same name.  There has been painfully little news since then. Anyone aware of what is going on or when this too may re-open in the South End?