From the archives (1983): Jeveli’s adds new dining room.

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Update 11/27/2022: The iconic restaurant closes as it completes an auction of its equipment. Closing a chapter on the city’s oldest Italian Restaurant.

Update 11/9: According to several sources Jeveli’s is only going into winter hibernation. 

Posters at the East Boston Open Discussion Group over at Facebook report that landmark Jeveli’s Restaurant in Day Square will close on Tuesday, November 10.  Here’s some ad copy I wrote for an ad in the East Boston Community News in January 1983.  I worked there as a teenager in various jobs; I learned a lot from the late Ted Jeveli. 

Another local institution almost felled by COVID19.