Quincy licensing board approves series of one-day liquor permits and restaurant license changes

The Quincy Licensing Board on May 27 approved six licensing requests and accepted minutes from its May 13 hearing.

The board granted one-day liquor permits for Porchfest Quincy on June 28 and for the Wollaston Hill Neighborhood Association’s Saturdays in the Park series in Safford Park in September. The board also approved a one-day liquor permit for a ticketed, 21-and-over relaunch event at Van Coffee Bar (May 31), a change-of-ownership common victualler (CV) license application for Linda Banh Mi LLC doing business as Banh Mi Boston, a change from wine-and-malt to all-alcohol for Olindy’s Quincy Ave Lanes, and a new all-alcohol restaurant license for Mirchi Nation at 13 Scammell Street.

Porchfest organizer Walter Hubley told the board the festival will run from 2 to 8 p.m. on June 28, shortening the event by an hour from prior years "primarily because on some overcast days it can get...wicked dark." Hubley said the event footprint will remain largely the same — Wollaston Hill, Squantum and Merrymount neighborhoods — with possible small expansion toward Forbes Hill, and that vendors and porta-potty locations are largely similar to previous years.

Hubley’s remarks preceded a motion by a board member to approve the request; the motion was seconded and the board voted in the…