All three Soup Sergeant locations (Spring Garden, Quinpool and in the Bedford Place Mall) are apparently toast, but the Spring Garden storefront will soon have a welcome new tenant—Turkish restaurant Cafe Istanbul, the venture of Erkut Surmeli, the former owner of Turkish Delight and Anatolia. Learn more next week…Tux store The Model Shop (6169 Quinpool) will close March 1. All its rental items will transfer to Dartmouth sister store Always & Forever Bridal (145 Main Street); the retail stuff’s (cufflinks, ties, and more) on sale for 50 percent off. Wedding enthusiasts, get moving: discount formal wear is the swankiest formal wear…Local brewing institution Alexander Keith’s will launch its newest beer, the Traditional Lager, exclusively in Nova Scotia on March 1. Spring break! Woo!
This article appears in Feb 28 – Mar 5, 2008.