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Blue Nile Changes HandsEllana and Josef Haile of Blue Nile Restaurant pause for a photo at the JFK School on Tuesday, June 7, 2016.

Blue Nile Changes Hands

By Chris Helms on June 8, 2016
Ellana and Yosef Haile of Blue Nile Restaurant pause for a photo at the JFK School on Tuesday, June 7, 2016.
Ellana and Yosef Haile of Blue Nile Restaurant pause for a photo at the JFK School on Tuesday, June 7, 2016.

One of JP’s most popular vegan and vegetarian restaurants, Blue Nile, is changing ownership. It faces a tricky exchange to keep a beer and wine license, however.

But not much else is slated to change about the 389 Centre St. favorite. New owner Yosef Haile, brother of current owner Ellana Haile, has been managing the place for the last three years.

‘A Scottish Restaurant Needs to Have Scotch’ — Board Backs Booze for The HavenDrummer Peter Stewart and bagpipers Brian Miller and Tom Childs play in front of The Haven during the first annual "Angry Scotsman" Kilt Crawl through Jamaica Plain, Sept. 13, 2014. Participants in the event, which was a benefit for the Scots' Charitable Society and Charitable Irish Society, walked through Jamaica Plain, stopping at four local establishments; Eugene O'Neill's, James's Gate, Costello's, and The Haven.

‘A Scottish Restaurant Needs to Have Scotch’ — Board Backs Booze for The Haven

By Chris Helms on June 7, 2016
File photo: Peggy Hunter, left, of Walpole, shares a poem with Andy Sweeney, bartender at The Haven, on Sept. 18, 2014.
File photo: Peggy Hunter, left, of Walpole, shares a poem with Andy Sweeney, bartender at The Haven, on Sept. 18, 2014.

The Haven gained a neighborhood board’s support for its goal of getting a full liquor license.

JP resident Monica Salas, speaking in favor of the idea, put it simply: “A Scottish restaurant needs to have Scotch.”