The meal tax would charge an excise of .75 per cent on the sale of meals at restaurants in town, adding onto the existing 6.25 per cent state sales tax.
With summer in high gear, residents and tourists alike have a host of new places on the Island to eat this season. Six new restaurants have opened in the down-Island towns, all of them from familiar faces on the Vineyard cooking scene.
Chef Ting is moving into the former Bombay Indian Cuisine in Oak Bluffs with plans to expand her catering business and help strengthen the Black cooking community on Martha's Vineyard.
Theresa Manning, the co-owner of Cliffhangers Aquinnah, said she is renovating the Vineyard Haven restaurant as her team prepares to open a year-round eatery called Quitsa Kitchen.
The Oak Bluffs select board rejected the Healey Square restaurant’s plans to expand its outdoor seating this week, capping debate that has been going on since April.
The select board Tuesday voted to hold a special town meeting on June 25 at 7 p.m. at the Oak Bluffs Elementary School to reauthorize two borrowing articles that were approved at the 2022 annual town meeting.
