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Article: Their motto: Grow or die ; Lyons Group expands its food-and-fun empire
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 13, 2009
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DEDHAM - Sampling the menu recently at his newest venture,
Patrick Lyons called the chefs out of the kitchen to tell them the
wings were too wet, the potstickers were too dry, and the mound of
slaw with the cheeseburger spring rolls was too big.
Attention to detail has served Lyons well in his three decades in
the nightlife and restaurant businesses, during which time he has
dreamed up a stream of diverse concepts, from Kings bowling alleys
to the Axis/Avalon club complex to the Newbury Street celebrity
haunt Sonsie.
All told, he is involved in 26 venues, and despite a recession
that has others scaling back, Lyons Group opened a pub on Lansdowne
Street in the spring and a Kings bowling ...