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Northshore October 2025
Gloucester's new eatery The Burn Tavern just opened for business this June, but to tell the story of this months old eatery, we need to start at least 26 years ago. In 1999, Maria Seniti-Figurido got a job as a hostess at the Franklin Cafe, the Cape Ann outpost of a popular Boston restaurant that had opened in downtown Gloucester just a few months earlier. Soon, the Gloucester native worked her way up to assistant manager, then general manager. Then, in 2008, the owners decided to sell, and Seniti-Figurido made the leap from employee to full-time restaurateur. Her goal was to continue the well-loved eatery’s track record of serving u
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