Cactus Club Cafe is on track to open Dec. 9 at 500 Boylston St. - the "Boston Legal" building - its attorney told the Boston Licensing Board this morning.

The new 325-seat restaurant is the first US outlet of a Canadian chain aimed at "magnetic people" and has nothing to do with the old Cactus Club and its former Mexican-themed menu down at the other end of Boylston, attorney Trish Farnsworth said.

The restaurant will instead focus on "bold, refined dishes with something for every craving," based on several different types of cuisines, all to be consumed surrounded by "energetic music, magnetic people, and spaces that feel as good as they look."

The restaurant won licensing-board approval in 2023 to buy the liquor license of the defunct Ashmont Grill in Dorchester. It had to appear befo

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