A Whitey Bulger mugshot inside a Dorchester restaurant has come down following local criticism and national headlines put Savin Bar and Kitchen in the spotlight.

Owner Ken Osherow told The Boston Globe on Wednesday that the mugshot portraits of Whitey Bulger and Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi were removed from the restaurant on Oct. 27. The pictures, part of renovations the restaurant had received after being featured on Gordon Ramsay’s “Secret Service” reality TV show, faced complaints primarily from a neighborhood group who thought the decor choices were insensitive for featuring two mobsters that once wreaked terror on Boston.

Bulger and Flemmi also had a connection to the block where Savin Bar and Kitchen is now located. Eddie Connors, who ran the bar in the 1970s when it was Bu

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