The Boston Licensing Board today unanimously approved a food-serving license for El Parche, 636-638 Bennington St. in East Boston, after urging both owner Mery Pereanez-Quintana and residents to try to work to trust each other.

"I appreciate the strong feeling of the neighborhood about having a restaurant located here," as well as neighborhood distrust of Pereanez-Quintana and her promises, board Chairwoman Kathleen Joyce said.

But Joyce added that since Pereanez-Quintana had dropped her initial request for a liquor license, the board had a much lower legal bar to determine whether to grant approval for what Pereanez-Quintana vowed would be a "family" Spanish-American restaurant in her 20-seat space in what was once a beauty salon. Liquor licenses require proof of "public need," but no s

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