Abby Park delivers creative local fresh dishes and well done comfort food in a comfortable yet upscale space. The restaurant opened in August after a total renovation and now offers an expansive bar, beautiful dining room and intimate private room on the lower level for small gatherings.

Judging by the size of the crowds at Abby Park, you’d guess the locals had been starving for fine dining—or any dining at all. You’d be right.

Family owned and operated Harvard Square Indian staple Bombay Club is closing its doors on Oct. 25 to relocate to the South End, taking up residence at the 1415 Washington Street space soon to be vacated by Pho Republique as early as mid-November.

Sure, Vinod Kapoor likes to eat. But it wasn’t food that drew him into the restaurant business. “I was fascinated with the idea of meeting new people every day,” Kapoor said.

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With the help of his wife and recipe designer Shikha Kapoor, who has been in the restaurant business since 1972, Vinod hopes to set new standards and further popularize affordable Indian cuisine. “You know how we are, the trend-setters,” Kapoor said.

Harvard Square’s Bombay Club, which has been serving Indian food on JFK St. for 18 years, will move to the South End in early November due to declining sales and a financial dispute with a landlord who has tried to evict Bombay Club in the past.

Abby Park Owner Vance Welch pictured with Gov. Patrick

Diner for a Day Julia Lisinski takes us inside a brand-new restaurant in Milton, Massachusetts and called Abby Park “a phenomenal place. If I had three, I’d give them three (thumbs up).”

Rainy skies did not dampen spirits around the Hub yesterday, with scores of talented disabled athletes convening at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Roxbury to compete in the 15th annual Toward Independent Living and Learning Games, a local offshoot of the Special Olympics.

Two hundred people will head to the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Roxbury tomorrow for the 15th annual TILL Games, which bring together athletes with and without disabilities to compete.

Joshua Olson is grateful for the care he receives as a developmentally disabled individual and for the chance he will have tonight to offer a helping hand at My Brother’s Table in Lynn.

Abby Park in East Milton Square has a problem most restaurants would love to have – lines of people hungry to try out the brand-new eatery, which opened last month. We visited Abby Park, which specializes in modern American cuisine, on a Tuesday night and never even thought about getting a reservation. Who needs a reservation that early in the week, in the middle of summer? Well, we could have used one. There was a line from the time we arrived, at about 6:30, until we left after 8.

The secret to Abby Park’s success as an upscale eatery launched in the middle of the recession just might be as simple as a liquor license.

When the newly opened Abby Park restaurant in Milton prepared to add lunch service this week, it announced the news on its Twitter page. The restaurant just opened this month and already has 149 people following its “tweets,” the 140-character messages that are the standard mode of communication on Twitter.

Hundreds attended an opening-night party at Abby Park Restaurant in East Milton Square.

Linda Palmer is really into history. In fact, she wraps herself up in it. Dressed in 17th Century attire, the local historical interpreter transforms into Ann Vassall, an Englishwoman who was one of the first to settle in the American colonies, and leads historical walking tours of Boston.

Barring a late reprieve, the Westwood Respite Center will shut down after this weekend – no longer providing fun for developmentally disabled adults and much-needed caregiving breaks for their families. The center is a victim of the poor economy and state budget cuts.

The Westwood Respite Center will close its doors next weekend, leaving 68 families of adults with developmental problems without their home away from home.