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Palmers at the Warwick Gets Booze License, Aims for Summer Opening

Selectmen approve transfer of unneeded VFW liquor license to new restaurant (which will have a movie theater too).

Palmers Restaurant, owned by Chef John Palmer Ingalls, won approval Wednesday night of a common victualer license and the transfer of a license from the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post to the restaurant.

The approval required a two-step process by the Board of Selectmen.

The Chaplain Lyman Rollins Post #2005 VFW at 321 West Shore Drive was granted a new All Alcoholic Beverage License, which was then transferred to the Warwick Entertainment, doing business as Palmers at the Warwick.

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The VFW held the rights to the town-issued liquor license, although it did not really need it. The post met all the requirements passed by Congress for a "War Veterans Club License."

The VFW could not hold two licenses. So it had one liquor license to sell to Palmers.

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Restaurant Could Open This Summer

Palmers will occupy 10,000 square feet and operate a movie theater and a restaurant in the new Warwick building at 123 Pleasant St. Paul Lynch, attorney for the Palmer, told the Selectmen that the interior finish out for the restaurant has been on hold until all the permits were approved. But with the approval, the restaurant can be finished and begin operations this summer, he said.

Palmers' plans have been approved by the Planning Board and the Zoning Board of Appeals, Lynch said.

The restaurant, which will also feature 32 outdoor seats in the recessed courtyard, will be open Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to midnight and on Sunday from 11 a.m. to midnight.

The theater will have 108 seats.  

In 1995 Chef Ingalls, a native of Swampscott, moved Palmers from Swampscott to Andover and founded Palmers Restaurant & Tavern. Near the center of downtown Andover at 18 Elm Street, Palmers has been a popular North Shore restaurant for a quarter century. The Andover location has a 25-year-anniversary celebration scheduled for April 19.

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