Hopkinton's Carbone's Restaurant Stays Open For A Bit Longer

HOPKINTON, MA — A beloved Hopkinton restaurant will keep its doors open for a bit longer after residents thought it was closing.

Carbone's Restaurant has been a Hopkinton staple for 87 years, so when the owners announced its closure in September, the community was reeling. The Carbone family, the owners of the Italian-American restaurant, hoped to sell the restaurant to new owners within a few months but never set a hard date on the closure.

On the Friday after Thanksgiving, the restaurant posted on its Facebook page that it would "remain open Mondays-Saturdays 4-9 p.m. for safely distanced dining and takeout." Community members rushed the comments, asking if this meant Carbone's Restaurant was here to stay, but owners replied, "Ideally we would like to sell the restaurant as a restaurant in order to facilitate this we must remain open. Stay tuned!"

Located at 280 Cedar Street, the property consists of 12 acres of land next to the Hopkinton State Park. The restaurant first opened in 1933 and was originally named "The Good Fellows Club" and managed by Edward Carbone. In the beginning the restaurant had just two employees and grew to its current 90 employees.

The restaurant had been in the Carbone family for generations.