The namesake Boston restaurant of Red Sox Nation president and NESN color analyst Jerry Remy abruptly closed Tuesday — a month before baseball season opens — but other locations appear to be thriving.
Jerry Remy's Sports Bar & Grill debuted in the shadow of Fenway Park in March 2010 after a $5 million build-out and later added a large roof deck.
The Fenway location is co-owned by Remy and John O'Rourke. Remy declined comment yesterday, and O'Rourke did not return calls.
The other Remy's restaurants in Boston's Seaport District, at Logan International Airport and in Fall River, have different owners and operate under licensing agreements. They remained open yesterday, and all three owners said they're doing well.
"I was just told they closed the (Boston) restaurant and would revamp it for two weeks to modernize," said Anthony Cordeiro, co-owner of Remy's in Fall River.
NESV Real Estate LLC, a sister company of the Red Sox, owns the Boylston Street property where the Fenway Remy's is located and is its landlord.
"Our understanding is that the current operators have ceased operations," Red Sox spokesman Kevin Gregg said, "and we cannot speculate on their plans or future uses of the site."
But the restaurant's website, Facebook and Twitter accounts gave no indication that the restaurant had closed, and the website was still allowing customers to make reservations.
Neither Remy nor O'Rourke were restaurateurs. Their managing partner, John Mascia, had the restaurant experience but left in August.
The eatery, Mascia said, was challenged by a decline in business in the Red Sox off-season. Even veteran chef/restaurateur Michael Schlow failed to make a go of it in the Fenway, where his Barrio Cantina closed in 2014 after replacing his Happy's Bar + Kitchen, which opened in 2012.
August was also when Cordeiro and co-owner Larry Couto took over day-to-day operations of the Fall River Remy's, in which the former Sox second-baseman and O'Rourke still are partners, Cordeiro said.
"Let's just say it was time for us to control our own future," he said. "It's in our building, and we have our vision, and we plan on keeping Jerry Remy's in Fall River."
Jon Cronin, of the Cronin Group LLC, was an original investor in the Fenway Remy's and has 100 percent ownership of the Remy's in the Seaport District, which he says is thriving.
"Business is up 10 percent year-over-year," Cronin said. "Even with this bad winter, we've had great business."
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