By DONNA KENNY KIRWAN

PAWTUCKET — Another city eatery has earned the privilege of selling beer and wine after the City Council's recent lifting of a ban on restricted liquor licenses.

At the June 10 meeting of the City Council's Board of License Commissioners, the Village Restaurant at 200 Main St. was issued a Class B license. The restaurant, which features West African cuisine, can now sell beer and wine to its patrons.
Additionally, the board approved an additional request from the owner to have three tables outside on the sidewalk.
Owner Toyin Wilcox, who opened the restaurant last fall,  had previously told city officials that she needed to be able to sell beer and wine to her lunch and dinner customers in order to increase business. 
She pointed to the fact that customers would often come in to the restaurant and then be disappointed to find they could not order an alcoholic drink with their meal.
At the public hearing on Wednesday, no one spoke in opposition to the request, and the Board of License Commissioners approved the license with the stipulations that a change of hours be approved by the City Council and all alcoholic beverages be served in plastic cups.
Earlier this month, the board approved Class B license requests for Rosa's Restaurant at 757 Main St. and La Arepa at 574 Smithfield Ave, allowing both eateries to serve beer and wine.
A similar request has been made by Las Margaritas Restaurant at 200 Mineral Spring Ave., but a public hearing that had been scheduled for Wednesday night was continued to June 24.
Additionally, the board approved several temporary requests from various venues and organizations to to serve alcoholic beverages outside in the coming weeks.
The board granted permission to the owners of the Triple P at 435 York Ave. to serve alcoholic beverages and have a band or DJ play throughout the day in the parking lot on Friday, July 3 and Saturday, July 18 from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. It was stipulated that a Pawtucket Police officer be hired for crowd control and that no one may leave the area with alcohol.
In addition, the owner of the Galway Bay Irish Pub at 156-158 South Bend St. was given permission to serve food and alcoholic beverages in the parking lot on Friday, July 3 and Tuesday, July 21, beginning at 2 p.m. and ending at 11 p.m. The board stipulated that the entire area is temporarily fenced in, only one entrance is used, a maximum of 100 people are allowed in the patio area, no one may leave the area with alcohol and a Pawtucket Police officer is hired for crowd control.
Also approved was a request by the owners of Fidjos DiDjabraba, 682 Roosevelt Ave., to serve alcoholic beverages in the parking lot at the annual St. John's Festival to be held on Saturdays, June 20, and 27, July 25, and Sunday, July 26 from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Stipulations include that a detail police officer be on duty from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., drinks are to be served in plastic cups, there are appropriate  dumpsters for rubbish and that the area be kept clean.
A petition from the Colombian American Cultural Society Inc. was also granted, allowing for beer and wine to be sold at a festival in the Slater Mill parking lot, 67 Roosevelt Ave., on Sunday, July 26 from 12 p.m. until 7 p.m.