By Paul Giorgio

On the road again. The Bolton Roadhouse has a new owner and will also be sporting a new moniker. The new owner is Anastasios Kessaris. He is renaming the restaurant, located at 544 Wattaquadock Hill Road, Fotini’s Restaurant and Bar. Kessaris also owns Linguine’s, an Italian restaurant on Northborough’s Route 20.

Not to far afield. David Fields recently joined Worcester’s Wormtown Brewery as managing partner. Wormtown is moving from its current Park Avenue location to Worcester’s Shrewsbury Street. In addition, Wormtown will dramatically increase production and have a tasting room. Fields was the former owner of Consolidated Beverages, the area’s Budwieser distributor, which he sold to Quality Beverages in the fall of 2013. Quality will be distributing Wormtown’s beer.

From jam to beer. The first Trappist brewery outside of Europe has started production of beer, which hit retail stores the last week of January. The monks at Saint Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer are rolling out bottles of Spencer Trappist Ale, brewed in a 36,000-square-foot facility on the monastery grounds. The brewery will be the ninth Trappist brewery in the world, joining Chimay, Orval and other well-known brands. Brother Isaac Keeley, who oversees brewery operations, calls Spencer’s beer a “refectory ale,” in reference to the dining hall in which the monks take their meals. The monks had help in developing their recipe. One of the monks brewed with Dann Paquette and Martha Holley-Paquette, of Pretty Things Beer & Ale Project, for two years; two monks traveled to Belgium; and Harpoon’s Dan Kenary had early input into the project. The final recipe is a beer with 6.5% ABV. Most of the ingredients in the beer ~ and there are only four of them ~ come from the United States: water from a well on the property, malted barley from New York and Willamette and Nugget hops from the West Coast. The key ingredient, Belgian yeast, comes from a family of yeasts cultured for other Trappist breweries in the middle of the 20th century.

Espresso Pizza opens second location. The wildly popular Espresso Pizza in Fitchburg just opened a second location over the bridge in Leominster.  According to owner Lynda Ferrara, the Leominster location had a soft opening at the end of December. The new location is at 272 Central St., Leominster.

Stop “wining” and go. The annual Boston Wine Expo will be held Feb. 15 and 16 at the World Trade Center. There are more than 400 exhibitors offering tasting samples from around the world. In addition, there are celebrity chef demos. Among the chefs are Ming Tsai, Mary Ann Esposito and Jody Adams. Tickets, which cost $70, can be purchased at wine-expo.cpm/boston.

It was a Divine Comedy. Our spies tell us the Shrewsbury Street’s Dante’s restaurant has closed its doors. The building is for sale or lease but can only accommodate about 10 tables.

Mezcal makes the move. After months of construction, Mezcal, owned by Niche Hospitality, has made the move to its new digs opposite the DCU Center. The restaurant has tripled its space.