The Barn Bowl and Bistro’s new takeout window will be about 15 square feet in area. But the small window had outsized implications for the commission.

Island grocer and entrepreneur Elio Silva has purchased Bobby B’s Seafood & Pizza and Bernie’s Ice Cream, adding the two Main street Vineyard Haven storefronts to his growing family of business enterprises.

The new owners of the building that houses the Red Cat Kitchen have submitted plans to demolish the downtown Oak Bluffs bungalow.

When one door closes, another opens. That, thankfully, is the story of food on the Vineyard.

Chilmark Chocolates sold its final box on Wednesday — closing the door on an Island institution that has endured as a singular business for more than three decades.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission closed a public hearing on a proposed takeout window at the Barn and Bowl Bistro in Oak Bluffs amid questions about traffic.