This news of the estate sale comes on the heels of the news that the City of Boston filed a lawsuit against the chef over unpaid taxes.

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Best Rate Cleanouts + Estate Sales announced on Monday that an estate sale will be held on Saturday at celebrity chef and Southie native Barbara Lynch’s Gloucester home from 9am-2pm.

Back in November, a lawsuit was filed in Suffolk Superior Court that claims Lynch owes $589,430 in back taxes at No. 9 Park and $156,188 at B&G Oysters that date back to 2011; $515,107 at Menton and $134,714 at Drink that have gone unpaid since 2015; $148,269 at the Butcher Shop unpaid since 2013; $124,995 at Sportello that date back to 2012; and $8,003 in taxes at Stir that have accrued since 2017.  

The city has requested to file a temporary restraining order against Lynch to preserve assets with the goal of ensuring that should a sale of the restaurants go through, any back taxes would be paid.

Earlier this year, she closed Menton, Sportello, and Drink and announced she would sell the Butcher Shop and Stir. The Rudder in Gloucester, Lynch’s first new restaurant in more than a decade, also closed in October after opening in 2023. Lynch also announced that her remaining restaurants—only No. 9 Park and B&G Oysters—would close at the end of the year.

Lynch said via statement regarding the closures, “I am very proud of what I have achieved over three decades, creating these much-loved entities where so many of you chose to celebrate your special occasions. The harsh realities of the global pandemic and the many difficulties faced calls for significant investment, which neither myself nor my fellow shareholders are positioned to do.”

Considered a driving force in the restaurant industry, Lynch put Boston on the map with her James Beard award-winning restaurant No. 9 Park.

How to participate in the sale via website:

Sign-up sheets are started by the first person who arrives at the property (not us). If you start a Sign-Up Sheet we recommend you stay & not leave, otherwise you run the risk of your list being taken down by the next person who shows up. Numbers are given out between 7:00am – 7:30am (when we arrive).

If a Sign-Up Sheet has been started please make sure you put your name on it and make sure are present to get your number. We open the doors at 9:00am (no earlier).

Let us know if you go.