Sorriso Is Back in Brookline Village, and November Fills In Around It
October 22, 2026
October 22, 2026
Sorriso Market has reopened at 27 Harvard Street with its original owner, Nick Lisotto. He sold the shop in 2023, and he has now set it up as a place to gather more than a place to pick up a bottle. Within a few blocks of that storefront, Brookline Village's November calendar runs along similar lines. Most of it happens in small rooms, and most of it asks you to show up at a set time and take part.
When Sorriso closed its Coolidge Corner arcade outlet and then sold the Brookline Village store in 2023, Brookline.News reported that the decision had nothing to do with rent or sales. The firm that bought the shop went bankrupt in 2025. After months of legal proceedings, Lisotto had the chance to take the business back, and the parties have since settled.
He reopened in the same space with soft-opening weekends around the start of September. He also rearranged the room so it can hold community gatherings, which is the part that matters for anyone planning a fall evening nearby. The plans Brookline.News described include wine tastings that range from casual Tuesday nights to opening one-of-a-kind bottles, plus balsamic tastings and, eventually, pasta-making workshops. The art gallery is getting bigger. A private membership will open the deep cellar, where the rarest and most expensive wines sit, to serious collectors.
Here is how Lisotto described the change in that interview:
"I've shifted kind of the focus of the store to be more encompassing, as opposed to before when I sold my pasta, wine and some art. Now it's truly going to be an experience which I'm pretty excited about."
In September the shop was open Wednesday through Sunday, and the full relaunch of events and offerings was set for October. Before you plan an evening around a tasting, check the current hours and the event calendar at sorrisomarket.com or call the shop at 617-487-8337.
The shop's sale and return are the news. What matters more for an ordinary November week is the format Lisotto chose: tastings, a gallery and workshops, all meant for a room of people at the same hour. That format runs through most of what's scheduled a short walk away.
Puppet Showplace Theater at 32 Station Street runs almost every weekend in November. Its schedule has more for adults than many longtime residents may know.
The big event this month is the world premiere of Dig Down Deep: A Cave Adventure by CactusHead Puppets. It opens on Veterans Day, Wednesday, November 11, with shows at 2 and 4 p.m. It runs again on Saturday, November 14, and Sunday, November 15, at 10:30 a.m. each day. General admission for all ages is $18.50, or $14.50 for members, plus a $3 service fee. Through the theater's Card to Culture program, tickets are $3 for WIC, EBT, MassHealth and ConnectorCare cardholders. The two Wednesday shows give the holiday a firm afternoon plan.
Saturday the 14th is the clearest example of the theater serving two audiences on one day. The 10:30 a.m. Dig Down Deep show is for families. That night, the Fall Puppet Slam runs from 8 to 9:30 p.m. in the same building. It's short-form puppetry for adults and teens, and the lineup had not yet been announced on the theater's page as of this writing.
The most hands-on event of the month is on Saturday, November 7: an adult puppet-sculpting workshop from 2 to 5 p.m. That same morning, The Breakfast Show starts at 10:30. The night before, Friday, November 6, An Evening with Mr. Vernon Watercress starts at 8 p.m.
Taken together with Sorriso, these dates fill most of the month. Here they are in order, all within walking distance of the Brookline Village T stop:
None of these needs a car or a reservation weeks out, and none of them needs more than an evening. The Turtle Books reading and the library talk both run on a weekend afternoon or weeknight timetable, much like a Tuesday tasting at a wine shop around the corner.
Brookline Village's calendar sits next to two Coolidge Corner dates that are coming up. The Coolidge Corner Theatre holds its 25th Halloween Horror Marathon on Saturday, October 31, the same weekend Lisa the Wise is on Station Street. The Brookline Farmers' Market keeps its Thursday schedule in the Centre Street West parking lot behind the theater through November 19, so its last three Thursdays are November 5, 12 and 19.
The Village holds the next big date on the calendar. ArtsBrookline's Brookline Village Holiday Market is set for December 11 through 13 and December 19 through 20. Between now and then, the Village's weeknights and Saturdays already have something on most dates. If Sorriso's tastings run as Lisotto described, a weeknight bottle at 27 Harvard Street and a Saturday matinee on Station Street will be a few minutes' walk apart.
To get a feel for the month in one day, pick Saturday, November 14. Start with the 10:30 a.m. Dig Down Deep premiere if you have young kids in tow. Spend the afternoon on Harvard and Washington streets, and if Sorriso has posted a tasting or gallery hours for that weekend, stop in there. Come back to 32 Station Street at 8 p.m. for the Fall Puppet Slam. You can do all of it on foot within a few blocks, and every stop is the kind of small room where the people there are watching or doing the same thing at once.
Joan Solomont has lived in Brookline for more than three decades and follows how changes on Harvard and Station streets, like Sorriso's return, affect the homes around them. If you'd like to know what that means for a home near Brookline Village, request a complimentary market consultation.
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