THE BLUE SUIT
The Mayor’s Blue Suit with Josh Resnek exchanging private conversations about life, politics, religion, economics, immorality and municipal corruption in Everett.

We met Tuesday afternoon in La Perle Restaurant and Bar on Broadway in Everett Square.
This is the former Chinese food place that existed for about
40 years.
It has undergone an extraordinary transition under the operator of the restaurant, Valery Joseph, a young Haitian woman, a mother of two young children and a longtime Everett resident who once ran a restaurant on Bow Street.
This was the first time entering her restaurant in Everett Square.
Joseph spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to rip out the old restaurant in order to create something modern, with high ceilings, a gorgeous long bar with special lighting effects, a state of the art sound system and finer tables and chairs.
The entire effect is the kind of new business Everett needs but that official Everett does not necessarily want.
La Perle specializes in Haitian food, and to be frank, I never really gave a thought to eating Haitian food…that is…until I ordered us up a few treats and tasted them, and frankly, devoured them!
“This is absolutely delicious,” the Blue Suit said to me. He held between his fat fingers a piece of fried okra – a vegetable root. Then he dipped it into a light, fresh sauce before shoving it into his mouth.
“Wow! That’s special.”
Special indeed.
The entire scene inside this restaurant is something to marvel at. It is upper tier, good looking, ice cold with fabulous air conditioning, altogether a nice atmosphere.
“You know what the licensing board did to this place almost six months ago?” I asked the Blue Suit.
“I think I heard about that,” he answered.
“Didn’t they suspend her right to have entertainment and made her shut down every night at 11?” he replied.
“You got that all right,” I said.
“It’s killed the business. At the present time, she’s going out of business,” I added.