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Thirsty South Station commuters could be about to get another alcohol option
By adamg on Wed, 03/18/2015 - 10:56am
The operators of the Tavern in the Square outpost in South Station want to add a second food and drink outlet: A Mexican restaurant.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let Tavern in the Square's three owners buy the liquor license from the soon to be demolished Brighton Beer Garden so they can open Tavitas inside the station. The new restaurant would have 47 seats inside with another 21 seats in the station concourse.
Their attorney, Karen Simao said the station has had "a significant need" for a place where commuters could sooth their jangled nerves since the closing two years ago of Clarke's.
In addition to voting on the license transfer, the board will also decide whether to approve a proposed 2 a.m. closing time.
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I miss that Charlie's. That
I miss that Charlie's. That was a good spot and am surprised it sat vacant for so long.
Nooo, Tavern in the square
Nooo, Tavern in the square expansion confounds me since the few i have been to are generic in atmosphere with almost Remy level bad food and high prices.
New restaurant, not an expansion
Sorry if I was too vague: They're talking about a new space, not simply adding onto the existing TitS.
Nice
Nice acronym... ;)
New facility?
Do they need BRA approval for a new TitS?
The Olive Garden of Mexican restaurants
I can't imagine Tavern on the Square coming up with anything resembling good. This is bound to be horrible.
I'd settle for a 99 in there.
I'd settle for a 99 in there. Hell with going to Charlestown for some outer 128 charm
Does
Keolis own a share of this bar? The later the trains, the more money gets spent at the bar.
Great Idea
The more booze the better to calm the nerves of troubled T Riders.
Whelp, with the way things
Whelp, with the way things are going with the commuter rail lately, I'd say that a bar would be a pretty sound investment..... IF you could pay the bribe for the liquor licence that is
More floor space consumed
So, as it is, passengers crowd the end of the platform in bad weather, blocking others from getting top their trains at rush hour, and the space inside is being steadily consumed by retail. Passengers squeeze and navigate narrow streams of moving people to get to where they need to go.
Can you see the train board easily? Or the clock?
People also crowd the end of the platform because you cannot see the train board but the monitors outside are visible.
It is exceptionally poor design.
Never mind the full frontal advertising blitzes and the two Jumbotrons.
South Station is somewhere I like to avoid now, not a place to wait for a train.
But heck, monetizing the EFF YOU SEE KAY out of the place is called good management these days.
I have the same concerns that you have, when I heard about this.
but I read the proposed restaurant is going in the space where Clarks used to be.
I do agree, however, that the management of South Station has forgotten that folks actually wait for trains there. Because there less and less space to wait inside where you will not be in someones way as they rush to their train, a lot of folks wait on the outside platforms, which creates the clusterf*&k, and impedes the flow of folks trying to get on (and off of) their trains.
That along with the blinding glare from the two jumbotrons...ugh. Not a very pleasant place, I agree. At least they turned down/off the volume of the same.