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Bars, billiard parlor in East Boston's Central Square could have hours cut back over closing-time problems

By adamg - 6/5/18 - 3:53 pm

The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday whether to roll back closing time from 2 a.m. to 1 a.m. for Bohemios and Billares Colombia on Bennington Street and La Gran Manzana, Central Square, after a hearing today at which A-7 Capt. Kelley McCormick and Sgt. Tlaloc Cutroneo testified they are fed up with babysitting an area that for two hours every night fills up with drinkers stumbling around, getting into fights, getting mugged, urinating in a parking lot and just generally causing a ruckus that is a headache for residents of the dense area. Read more.

Bouncer bitten, smacked in head with pole by woman upset she and pal couldn't scam a meal at city's only 24/7 diner

By adamg - 6/5/18 - 3:04 pm

While the rest of Boston is busy earning its reputation as the City that Always Sleeps overnight, patrons at the South Street Diner on Kneeland Street get their bill when they're served their food. It helps owner Sol Sidell turn over the seats in the small eatery and prevents dine-and-dashing. Read more.

Pair hope to open elegant new restaurant on Blue Hill Avenue in a few weeks

By adamg - 5/30/18 - 5:06 pm
Front of building

Building is getting spiffed up inside and out.

UPDATE: They got both a food and liquor license.

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to grant a food-serving license to a proposed 240-seat restaurant that would serve barbecue, steaks and even some vegetarian dishes on Blue Hill Avenue where it meets Harvard Street and Talbot Avenue. Read more.

Wine an untapped market in Boston, Back Bay eatery says

By adamg - 5/29/18 - 11:50 am

When the Earls Kitchen and Bar chain decided to open an outlet in Boston, they stocked the bar with two sets of taps, one for draught beer, the other for wine. Read more.

Brighton market gets in trouble after somebody drops a dime on a tweet

By adamg - 5/29/18 - 11:20 am

On March 28, the owners of Quality Market, 150 North Beacon St., learned it's illegal to transport more than 20 gallons of adult beverages in your own vehicle after somebody alerted BPD to the above tweet and two detectives decided to conduct a snap inspection. Read more.

As summer approaches, police try to make Mattapan Square less nippy

By adamg - 5/22/18 - 2:18 pm

Boston Police say they're determined to end problems by daytime drinkers congregating outside Mattapan Square liquor stores downing the nips and single cans of beer they've just bought, and are now about a month into a crackdown that they say so far is working. Read more.

Boston board apologizes to New York grandmother, future son-in-law for attack at Brighton pizza joint

By adamg - 5/22/18 - 1:54 pm

Agoros Bar and Grill on Chestnut Hill Avenue shut down in February, so there may be little the Boston Licensing Board can do to punish it for a fight last fall that left a 75-year-old grandmother on the floor, bleeding from her mouth and her daughter's boyfriend needing 12 stitches. Read more.

Men behaving badly: Women get punched at Back Bay club, Dorchester lodge

By adamg - 5/15/18 - 1:20 pm

A man went up to a table where two women and a man were sitting at Storyville, 90 Exeter St., on the night Feb. 8 and asked one of the women to dance. She refused and the guy responded by punching her in the mouth three times and then ran out, police told the Boston Licensing Board today. Read more.

Three East Boston nightspots could have their closing time rolled back due to ongoing problems

By adamg - 5/15/18 - 12:55 pm

The Boston Licensing Board is considering rolling back closing time at La Gran Manzana in Central Square and Bohemios and Billares Colombia on Bennington Street from 2 a.m. to 1 a.m. because of repeated problems, including fights, car crashes and OUI arrests in the hour before they now close. Read more.

No more reggae Thursdays at Theater District club; owner says crowds just too unruly at closing

By adamg - 5/15/18 - 12:20 pm

A February fight that ended with one woman grabbing another in a chokehold and repeatedly punching her at closing time outside CandiBar on Warrenton Street is one of three incidents that prompted owner Charles Delpidio to end a weekly reggae night after just ten weeks. Read more.

Guy looking for trouble found it at a South Boston bar, where he smashed a beer bottle into a man's head

By adamg - 5/8/18 - 12:35 pm

A man who tried to break up an argument between his friends and a hulking stranger at Croke Park needed 30 stitches after the guy smashed a beer bottle into the left side of his head, police and the bar's owner told the Boston Licensing Board this morning. Read more.

Man thrown through bar window suffered minor injuries; woman standing inside required major surgery

By adamg - 5/8/18 - 12:08 pm

A man who came under attack by a group of other men outside West End Johnnies, 138 Portland St., was thrown through a bar window into the bar shortly before 2 a.m. on Jan. 28, a Boston Police detective and the bar's attorney said today. Read more.

Target gets in trouble for way it tried to stave off trouble from underage college students looking to buy beer

By adamg - 5/8/18 - 11:53 am

A week after it got a three-day liquor suspension for letting young'uns buy beer, the Target at 1345 Boylston St. was back before the Boston Licensing Board, this time after BPD detectives found a security guard out of uniform and packing a very visible gun with an expired Boston firearms ID card - and without first notifying the city he would be on duty as required. Read more.

Dumbass who wouldn't leave a group of women alone at a Roxbury bar gets chased out by them

By adamg - 5/8/18 - 11:32 am

Boston Police say a man who tried talking to a group of women at Slade's - and who began verbally abusing them when they ignored him - wound up being escorted out of the bar by a bouncer, and chased by the women, who decided to give him a taste of his own medicine. Read more.

If you rip your shirt off in a bar and vow to take care of the people you were arguing with, best to make sure they don't have reinforcements

By adamg - 5/1/18 - 12:20 pm

A man who ripped his shirt off as he was being escorted out of a Theater District club and vowed to take care of the guys he'd been arguing with waited around outside - only to find himself beaten to the ground and stomped when they were joined by more men, in an attack that ended only after police sprayed the scrum with pepper spray twice. Read more.

Brighton could get its first legal BYOB restaurant

By adamg - 4/30/18 - 10:28 am

A sushi place in Brighton Center goes before the Boston Licensing Board on Wednesday for permission to let customers bring in their own wine and beer. Read more.

Forest Hills taco place with Mexican breakfasts could open next month

By adamg - 4/18/18 - 10:52 am

Margaret Pimentel is all set to open her Achilitos Taqueria, in the new building at 38 Hyde Park Ave., where YMAA used to be, but both the mayor's office and the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council asked the Boston Licensing Board today to defer action on her request for a food-serving license until after she can meet with the council to discuss her proposal. Read more.

Angry Californian mistakes another man's concern for gay pickup attempt, punches him in the face

By adamg - 4/17/18 - 11:43 am

A man who walked into a Convention Center hotel bar with his shirt covered in a red liquid one February night punched another patron hard enough to knock out one of his teeth and break his nose and the bone around one eye, police say. Read more.

Man tries exercising his white privilege in fight with police outside a bar; loses

By adamg - 4/17/18 - 11:24 am

The guy was just not doing well at West End Johnnies on Super Bowl Sunday: The Patriots had lost, the bar wanted him to leave because he'd had too much to drink and then the cops showed up when he refused to leave. Read more.

Odds of finding guy who stabbed three men at South Boston Burger King not very good, police say

By adamg - 4/17/18 - 11:03 am

An investigation into a triple stabbing at the Burger King at 280 West Broadway on Feb 5 has reached a dead end because none of the victims - two of whom initially said they knew their stabber, with whom they'd started an argument - want to cooperate with police, Sgt. Det. Kenneth O'Brien told the Boston Licensing Board at a hearing today. Read more.

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