North End restaurant ordered to take seats out of bar area
By adamg - 11/13/09 - 1:57 pm
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday ordered the owner of 5 North Square to take out the bar seats in a room where servers pick up drinks and patrons wait for tables.
The move came after complaints from some nearby residents about the restaurant's "service" bar, which is only supposed to prepare drinks for patrons eating meals, but which had a few seats at which waiting patrons could order both food and drinks from waitresses.
The restaurant had asked the board to remove the "service" restriction, but the board voted to keep that restriction in place. It also ruled waiting patrons could be served no more than one drink while waiting.
Comments
That's so incredibly lame.
That's so incredibly lame. This city is filled with people who really belong in the suburbs.
Sigh
Surely some of these carpetbaggers must have had a drink at the bar of their hometown Olive Garden while waiting for a seat after the big high school football game. That may sound like a generalization, but anyone who's lived in the North End or any urban area for more than a minute knows that restaurant bars serve the dual purpose of furnishing drinks to diners and and preparing them for waiting clinetele. There would be just as much uproar if a South End establishment DIDN'T have a front bar. That doesn't make a restaurant a "bar," it makes it a good restaurant.