Hyde Park restaurant ordered shut for three days over back-room gambling

By adamg on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 3:36pm

The Boston Licensing Board today ordered Cordon Bleu on River Street to shut for three days after a police investigation showed the restaurant's main offering appeared to be an illegal lottery run out of a back office rather than food.

Board Chairwoman Nicole Murati Ferrer wanted to order a five-day suspension, but she was outvoted by members Milton Wright and Suzanne Ianella.

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Hope the horse racing

By mikka on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 7:50pm.

in that back room is still on...

So much is missing from this story

By Bob Leponge on Fri, 11/22/2013 - 4:38pm.

I'll channel my inner eeka and point out that this story really fails to convey the whole picture. What were the board chair's facial expressions as she reviewed the evidence? Was there evidence of tension between her and the other board members? How did she gesture while announcing the decision? Was she animated? Subdued?

A word of explanation

By Bob Leponge on Sat, 11/23/2013 - 1:47pm.

So it has occurred to me that if I were the board chair and reading this, which she probably is, I would be completely creeped out by miscellaneous UHub posters asking Adam to post her picture more often. There's nothing creepy afoot; here's the back story:

Another UHub poster with whom I am friendly and who happens to be a lesbian, and I, who happen to be a hetero guy, share a certain opinion: We both believe that the board chair, in addition to being smart, successful, and, according to friends of friends who know her, personable, morally upstanding, and possessed of a good sense of humor, is, in UHub parlance, "wicked attractive". Said other poster and I, with no factual basis whatsoever and no motivation other than the desire to poke fun at the other, have each put forth this claim, approximately: "Anyone with all those desirable qualities must obviously bat for my team." followed up by, approximately "I dunno, let's look at another photo and then decide."

The gag was mildly amusing but has long since run its course; I apologize to the board chair for involving her name and likeness in something that really has nothing to do with her.

The restaurant never had any

By Boston_Bloke on Fri, 11/22/2013 - 9:04pm.

The restaurant never had any customers buying food, so really, how is a shut down a penalty?
The place made its money with illegal gambling, not its kitchen.