By adamg on Tue., 9/22/2015 - 11:19 am
And all it takes is for another music venue to die. Boston Restaurant Talk reports Copperfield's in the Fenway will be shutting down by year's end to make way for a Tilted Kilt, which is sort of like Hooter's, except the servers wear what look like remnants from a tartan-factory explosion, rather than T-shirts and shorts.
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Sad for Copperfights
By John Costello
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:27am
Will people from Cow Hampshire and the Worcester hills still be allowed in to start fights and act all baddddaassss cause they are in the city and have to keep their rep before / during / after Red Sox games?
How soon before Simmons / Emmanuel / Wheelock have a protest over the degrading and objectifying of womyns' bodies? I'll support them because it is another chain killing Fenway / Kenmore.
Nailed it.
By SoBo-Yuppie
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 4:35pm
Nothing screams "I don't live in Boston" like attending a Sox game or being obnoxiously loud in Red Sox gear.
Please build the next Fenway Park outside the city.
My favorite
By anon
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 5:12pm
was riding the T after a game (before was also annoying, but after was nuts.)
Everyone from the game would pile on the Green Line, not hold on to anything, and then when the train lurched to a start, yell "WHOA!" as they fell over on top of ordinary, everday Bostonians trying to go about their business.
Obviously they'd ridden the T *to* the game, they just somehow forgot how it worked in 9 innings? (Plenty of these people were visibly sober, too.)
Wonder if it will do as well
By bgl
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:28am
Wonder if it will do as well as Hooters Boston did.
Oh, yeah, that
By adamg
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:30am
Where was that? Near North Station?
Yes at the end of Friend St.
By Pete Nice
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:37am
The problem with dive bars like Copperfield's, is that they try to charge the same prices as nicer places nearby.
Hooters....
By moxie
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 12:26pm
Hooters buildng owner/developer was in a dispute with the Carpenters union at that site. Then there was an accidental fire. Go figure.
And Maybe
By John Costello
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 12:56pm
Just maybe, a quarrel with the Legitimate Businessmen's Society as well.
You can rebuild after a fire.
By Section77
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 1:01pm
Hooters made it's money when the Big Dig was in full swing. We used to have hundreds of construction workers in the area every day. When 3:30 came around they would head straight to Hooters and sip Bud Lights will staring at the wait staff. No more Big Dig, no more Hooters. Of course they were the only one in the country staffed by 35 year old ex-hairdressers from Revere and Saugus.
Kind of a bad location, too
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 1:06pm
I walked by there all the time, but I really didn't see much happening there. Even during Bruins games, it was in a kind of stranded place. Heading onto what amounted to a traffic island and having to hunt for the door probably didn't help matters. It was also a couple blocks away from the main bar zone with open and welcoming buildings spilling patrons out onto the patios and street.
If you build it
By anon
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:36am
...they will come
Typo Kilt
By Robert David Su...
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:40am
I think you mean "Tilted Kilt," but countesses in tight bodices might be popular too.
Well, they are all descended ...
By adamg
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:45am
From Mary Queen of Scots and Robert the Bruce. You know how Bostonians prize their authenticity. It's like the Earl of Sandwich on the Common, part of a chain started by a descendant of, well, the Earl of Sandwich.
Oh, OK, typo fixed!
outrageous
By Malcolm Tucker
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:42am
Besmirching Scotland like that. I cannot tell you how hard I'm clutching my pearls.
[now, if the Tilted Kilt meant that the waitstaff was all fit men, and they were wearing their kilts the traditional Scottish way, then maybe I could be persuaded to stop in for a pint.]
I know, right?
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:46am
I was hoping for mediocre food and mass market beer offset by short-kilted waiters! (oops, sorry, dropped my fork ...)
Not more boobs-n-brew.
We need more boobs-n-brew
By Pete Nice
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:52am
You can have your short-kilted waiters, I'll sit at the bar.
Don't give me ideas
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:59am
Perhaps I should open my own microbrewery and pub ... stout drinking woman that I am.
I love English syntax
By Bob Leponge
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 12:06pm
"Stout-drinking woman" : "Stout" modifies "drinking"
"Stout, drinking woman" : "Stout" modifies "woman"
"Stout drinking woman" : it's kind of up to the reader.
I'm thinking
By Sock_Puppet
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 12:13pm
One may lead to the other.
hmm
By blues_lead
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 3:29pm
stout-drinking woman = a woman who drinks stout
stout, drinking woman = a stout who is drinking a human
stout drinking woman = a a woman who drinks stoutly, or b a stout woman who drinks.
Stout drinking woman
By Dave
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:46pm
What do you drink?
Then she shoots and leaves.
As a straight dame
By Grizzly Mama
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 3:57pm
I prefer the boobs-n-brew to schweddy balls-n-brew
Don't worry
By Bob Leponge
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 3:18pm
Scotland's reputation is safe... everyone knows that no true Scotsman would .... oh, never mind.
When they hire sexy Scotsmen
By anon
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 12:29pm
When they hire sexy Scotsmen in kilts to serve us whisky, I'll give it a shot! Till then... yawn.
Went to the one in Vegas and
By Section77
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 12:43pm
Went to the one in Vegas and it was awful. They have bizarre foods on the menu I can't imagine anyone outside of the upper midwest actually eating. If you liked Applebees you will love this place. I give it a year before corporate pulls the plug.
They had lutefisk on the menu?
By anon
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 3:13pm
Can't think of any other upper midwest foods. OK, cheese curds.
Looks like..
By lbb
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 4:32pm
Looks like typical unimaginative chain restaurant pub grub. You know, mozzarella sticks and similar blerch.
Yes, I just checked on-line.
By Section77
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 4:46pm
I looked up the menu and it does look identical to every other chain pub in America. But when I went to the one in Vegas a few years ago they were trying to sell heated cold cuts sandwiches covered in mayo and sauerkraut. I remember the revulsion better than I do the actual menu.
A "reuben?"
By anon
Wed, 09/23/2015 - 8:13am
It could have been a sad attempt at a reuben.
That reminds me of a place...
By VtMac
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:29pm
What's the name of the restaurant with the goofy shit on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?
Wow, I think I've been there!
By anon
Wed, 09/23/2015 - 8:17am
I can still smell those mozzarella sticks. What is the name of that place?
Sadly,
By cornbread
Thu, 09/24/2015 - 7:33pm
that placed closed, http://www.yelp.com/biz/shenanigans-white-river-ju..., word is the owner was up to some real tomfoolery http://www.nh1.com/news/claremont-man-arrested-for...
The industry term for this kind of place is
By MC Slim JB
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 12:54pm
"breastaurant", the category grossed over $2B in the US last year, and entrants like Twin Peaks rank among the fastest-growing chains in the restaurant sector.
For a slightly more upscale version of the concept, check out pricey chain steakhouse Del Frisco's, which I've dubbed "Hooters on the Waterfront", which puts its female servers in miniskirts and fishnets. Pure class, baby.
Strega is probably a close second MC.
By Pete Nice
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 1:12pm
Those female bartenders there have no clue what they are doing (in terms of drink making).
The new Strip by Strega takes this to new heights.
By MC Slim JB
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 3:12pm
A lot of strategically-displayed silicone there. No surprise, I suppose, given the early promotional advertising: http://www.mediaite.com/online/the-most-disgusting...
ew
By Malcolm Tucker
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 4:08pm
Did you all read the article about Nick Varano from Boston Magazine earlier this year? He looks like a (horrifically groomed) sleaze in his commercials, he sounds like a sleaze in the article, and Strip is coated so thick in sleaze, it should count as a biohazard.
(N.B. I've never eaten there, or at any of his restaurants. However good the food may be, I never plan to.)
I reviewed Strega Waterfront for Stuff Magazine
By MC Slim JB
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 4:50pm
a few years ago. Short version: decent Italian-ish food (I actually liked the lobster risotto), quite overpriced, nobody can make a decent cocktail, the service is very mamma-mia-datsa-spicy-meata-balla at your table, but reverts to a broad Revere honk when they think they're out of earshot, and the decor is like an Australian's nightmare, if said Australian were Rosalie Aprile.
Varano himself worked the room regularly when I was doing my research; he is more charming in person than his ring-a-ding-swingin' advertising persona (admittedly a low bar). He's found a niche and has made a boatload of money at it, more on the strength of marketing than food, but that's a big chunk of the restaurant business. Not bad for a failed used-car salesman.
I did find that Strip marketing utterly repugnant, though, and lambasted him for it on social media. I don't imagine he lost a nickel (and therefore any sleep) over it.
Been there for lunch on the company dime
By Stray Gah
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 9:01pm
In addition to going there one (crowded) evening for drinks as I alluded to above, I also was dragged there on a business lunch on a different occasion I was expecting the absolute worst, but the food was actually decent. Extremely overpriced but as an expense-report lunch it was not bad. I was shocked.
Not to mention...
By bosguy22
Wed, 09/23/2015 - 8:39am
The tired shtick of having mob movies playing continuously in the dining room. Do people really enjoy that?
Nothings says "Food, Love and Family" quite like
By MC Slim JB
Wed, 09/23/2015 - 7:50pm
watching Moe Green get shot through the eyeball while you're tucking into your $54 filet mignon. "A salute!"
commercials
By cybah
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 5:22pm
His commercials are enough to keep me away....
Been to Seaport location
By Stray Gah
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 8:57pm
What I remember was the cocktail waitresses. With their platform heels on they appeared to be 7 feet tall. They were easy to spot when one was looking for another drink. Just look up.
Idiocracy is upon us.
By Steeve
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 1:23pm
Idiocracy is upon us.
That reminds me
By Kaz
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 2:08pm
I'm headed to Starbucks. Anyone else want go get a blow job too?
I'm dropping by Costco later
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 3:51pm
Anyone else almost out of paper clothing?
hey
By Steeve
Wed, 09/23/2015 - 10:06am
That's where I got my law degree!
A twin peaks themed
By whaler
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 1:30pm
A twin peaks themed restaurant would be awesome. I guess breastaurants love false advertising. No damn good coffee, no men in kilts, and no owls
Just little people holding out handfuls of creamed corn.
By Sally
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 2:57pm
Why is that the image I recall most vividly from that show?
It's about time!
By anon
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 1:26pm
Tilted Kilt is exceptional and so is Twin Peaks! So much better than Hooters!
ah, yes, good
By Malcolm Tucker
Tue, 09/22/2015 - 2:11pm
The breastaurant connoisseur. Tell me, O Wise One: is it the food and drink that's superior at TK and TP? The convivial atmosphere? Are the ladies lovelier and bustier? Please share your expertise; we're all agog.
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