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Tavern in the Square gets another one-day suspension for not calling police after an argument that may have turned into a fight
By adamg on Mon, 05/20/2013 - 1:01pm
The Boston Licensing Board last week ordered Tavern in the Square on Brighton Avenue to shut for a day for not calling police after a March 16 incident in which a man may or may not have had a beer bottle thrown at his face, along with anti-gay slurs.
One of the victim's companions and a bar manager differed as to whether physical violence accompanied a loud argument at the bar that night, of the sort that sent the victim to get nine stitches in his face. Board Chairwoman Nicole Murati Ferrer expressed her puzzlement over the fact that something had happened and yet nobody at the bar thought to call police.
Last month, the board ordered a similar penalty after bar workers failed to call police after a brawl in January that involved both punching and a chair being thrown.
The bar can appeal the punishment to the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission.
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Like the Overlook Hotel
That space is cursed. I bet if you put a monastery at 161 Brighton Ave, the cops would still have to show up 4 times a month to break up drunken shenanigans.
Much like the Curse of the Bambino
That's simply a myth. There are two good logical reasons for the inability of Tavern in the Square to stay out of trouble:
1) Law of averages. That bar has a capacity of several hundred and is the largest in the neighborhood. The more people you let in, the more belligerent people you let in. Simple ratios.
2) As I said last week, my colleague, a manager at the Allston bar I work in, has made the point that the door manager seems to hire employees for the door that are brash and confrontational with customers, which incites anger in the more drunken patrons that eventually can and does manifest itself into fights among parties.
It's not a "curse" that makes a location bad, it's the people. It's always the people. Remember, this is a bar that had a manager who was brought into court for having child pornography on his personal computer.
Will is Right
But he forgot 3) the kind of entertainment you put on.
Tavern has the same problem as the clubs downtown, because it's catering to the same customers albeit with a slightly different vibe and draw. Bringing in local Rap and R&B DJ’s with local crews and liquor up the crowd of locals like any other watering hole, and you have a problem. This is a city, and locals still have their turf wars.
It seems to be the only way they fill that place at that location.
Why is this Tavern different from all other Taverns?
This is a chain operation, yet I never hear of them having any of these problems in Porter Square, Central Square, or elsewhere. Only here.
They don't allow rap anymore
Even their trivia hosts can't play it at 8 PM on Tue/Wed. Welcome back to 1994, TitS!
Cursed??
Nothing's cursed about that space. You insert macro-bar after macro-bar into any space in Allston, and you're going to get trashy folks doing trashy things.
Ultimately, the place's longevity will depend on the management's ability to deal with bullshit. This doesn't exactly give much confidence.
I once heard...
...a burly doorguy say "go (expletive) yourself" to a customer outside the bar once. What the circumstances were, I don't know, but that's not typically how one in the hospitality industry talks to a person in front of their establishment. Those are the kind of people that Tavern in the Square hires.
Hey!
Let's go hang at the place where the staff are abusive and obnoxious!It's awesome being abused and sworn at by management and staff with attitudes! I wanna give them my money!
OK, Cool!!
Big City
is just as big. No issues there. White Tavern too.
Is that other sports bar still down the road?
Big City, RIP
It's gone, or has been rebranded anyway, as Patron's Mexican Kitchen & Watering Hole.
http://www.allstonsfinest.com/welcome/index.php?op...
Sports Depot is long gone too
Now a Regina.
seems pretty simple
"Board Chairwoman Nicole Murati Ferrer expressed her puzzlement over the fact that something had happened and yet nobody at the bar thought to call police."
1A.) Don't call the police
1B.) Maybe you get called in to explain yourself to the board, maybe you don't.
2A.) Call the police
2B.) Get called in to explain yourself to the board
(The above does not apply to Fenway or the Garden, unless somehow fights no longer break out at the above places)
Unlike Drivers
Bars aren't allowed to get away with the "didn't know whut happened" excuse.
Fights at the Garden or Fenway??
Haha! That brings me back. So glad we put an end to that business.
Adam
I'm not quite picturing what her expressing her puzzlement looks like. Maybe some sort of illustration would help?
Really.
Otherwise we might as well be listening to this on the radio.